BBC Concert Orchestra

Joe Cutler - Bartlebooth

Joe Cutler’s demonstrates his multi-faceted style of composition in this first collection of his works on NMC. His music is influenced by the minimalist music of Louis Andriessen, the driving energy of Igor Stravinsky and his love for complex rhythms and jazz. Joe uses unconventional direction in his score to conjure up the mood he want for his composition. The laid-back melismatic solos in Archie are directed to be played 'grundgily' [sic] and for Sal’s Sax the wild, rhythmic passages are marked as “really pumping” along with a carefully chosen Jack Kerouac quote: 'I like my whiskey wild, I like Saturday night in the sack to be crazy … I like to be gassed by a back alley music’.

Leroy Anderson - Orchestral Works Volume 2

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music – a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision. While he laboured alone over each measure of each piece, the result sounded as if he had pulled one marvellous tune after another out of his hat almost at will. Here, in the first complete cycle of Anderson’s orchestral music, the Anderson family has made available several pieces that the composer did not release, with some first recordings scattered among the familiar and not-so-familiar titles. Volume Two contains most of the little-known works from Anderson’s last decade.

The Film Music of John Addison

Walton & Lambert - Ballet Music

Verdi: Macbeth

(original 1847 version)

Seriously Chilled

New arrangements of classic chillout anthems

Leroy Anderson - Orchestral Works Volume 3

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music – a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision. Here, in the first complete cycle of Anderson’s orchestral music, the Anderson family has made available several pieces that the composer did not release, with some first recordings scattered among the familiar and not-so-familiar titles. Volume Three includes the notorious musical gem The Typewriter, in which the machine is transformed into a relentlessly busy percussion instrument, the tasteful and soul-satisfying Suite of Carols for Brass Choir, and Anderson’s biggest hit, Sleigh Ride.