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LNT134: Piano Music by Philip Hammond

  french blue
  irish green
  african black
  epithalamion
  ho hum hill n.h.
  '...this hour of quiet...'
  midnight shadows
  tres memorias de Lorca
  "...an angel smiled..."
  "...the blinks and blanks of night's inscrutable eternity..."
  the island beyond the world

David Quigley (piano), Cathal Breslin (Piano), Michael McHale (Piano)

LNT133: Elizabeth Maconchy: Orchestral Music

  The Land: A Suite for Orchestra
  Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
  Music for Wind and Brass
  Symphony for Double String Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Clélia Iruzun (piano)
Review: Andrew Clements, The Guardian
Review: Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone
Review: Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk

LNT132: Mihailo Trandafilovski: Chamber Music

  Strike-Flow (in three phases)
  Six Pieces from Čekori
  Crystal Threads
  A-de-scent
  Quartet
  Violin Concerto

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Mihailo Trandafilovski (violin), Caroline Balding (viola), Kreutzer Quartet
Review: Rob Barnett, MusicWeb

LNT131: Pantomime: Chamber Music of Peter Child

  Songs of Bidpal
  Pantomime: Seven Lyric Scenes for Oboe Quartet
  Promenade
  Sonata for Viola and Piano
  Rilke Songs

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Olivia Robinson (soprano), Rebecca Lodge (mezzo-soprano), Caroline Balding (viola), Dominic Saunders (piano)
Review: Carson Cooman, Fanfare
Review: American Record Guide September

LNT130: Asonancias - Odaline de la Martinez: Chamber Works

  Litanies
  Asonancias for Solo Violin
  Colour Studies for Piano
  Canciones
  Improvisations for Solo Violin
  Cantos de amor

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Marina Tafur (soprano), Olivia Robinson (soprano), Sophie Langdon (violin), Caroline Balding (violin), Mark Knoop (piano)
Review: Stephen Pettitt, Sunday Times
Review: Guy Rickards, Tempo

LNT129: fire dressed in black - silvina milstein: chamber works

  of lavender light...
  the unending rose I
  fire dressed in black
  the unending rose II
  cristales y susurros
  tigres azules

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Alison Wells (Mezzo-soprano), Caroline Balding (violin)
Review: Stephen Pettitt, Sunday Times
Review: Ivan Hewitt, BBC Music Magazine

LNT128: Cosmos Haptic: Contemporary Piano Music from Japan

  Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic
  Toru Takemitsu: Les yeux clos II
  Akira Miyoshi: Pour le piano I
  Akira Miyoshi: Pour le piano II
  Ichiro Nodaïra: Pas de résonance
  Toshio Hosokawa: "Haiku" for Pierre Boulez
  Keiko Harada: no title #1
  Sachiyo Tsurumi: Toy2
  Dai Fujikura: moromoro

Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)
Review: Mark Sealey, MusicWeb
Review: Michael Church, BBC Music Magazine
Review: AB, The New Scotsman

LNT127: Elizabeth Maconchy: Music for Voices

  Creatures
  Nocturnal
  Four Miniatures
  Sirens' Song
  Prayer before birth
  This Day
  On Stephenses day
  Two Epitaphs
  Propheta Mendax [The Lying Prophet]
  A Hymn to God the Father
  The Ribbon in her Hair
  The Voice of the City
  The Armado
  Still falls the Rain

BBC Singers, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Richard Pearce (piano)
Review: Hubert Culot, MusicWeb
Review: Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion
Review: Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine
Review: Ivan Moody, International Record Review

LNT126: diffracted terrains: Chamber Music of Dorothy Ker

  diffracted terrains: quintet
  diffracted terrains: duo
  solo for cello
  water mountain
  [...and...1]
  [...and...11]

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Andrew Sparling (clarinet), Robin Michael (cello)
Review: Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion

LNT125: Tableaux: Chamber and Choral Music of Peter Child

  Tableaux I
  Tableaux II
  Concerto for Harpsichord and String Quartet
  Sing Song Merry Diggle, A Playground Cantata

Lontano, BBC Singers, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
Review: Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine

LNT124: Francisco Mignone - Piano Music

  Congada
  Seis Prelúdios
  Valsa de Esquina No.8
  Valsa de Esquina No.12
  Lenda Sertaneja No.2
  Serenata Humoristica
  Dança do Botocudo
  No Fundo do meu Quintal
  Quando eu era pequenino
  Cinco peças para piano
  Valsa-Choro No.11
  Valsa-Choro No.12
  Sonatina No.4
  Estudos Transcendentais
  Valsa Brasileira No.3
  Valsa Brasileira No.24
  Cateretê
  Cucumbizinho

