 | Birtwistle: The Minotaur
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5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Fantastic new opera!
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 | Birtwistle: Theseus Game, Earth Dances
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 | Harrison Birtwistle: Nenia; The Fields of Sorrow; Verse for Ensembles
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 | Brian Ferneyhough: Shadowtime
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 | Brian Ferneyhough: Flurries; String Trio; In nomine a 3; Streichtrio; Incipits
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 | Brian Ferneyhough: Fourth String Quartet; Kurze Schatten II; Trittico per g.s.; Terrain
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 | Jonathan Harvey: Body Mandala; Timepieces; Tranquil Abiding; White as Jasmine; Towards a Pure Land
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5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings; Madonna of Winter and Spring
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Buy new: $87.98 ROBERT SIMPSON (1921 -- 1997)
5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 9
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $4.89 This is Simpson's best symphony for anyone who wants a sample before they spring for the Complete Symphonies.
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 | Robert Simpson: String Quartet No. 9
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $9.98 This is perhaps Simpson's most amazing string quartet.
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 | Thomas Adès: The Tempest
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This acclaimed opera had its ROC premiere in 2004 -- this EMI recording is from its 2007 ROC revival.
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 | Julian Anderson: Book of Hours
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 | Rebecca Saunders: Choler; Crimson; Miniata
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Saunders has been based in Berlin for several years, so she could go on the German composers list too.
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 | Turnage: Fractured Lines by Mark-Anthony Turnage
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 | George Benjamin: Palimpsests
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3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | Macmillan: Symphony No. 3 'Silence'; The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
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 | Judith Weir: Blond Eckbert
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 | Chris Dench: Beyond Status Geometry
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Dench has lived in Australia for some time now.
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 | James Dillon: The Soadie Waste
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 | The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber by Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I'm not sure Webber belongs on this list of classical composers -- musicals are not the same as operas. But perhaps the link will bring more browsers to the less well-known composers here.
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 | Michael Finnissy: Etched Bright with Sunlight
Buy used from: $13.85 MICHAEL FINNISSY (b. 1946)
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 | John Rutter Collection by Rutter
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A composer of traditional choral sacred music, I had never heard of Rutter before today (3/8/09) when he was referred to as "famous." A relative term, apparently.
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 | Christopher Gunning: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Oboe Concerto by Gunning
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Two symphonies and the Oboe Concerto from the composer best-known for his award-winning TV and film scores.
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 | Tavener: The Protecting Veil, The Last Sleep of the Virgin, Choral Music by Steven Isserlis
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The popular Tavener specializes in sacred Christian music.
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 | The Piano
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Popular film soundtrack by the British minimalist.
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 | Bryars: The Sinking Of The Titanic / Barnett, Bryars Ensemble, et al
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 | Robin Holloway: Violin Concerto; Horn Concerto
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 | Cornelius Cardew: Treatise
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Cardew wrote "Treatise," a 193-page graphic score, in 1967. This is a 10/15/67 live recording. He later joined the free improv group AMM, and then dropped out of music to become a Marxist activist.
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 | Nicholas Maw: Odyssey; Dance Scenes
Buy used from: $69.99 NICHOLAS MAW (1935 -- 2009)
"Odyssey" is considered one of Maw's masterpieces. He was an unfashionable tonal composer who gained recognition as modernism waned.
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 | Peter Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartets Nos. 9 & 10
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Davies is still quite active at 75.
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 | Alexander Goehr: Little Symphony; String Quartet No. 1; Piano Trio
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 | Humphrey Searle: Complete Symphonies
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 | Britten: War Requiem
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 | Britten: Peter Grimes
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 | Michael Tippett - King Priam / Macann, Walker, Haskin, Norrington, Hytner (Kent Opera)
Buy new: $29.49 / Used from: $24.42 MICHAEL TIPPETT (1905 -- 1998)
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 | Edward Rubbra - Complete Symphonies / Hickox by Edward Rubbra
Buy new: $79.98 / Used from: $50.00 EDWARD RUBBRA (1901 -- 1986)
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 | Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 4 "Das Siegeslied" (Psalm of Victory)
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Brian was championed by Robert Simpson, and that's good enough for me!
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