London Sinfonietta Label: New Music Show
Autumn 2012 sees the release of a CD of new commissions from some of the most exciting emerging composers of our time, including a selection of works generated through the Writing the Future scheme, captured live in concert at the first two New Music Shows (29 May and 5 November 2011).
1. Martin Suckling Candlebird*
2. Edmund Finnis Veneer, for viola and reverb
3. Isambard Khroustaliov Zoetrope
4. Tim Hodgkinson The Glow and Zig-Zag, for horn
5. Shiva Feshareki Valentine’s Rhapsody
6. Duncan MacLeod Diesis, for double bass and live electronics
Leigh Melrose baritone*
Nicholas Collon conductor*
Paul Silverthorne viola
Michael Thompson horn
Enno Senft double bass
Sound Intermedia live electronics
London Sinfonietta
Click here to listen to an extract from Martin Suckling's Candlebird.
Humet: Niwa
A selection of chamber music by the Spanish composer Ramon Humet, recorded by the London Sinfonietta at Watford Colosseum in January 2012, and released on Neu Records on 6 September 2012.
'Ramon Humet's music is delicate and subtle, with high poetic imagination. Humet is a hope for the future; he has a fine ear, and a spirit full of light.' Jonathan Harvey
1-10. Quatre Jardins Zen
11-21. Jardin de Haikus
22-25. Petals
London Sinfonietta
Nicholas Collon conductor
Thomas Adès: In Seven Days
London Sinfonietta's second release on Signum features one of the most exciting artistic collaborations of recent years - Thomas Adès' music combines with visuals by Tal Rosner in a spectacular work for piano and orchestra inspired by the Hebrew story of creation. Recorded live in concert at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 11 March 2011 under the baton of the composer.
1-7. In Seven Days for piano and orchestra with moving image
Nicolas Hodges piano
Thomas Adès conductor
Tal Rosner visuals
London Sinfonietta
8-9. Nancarrow Studies Nos.6 & 7 (Conlon Nancarrow, arr. Adès)
Thomas Adès and Rolf Hind pianos
Tal Rosner and Sophie Clements visuals
CD+DVD package now available to purchase from Signum Records.
Jonathan Harvey: Bird Concerto with Pianosong
Bird Concerto with Pianosong, recorded live in concert at the Warsaw Autumn Festival 2009, is Jonathan Harvey's sparkling hommage to Messiaen. It is complemented on the first disc in NMC's new London Sinfonietta series by three shorter electroacoustic compositions recorded live at the Sonic Explorations festival in 2010.
1. Bird Concerto with Pianosong
Hidéki Nagano piano
David Atherton conductor
London Sinfonietta
2. Ricercare una Melodia for oboe
3. Other Presences
4. Ricercare una Melodia for cello
Gareth Hulse oboe
Paul Archibald trumpet
Tim Gill cello
Sound Intermedia live electronics
Louis Andriessen: Anaïs Nin/De Staat
The first recording in the London Sinfonietta's new partnership with Signum features the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen's Anaïs Nin, a monodrama exploring the life of the eponymous diarist, plus a performance of the iconic De Staat. Recorded live in concert on 14 April 2011 at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
1 - 9. Anais Nin
Cristina Zavalloni soprano
London Sinfonietta
10 - 13. De Staat
London Sinfonietta
Synergy Vocals
Sound Intermedia sound projection
David Atherton conductor
Micachu & the Shapes and London Sinfonietta: Chopped and Screwed
Rising stars of experimental pop Micachu & the Shapes collaborate with London Sinfonietta on Rough Trade's first ever classical release. 'Chopped and Screwed' was recorded in front of a live audience at Kings Place on 1 May 2010.
1. State of N.Y.
2. Unlucky
3. Everything
4. Average
5. Freaks
6. Medicine Drank
7. Low Dogg
8. Fall
9. Not So Sure
Click to read just one of the many reviews provoked by this innovative release.
