Usk recordings: Catalogue

	A POEM OF DANCING Timothy Salter Timothy Salter conductor, Jessica Townsend clarinet, The Ionian Singers Full track listing USK 1229CDS Timothy Salter's paean to dancing, a setting of verses by the sixteenth century poet Sir John Davies. A richly dramatic performance conducted by the composer.
	PIANO QUARTET Timothy Salter Ensemble na Mara Full track listing USK 1228CDS The winners of the Royal Overseas League Ensemble prize give a highly-charged, compelling performance of this fine new work, which they commissioned in 2006.
	SPECTRUM 4 66 miniatures for solo piano: an international collection Thalia Myers piano Adeline Wong, Alejandro Guarello, Alejandro Viñao, Alexandre Lunsqui, Alun Hoddinott, Ananda Sukarlan, Andrew Toovey, Aulis Sallinen, Barry Conyngham, Beat Furrer & others Full track listing USK 1227CDD 66 newly-commissioned international miniatures. This release, produced in association with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, coincides with the publication of the fourth volume in the outstanding Spectrum series.
	CHIMERA contemporary music for violin and piano Alexandra Wood violin, Huw Watkins piano Colin Matthews, Daniel Giorgetti, Helen Grime, Hugh Wood, Huw Watkins, Michael Zev Gordon, Philip Cashian, Timothy Salter Full track listing USK 1226CD Performances exploding with energy and imagination, of a richly varied collection from British composers of today.
	AFTER THE SUN baritone, oboe/cor anglais, piano - words by Henry Vaughan, Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Lowbury Timothy Salter conductor, Matthew Brook baritone, Rebecca Kozam oboe, cor anglais Full track listing USK 1225CDS The mystery of death expressed by three poets in words set to music by Timothy Salter that moves between the ecstatic and the introspective.
	THE COUNTRY OF THE STARS contemporary music for chorus The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor Colin Matthews, Douglas Young, Elisabeth Lutyens, Gabriel Jackson, Howard Skempton, John Casken, Philip Cashian, Simon Bainbridge, Stephen Oliver, Timothy Salter Full track listing USK 1224CD ...lyrical, impassioned, ebullient... works by ten composers displaying the vitality and variety of contemporary choral music.
	LACRIMAE RERUM cello, organ & chorus - text from Virgil's Aeneid Thalia Myers organ, Timothy Salter conductor, Paul Marleyn cello, The Ionian Singers Full track listing USK 1223CDS A powerful and haunting work, concerning the transience of mortal things and the spiritual significance of the natural world.
	CHAINS OF GOLD Sacred Choral Music of the English Renaissance The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor Thomas Morley, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd Full track listing USK 1222CD / 1222MC The glory of the late English Renaissance, brilliantly displayed.Many of these works are unavailable in the current catalogue.
	PERSPECTIVES Contemporary British Music for Solo Piano Thalia Myers piano David Bedford, Edwin Roxburgh, Elisabeth Lutyens, Gabriel Jackson, Timothy Salter Full track listing USK 1221CD World première recordings by five distinguished composers, showing the exciting diversity of style in recent British writing.
	LOVE'S TEMPEST Late Romantic Choral Music Timothy Salter conductor, The Ionian Singers , Marianne Cotterill soprano C Hubert H. Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edward Elgar, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Full track listing USK 1220CD Rich, late Romantic music - these secular songs, some long neglected, are amongst their composers' finest achievements.
	PARALLAX Music for Chamber Ensembles Helen Duffy flute, The Addison Trio , Thalia Myers piano, Richard Watkins horn, Gillian Tingay harp, The Auriol String Quartet , Brian Schiele viola, Timothy Salter piano, Alexander Neal percussion Full track listing USK 1219CD New music for chamber ensembles by Usk's director, Timothy Salter;a transparent sound-world of arresting sonority, febrile energy and sinuous, floated line.
	SCANDINAVIAN CHORAL MUSIC The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Selim Palmgren, Wilhelm Stenhammar Full track listing USK 1218CD Music from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden ranging from the haunting to the exuberant.
	HAYDN THE COMPLETE AUTHENTIC KEYBOARD VARIATIONS Thalia Myers piano Full track listing USK 1217CD For the first time, a comprehensive collection of Haydn's keyboard variations - sparkling performances of insight and sensitivity.
	20TH CENTURY BRITISH CHORAL MUSIC Thalia Myers piano, Timothy Salter conductor, The Ionian Singers , Erik Jacobsen percussion Alun Hoddinott, Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Jonathan Harvey, Thea Musgrave, Timothy Salter Full track listing USK 1216CD The rich diversity of contemporary British choral music displayed in performances of great vitality and presence.
	EARLY ONE MORNING 20 Traditional English Folk Songs The Ionian Singers , Charles Metcalfe tenor, Thalia Myers piano, Timothy Salter conductor, Alexander Neal percussion Full track listing USK 1215CD Poignant, lively, sad, witty - the richness of English folk song in Timothy Salter's highly Individual settings of musical distinction. Widely Acclaimed and enjoyed by concert audiences in many countries.