NMC 35th Anniversary - up to 25% off
Until 13th November, we are offering up to 25% off NMC titles on CD, Vinyl, DVD and download.
NMC 2024
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The highlights are the Suite and her variations on the 16th-century tune Loth to Depart, both full of Holst’s own muscular, piquant string writing – fans of Tippett’s string music will love... — More…
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Special offer. Birtwistle: Angel Fighter
Andrew Watts (Angel) & Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob)
BBC Singers & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
Birtwistle unleashes all his powers as a stage composer onto Stephen Plaice's text, using the whole building to create a thrilling dramatisation of the Bible story…pungent pizzicato rhythms,... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Birtwistle: Night’s Black Bird
RecommendedOwen Slade (tuba)
The Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
these are among the most powerful orchestral pieces of recent years...Wigglesworth and the Halle give performances of amazing concentration, accuracy and passion, aided by recorded sound of... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Premiere Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony
Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner
Cast in the conventional three movements, [the Flute Concerto] dances through a musical landscape full of light and shade. Its invigorating sense of pace and momentum is beautifully caught by... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Special offer. Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Eloisa-Fleur Thorn (violin), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Benjamin Bellman (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Contemporary Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ilan Volkov, Richard Baker, Andrew Gourlay
The music of Edmund Finnis invites rather than demands attention – and the more it is given, the more its gifts unfold… Each work on this exquisite debut disc is, in effect, a constantly changing... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Premiere
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Special offer. Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins
Birtwistle's opera is about the Orpheus myth, but the familiar story has been fragmented. Each of the principal characters is represented by two singers and a (silent) dancer, and much of what... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Contemporary
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Special offer. Imogen Holst: String Chamber Music
Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Daniel Swain
It defies belief that until this recording led by violinist and cellist Simon and Thomas Hewitt Jones appeared much of this fine music, combining haunting Englishness with a distinctly French... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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This is, finally, the memorial that all of us who were admirers of Steve Martland’s music have been waiting for…Anyone interested in the variety of British music of the 20th century should explore... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Spark Catchers
Roderick Williams, Tai Murray, Chi-chi Nwanoku, Isata Kanneh-Mason
Chineke! Orchestra & Chorus, Kevin John Edusei, Wayne Marshall, Anthony Parnther
Titular track The Spark Catchers was recorded at the BBC Proms in 2017. Hannah Kendall’s sound whirlpool takes its inspiration from Lemn Sissay’s poem of the same name. There is an itchy brooding... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Special offer. Julian Anderson: Book of Hours
Lamberto Coccioli & Scott Wilson (electronics)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Oliver Knussen, Martyn Brabbins & Sakari Oramo
The dazzling Book of Hours, composed for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, is one of Anderson's greatest achievements so far, building from the simplest beginning - the first four notes... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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