Anna Meredith, Alexander Goehr & Colin Matthews: Chamber Works (Live)

Three leading British ensembles perform music by three contrasting British composers, all for a concert recorded live at Wigmore Hall. Anna Meredith’s Tripotage Miniatures is a varied set of “jiggery-pokery”, in her term, while Colin Matthews’s Postludes is dedicated to the late composer Oliver Knussen. After “The Waking” by Alexander Goehr is a quintet in five movements that builds on material from one of Goehr’s songs.

Featuring

Martyn Brabbins
Nicholas Daniel
Aurora Orchestra
Nash Ensemble
Britten Sinfonia
Anna Meredith

Alexander Goehr
Colin Matthews

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Album & Artwork

NMC Recordings, the label for this album, is a multi award-winning new music charity founded in 1989 by composer Colin Matthews OBE, devoted to contemporary classical music by composers from across the British Isles.

Performer Biography

Geoffrey Paterson, the conductor on this album, won both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2009 Leeds Conductors Competition.

Recording & Production

All works on this album were recorded live at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, on June 2, 2019.

Composer Biography

Alex Woolf, one of the composers featured, was the winner of BBC Young Composer of the Year in 2012.

Composition History

The composers on this album are participants in the Philharmonia Orchestra's 2018/19 Composers' Academy and winners of the 2018 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize.

Composer Biography

Chia-Ying Lin, a composer from Taiwan, is a 2018 winner of a Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and has earned international recognition since 2015.

Composition History

The three works on this album were commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS), an organization famous for commissioning Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.