From the Russian fairy-tale enchantment of The Firebird to the austere ritual at the end of his Requiem Canticles composed over half a century later, Stravinsky's extraordinary creativity embraces a... more

This live recording features works by some of the foremost names in contemporary Italian music. With the Firebird Ensemble are Roger Heaton (clarinet), Christopher Redgate (oboe and cor anglais) and... more

Fine songs by British composers, with a slightly unusual instrumentation (recorder, cello and harpsichord) rather than the usual piano! Full texts included.

George Nicholson says that he is always alert to the challenge of working with the grain of every instrument he writes for, exploring and exploiting it's potential to the full. As a result his music... more

Oedipus Rex, based on Sophocles' tragedy, is an established twentieth-century classic. Employing a speaker, male chorus and orchestra, it represents Stravinsky' 1920s neo-classicism at it's peak.