NMC Recordings featuring the works of Anthony POWERS   ~   Bernard RANDS   ~   Colin RILEY   ~   Jeremy Dale ROBERTS   ~   Edwin ROXBURGH   ~   Nicholas SACKMAN   ~   David SAWER Anthony POWERS (b. 1953)__________________NMC D021S Anthony Powers & David Matthews       CD SINGLE Anthony POWERS The Memory Room David MATTHEWS Piano Sonata Op.47 William Howard, piano 'Howard's playing throughout the disc is, as you might imagine, faultless' The Musical Times 'I enjoyed encountering The Memory Room… veering unpredictably between moments of Lisztian sparkle, Beethoven-like muscularity, nightclub jazziness and private meditation… and David Matthews's Piano Sonata… knottily motivic and propulsively rhythmic' Classic CD Bernard RANDS (b. 1934)____________________NMC D253 Chains Like The Sea Danza Petrifi cada • Cello Concero • Chains Like The Sea Johannes Moser, cello • BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Clark Rundell, conductor< More Information Colin RILEY ()____________________________NMC D241 Shenanigans Three Movements • Lyric Pieces • Shenanigans • As The Tender Twilight Covers Tom Lessels, clarinet • Kate Halsall, piano/keyboard • Genevieve Wilkins, percussion • Nicola Summerscales, alto flute • Samantha Wickramasingh,e violin • Jessica Beeston, viola • Rebecca Hepplewhite, cello • Celine Saout, harp • Matthew Schellhorn, piano< More Information Jeremy Dale ROBERTS (b. 1934)_____________NMC D151 Trista • Croquis The Kreutzer Quartet Pete Sheppard Skærved, violin - Morgan Goff, viola Neil Heyde, cello - Aaron Shorr, piano More Information Edwin ROXBURGH (b. 1937)__________________NMC D132 Reflets dans la glace: sound adventures for piano Arabesques • Homage to Debussy • Introduction • Labyrinth • Les Miroirs de Miro • Piano Sonata • Prelude • Six Etudes • Toccata • Two Pieces • Reflets dans la glace Waka Hasegawa and Joseph Tong • Thalia Myers • Hiroaki Takenouchi • Peter O'Hagan • Sally Mays • Karl Lutchmayer • George King • James Young, piano Edwin ROXBURGH (b. 1937)_________________NMC D119 Saturn Clarinet Concerto • Saturn Linda Merrick, clarinet • Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra • Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra • Peter Stork, Edwin Roxburgh, conductors 'Saturn is an epic orchestral and electronic space-scape, effortlessly blending Roxburgh's understanding of Boulez and Stockhausen with a Birtwistle-like sense of ritual. An orbiting soprano saxophone beams down ideas to an orchestral underlay dominated by clattering percussion and mind-expanding electronics; this is an extraordinarily ballsy mission undertaken by HCYO' The Wire Edwin ROXBURGH (b. 1937)_________________NMC D161 Solos and Duos Soliloquy 3 (Sulki Yu, violin) • Flute Music with an Accompaniment (Michael Cox, flute; Nigel Clayton piano) • Soliloquy 2 (Dimitri Murrath, viola) • At the still point of the turning world (Edwin Roxburgh, oboe; Lawrence Casserley, electronics) • Soliloquy 4 (Marie McLeod, cello) • Aube: a ballet for dancer and percussion (Nicholas Reed, percussion) • Duologue for David (Hsin-Yun Huang & Dimitri Murrath, violas) More Information Edward RUSHTON (b. 1937)_________________NMC D146 The Shops a comic opera (libretto by Dagny Gioulami) The Opera Group • Patrick Bailey, conductor • Darren Abrahams, tenor • Anna Dennis, soprano • Phyllis Cannan, contralto • Richard Burkhard, baritone • Louise Mott, mezzo-soprano • Paul Reeves, bass More Information Nicholas SACKMAN (b. 1950)________________NMC D027S Hawthorn       CD SINGLE BBC Symphony Orchestra • Andrew Davis, conductor 'A compelling musical argument: there are long, sinuous melodies, which worm their way out of the orchestral textures… massive threatening climaxes and a central slow movement of delicately coloured washes' The Guardian 'That elusive and unpackageable quality, integrity… you can hear it shining through in this beautifully paced, haunting evocation of a modern Yorkshire folk-tale' BBC Music Magazine David SAWER (b. 1961)____________________NMC D028S Byrnan Wood       CD SINGLE BBC Symphony Orchestra • Andrew Davis, conductor 'Sawer's writing is full of vivid ideas and crisp shapes; the whole piece has a machine-like inevitability about it that generates real physical excitement, and it is well caught in the BBC Symphony's performance under Andrew Davis' The Guardian 'This NMC recording makes available what turns out to be one of the best works premiered at the Proms this decade' BBC Music Magazine David SAWER (b. 1961)____________________NMC D020S David Sawer & Vic Hoyland       CD SINGLE David SAWER The Melancholy of Departure Vic HOYLAND The Other Side of the Air Rolf Hind, piano 'Rolf Hind's response [is] comprehensively sensual: grimly enduring vicious whiplash chords while stupendously in control of the most glassy pianissimos' The Musical Times David SAWER (b 1961)____________________NMC D116 From Morning to Midnight From Morning to Midnight: Symphonic Suite • the greatest happiness principle • The Memory of Water • Tiroirs BCMG • Susanna Malkki, conductor • BBC Symphony Orchestra • Martyn Brabbins, conductor 'Shows the unfailing originality and distinctiveness of everything David Sawer composes. The chamber orchestral Tiroirs is a sequence of razor-sharp images, each perfectly scored and imagined, and shuffled with a conjuror's virtuosity' The Guardian David SAWER (b 1961)____________________NMC D251 Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin Suite • Cat's Eye • April/March • Between Birmingham Contemporary Music Gropup (BCMG) • Martin Brabbins, conductor • Anne Denholm, harp More Information NMC Recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading, P.O.Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone (03) 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile (03) 9444 6879