Ayanna Witter-Johnson – Composers’ Academy, Vol. 5 (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]

Ayanna Witter-Johnson – Composers’ Academy, Vol. 5 (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]

Volume 5 of NMC Recordings’ partnership with the Philharmonia Orchestra features two new works by composers Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Alex Paxton, participants in the Philharmonia’s 2021 “Composers’ Academy” and the 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Composers programme.

Andrew Watts, Iain Burnside – A Countertenor Songbook (2018) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]

Andrew Watts, Iain Burnside – A Countertenor Songbook (2018) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]

This album brings together the works of seven very different composers in a single songbook. Most of the pieces were written specially for countertenor Andrew Watts, who has championed contemporary music for the thirty years he has been singing professionally. He has established a reputation for being one of the foremost operatic countertenors of his generation and has appeared on opera and concert platforms throughout the world.