Usk Recordings

Piano Quintet • Elegy • Clarinet Quintet

Timothy Salter

Rhapsodic, dramatic works for chamber ensembles played by a line-up of outstanding international artists

USK 1235CD

The Muse Piano Quintet . The Usk Ensemble

Piano Music by Arnold Bax

Eloquent and virtuosic première recordings of Bax’s music for solo piano.

USK 1236CD

Natalia Williams-Wandoch, Piano

Fauré Salter Ravel

The distinguished Fournier Trio in performances of outstanding presence and vitality

USK 1231CD

• Fournier Trio

Spectrum 5

15 contemporary pieces by distinguished international composers, recorded by the pianist who commissioned them for the latest volume in the celebrated Spectrum series, published by ABRSM.
USK 1233DL

• Thalia Myers, Piano

The Country of the Stars

Contemporary music for chorus

…lyrical, impassioned, ebullient… works by ten composers displaying the vitality and variety of contemporary choral music.

USK 1224CD

• The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor

Chimera

Performances exploding with energy and imagination, of a richly varied collection from British composers of today.

USK 1226CD

• Alexandra Wood violin, Huw Watkins piano

Chameleon

Music with wind by Timothy Salter

Chameleon, a concerto for alto saxophone, together with a wind quintet and duos with piano for flute, bassoon, and bass clarinet display the vitality and lyricism of this composer’s music, performed by an eminent line-up of players.

USK 1232CD

• Kyle Horch alto saxophone , Sacconi Quartet , Tim Gibbs double bass , Donna Maria Landowski percussion, Helen Duffy flute , Timothy Salter piano , Graham Sheen bassoon , Helen Paskins bass clarinet , Ivana Gavrić piano , Aurora Ensemble

Scandinavian Choral Music

Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Selim Palmgren, Wilhelm Stenhammar

Music from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden ranging from the haunting to the exuberant.

USK 1218CD

• Matthew Brook baritone, Marianne Cotterill soprano, The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor

After the Sun

Words by Henry Vaughan, Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Lowbury.

The mystery of death expressed by three poets in words set to music by Timothy Salter that moves between the ecstatic and the introspective.

USK 1225CDS

• Matthew Brook baritone, Rebecca Kozam oboe/cor anglais, Timothy Salter piano

Early One Morning

20 Traditional English Folk Songs

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.

USK 1215CD

• The Ionian Singers , Charles Metcalfe tenor, Thalia Myers piano, Alexander Neal percussion, Timothy Salter conductor

Spectrum 4

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.

USK 1227CDD

• Thalia Myers piano

Parallax

Music for Chamber Ensembles

New music for chamber ensembles by Timothy Salter; a transparent sound-world of arresting sonority, febrile energy and sinuous, floated line.

USK 1219CD

• 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

Love’s Tempest

C Hubert H. Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edward Elgar, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Rich, late Romantic choral music – these secular songs, some long neglected, are amongst their composers’ finest achievements.

USK 1220CD

• The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor

Haydn: The Complete Authentic Keyboard Variations

For the first time, a comprehensive collection of Haydn’s keyboard variations – sparkling performances of insight and sensitivity.

USK 1217CD

• Thalia Myers piano

Chains of Gold

Sacred Choral Music of the English Renaissance

Thomas Morley, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd

The glory of the late English Renaissance, brilliantly displayed. Many of these works are unavailable in the current catalogue.

USK 1222CD / 1222MC

• The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor

Perspectives 1-5 . A Greeting

Music for solo piano by Timothy Salter

A powerfully expressive kaleidoscope of six pieces played by the pianist for whom they were written

USK 1234DL

• Thalia Myers piano

A Poem of Dancing

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.

USK 1229CDS

• Jessica Townsend clarinet, The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor

Perspectives

Contemporary British Music for Solo Piano.

World première recordings by five distinguished composers, showing the exciting diversity of style in recent British writing.

USK 1221CD

• Thalia Myers piano

Aerial

Three quartets from Timothy Salter showing the distinctive harmonic language, drama and structural elegance of his compositional style: Aerial – quartet for flute and strings (2008), is made available for the first time alongside his Piano Quartet (2006) and earlier String Quartet No. 2 (1983).

USK 1230CD

• Nephele Ensemble , Ensemble na Mara , Auriol String Quartet

20th Century British Choral Music

Alun Hoddinott, Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Jonathan Harvey, Thea Musgrave, Timothy Salter

The rich diversity of contemporary British choral music displayed in performances of great vitality and presence.

USK 1216CD

• The Ionian Singers , Eric Jacobsen percussion , Thalia Myers piano , Timothy Salter conductor

Lacrimae rerum

cello, organ & chorus – text from Virgil’s Aeneid

A powerful and haunting work, concerning the transience of mortal things and the spiritual significance of the natural world.

USK 1223CDS

• Paul Marleyn cello , Thalia Myers organ , The Ionian Singers , Timothy Salter conductor

Piano Quartet

This recording is now incorporated into USK 1230CD (Aerial).

USK 1228CDS

• Ensemble na Mara