Michael Tippett: New Year

Michael Tippett: New YearThe first commercial recording of Michael Tippett's opera New Year, featuring a stellar cast, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. This major 2 disc release was recorded in Glasgow in April 2024 ahead of the live performance given with stage director Victoria Newlyn. Described by Tippetts acclaimed biographer, Oliver Soden, as the recording that fills a gaping hole in the history of British opera, providing the missing link

unpredictable ways

The wildly expressive Viola Concerto was Kate’s first orchestral work and was written for Shiry Rashkovsky when they were both students

present a dynamic and  dramatic exploration of Sethares's thinking

obsession and loss - also the subject of Songs from 'Yellow Leaves'

East Finchley

Tiding II (silentium) is the second in a collection of Illean's pieces dealing with elemental patterns

Marian Freeman Editing & mastering

(P) 2006 NMC Recordings Ltd© 2006 NMC Recordings LtdCatalogue number: NMC D085Release Date: 5 January 2006

a setting of love poetry

Catalogue number: NMC D215

Shiva FesharekiRecorded by: Zubin Kanga and Ronan Phelan at Masterchord Studios on 13 & 20 February 2023

The piece is inspired by two woodcuts engraved by German polymath Albrecht Dürer in 1515