The collaboration was performed again at Southbank Centre on 5 April 2011 - click here to read a review
London Sinfonietta Label: The Jerwood Series 6
A colourful tribute to the imagination and creative talent that exists in British music today, celebrating three of the works commissioned to mark the occasion of the ensemble's 40th birthday in 2008.
1. James Olsen Chameleon Concerto
2. Christian Mason In time entwined, in space enlaced
3. Larry Goves Springtime
4. Claudia Molitor untitled 40 [desk life]
5. Kenneth Hesketh Detail from the Record
Clio Gould violin
Rolf Hind piano
Juliet Fraser soprano
David Porcelijn conductor
Baldur Brönnimann conductor
Oliver Knussen conductor
London Sinfonietta Label: The Jerwood Series 5
New music from Anna Meredith, Emily Hall and Ian Vine that draws inspiration from beyond the classical sphere - including the bassoon as you've never heard it before!
1. Ian Vine ocre oscuro
2. Emily Hall Think about space
3. Anna Meredith axeman
4. Anna Meredith flak
Richard Baker conductor
Nicholas Kok conductor
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
John Orford bassoon
London Sinfonietta Label: The Jerwood Series 4
A disc of new music commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, including the winner of the 2006 RPS Award for Chamber-Scale composition: Richard Causton's Phoenix
1. William Attwood Iwwer Tiermen
2 - 7 Joanna Bailie Five Famous Adagios
8. Richard Causton Sleep
9 - 10 Richard Causton Phoenix
Nicholas Kok conductor
Sebastian Bell flute
London Sinfonietta Label: The Jerwood Series 3
A CD featuring Jonathan Cole's meditative Testament - a tribute to Sue Knussen; Ben Foskett's intense, dramatic Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Clio Gould; and Luke Bedford's setting of medieval poems on the art of music, Or voit tout en aventure, with soprano Claire Booth.
1. Jonathan Cole Testament
2. Ben Foskett Violin Concerto
3 - 8. Luke Bedford Or voit tout en aventure
Claire Booth soprano
Clio Gould violin
Oliver Knussen conductor
London Sinfonietta Label: The Jerwood Series 2
In the second of the London Sinfonietta's Jerwood Foundation-sponsored showcase for young composers, Morgan Hayes' Dark Room for clarinet and ensemble is coupled with Jonny Greenwood's Smear, featuring two ondes martenots, and Dai Fujikura's Fifth Station.
1. Morgan Hayes Dark Room
2. Jonny Greenwood smear
3. Dai Fujikura Fifth Station
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Mark van de Wiel clarinet
Valerie Hartmann-Claverie ondes martenot
Bruno Perrault ondes martenot
Louise Hopkins cello
London Sinfonietta Label: The Jerwood Series 1
Tansy Davies' energetic neon and Stuart MacRae's jazzy trumpet showpiece, interact feature on the first of the London Sinfonietta's Jerwood Foundation-sponsored showcase for young composers.
1. Tansy Davies neon
2. Stuart MacRae Interact
HK Gruber conductor
David Porcelijn conductor
John Wallace trumpet
Snapshots: Fiftieth Birthday tributes for Oliver Knussen
13 musical tributes to Oliver Knussen on his 50th birthday in 2001, from composers including Elliott Carter, Louis Andriessen and Magnus Lindberg.
Rolf Hind, Nicolas Hodges pianos
Bruce Nockles trumpet
John Orford bassoon
Paul Silverthorne viola
George Benjamin conductor
Wuorinen: Cyclops 2000/A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky
Wuorinen's single movement, single-minded Cyclops 2000 uses the idea of a single entity created from many tiny sections - a single eye made up of many lenses. It is coupled with A Reliquary, his tribute to Igor Stravinsky.
1. Cyclops 2000
2 - 7. A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky
Oliver Knussen conductor
Takemitsu: Green/Arc
Takemitsu's ambitious two-part work for large ensemble and piano, Arc, is paired with Green, composed, as Takemitsu said, 'from a wish to enter into the secrets of Debussy's music'.
1. Green
2 - 4. Arc part 1
5 - 7. Arc part II
Oliver Knussen conductor
Rolf Hind piano
