Disc Details

Contents

Work Title	Composer
Sonnet XVIII	Simon Bainbridge	Listen
Meet me in the Green Glen	Brian Elias	Listen
Nobody Comes	Helen Grime	Listen
Raju Raghuvanshi is a Ghost	Simon Holt	Listen
The Lif of this world	Stuart MacRae	Listen
Labyrinth to Light	Peter Maxwell Davies	Listen
A Cat	John McCabe	Listen
A Winter's Morning	Thea Musgrave	Listen
Darkness Visible	Tarik O'Regan	Listen
Blackbirds and Thrushes	Judith Weir	Listen
Easter	Hugh Wood	Listen

Reviews

• The plethora of styles and approaches is bewildering, yet patterns do emerge, such as an awareness of the firm foundations provided by earlier generations of British composers, a love of language's possibilities and regional inflections.
  This snapshot of British musical life suggests ... while financial headlines may be unremittingly gloomy, the artisitc outlook is far more cheerful.
  Christopher Dingle, BBC Music Magerzine, 01 May 2009
• There are full texts and the imaginative design concept reflects the disparity of the idiomatic options available. Whether tonal, atonal or pseudo-tonal, some of these are found as if by chance and loosely worn, others carefully nurtured and obsessively worked.
  David Gutman, Gramophone, 01 May 2009