Clélia Iruzun (piano)
Review: Classic FM Magazine
Review: Robert Maycock, BBC Music Magazine
Review: Clóvis Marques, O GLobo Newspaper (Portugues)
Review: International Record review
Review: Carlos Dantas, Tribuna da Imprensa (Portugues)

LNT123: Piano Cubano: De algunas zonas del alma

  Pieza No.I (De algunas zonas del alma)
  Música de los niños invisibles Parte I
  Música de los niños invisibles Parte II
  Pieza No.II (De algunas zonas del alma)
  Campanas consonantes
  La música de la No guerra
  Desde la ventana (devastación) Parte I
  Desde la ventana (devastación) Parte II
  Tambores de invierno

Marietta Veulens (piano)
Review: Barela, American Record Guide

LNT122: Piano Music from Northern Ireland

  Philip Hammond: African Black
  Alan Mills: Night-music
  Eibhlis Farrell: Time drops
  Alan Mills: Reproductions
  Philip Hammond: Ho Hum Hill NH
  Deirdre McKay: Time, shining
  David Byers: Echoes of survival
  Philip Hammond: The island beyond the world

David Quigley (piano)

LNT121: Luís Tinoco: Chamber Works

  Antipode
  Trois Poèmes de l'Orient
  Forgotten Places
  Short Cuts (C)
  Sundance Sequence
  Invention on Landscape

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Eileen Hulse (soprano)
Review: Maria Augusta Gonçalves, Jornal de Letras (Portugues)
Review: Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion

LNT120: Piano Music of Carlos Guastavino

  Estilo (a la manera popular)
  Diez Cantilenas Argentinas
  Tierra Linda
  Sonata

Alma Petchersky (piano)

LNT119: Lecuona: Ernesto and Ernestina

  Ernesto Lecuona: Suite Andalucia
  Ernesto Lecuona: Ante el Escorial
  Ernesto Lecuona: Vals apasionado
  Ernesto Lecuona: Vals romántico
  Ernesto Lecuona: Canción de luna
  Ernesto Lecuona: Siempre en mi corazón
  Ernestina Lecuona: No lo dudes
  Ernestina Lecuona: Cierra, cierra los ojos
  Ernesto Lecuona: María la O
  Ernesto Lecuona: Danzas Afro-Cubanas

Clélia Iruzun (piano)
Review: Douglas Cooksey, Classical Source
Review: Göran Forsling, MusicWeb

LNT118: The Music of Jeremy Dale Roberts

  Winter Music
  Croquis for string trio (selection)
  Oggetti - Omaggio à Morandi (piano solo)
  Wieglied (viola solo)
  Layers
  Hamadryad

Hiroake Takenouchi (piano), Dimitri Murrath (viola), Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Review: Paul Driver, The Sunday Times
Review: Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion

LNT117: Music from Northern Ireland

  Stephen Gardner: Mutable Sea
  Ed Bennett: Lost and Found
  Kevin O'Connell: Piano Trio
  Simon Mawhinney: Barcode 2
  Elaine Agnew: Statues
  Michael Alcorn: Off the Wall

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)

LNT116: New Zealand Women Composers

  Dorothy Ker: The Structure of Memory
  Jenny McLeod: For Seven
  Gillian Whitehead: Ahotu (O Matenga)
  Annea Lockwood: Monkey Trips (1995)

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Review: William Dart, New Zealand Herald

LNT115: Brazilian Mosaic

  Francisco Mignone: Fantasia Brasileira No.3
  Heitor Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.9
  Barrozo Netto: Minha Terra
  Edino Krieger: Sonatina
  Heitor Villa Lobos: As Trêa Marias
  Ronaldo Miranda: Concertino
  Marlos Nobre: Concertante do Imaginário

Clélia Iruzun (piano), Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Review: Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion
Interesting article: Michael Burnett, Music Teacher
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LNT114: Smyth, Beach and Spain-Dunk

  Ethel Smyth: String Quartet in E minor
  Amy Marcy Beach: Quartet in One Movement
  Susan Spain-Dunk: Phantasy Quartet in D minor

Archaeus String Quartet
Review: Steve Arloff

LNT113: Alma Latina

  M. Rosas Cobian: Gato's Raid
  Agustín Fernández: Silent Towers
  Rajmil Fischman: Alma Latina
  Gabriela Ortíz: Five Micro Études for tape
  Mario Verandi: Dancescape
  M. Rosas Cobian: Urbis #4

Electroacoustic Music
Review: Uwe Schneider

LNT111: Paradise Haunts... Music by John Metcalf

  Paradise Haunts
  "Rest in Reason, Move in Passion"
  Mountains Blue Like Sea
  Dance from Kafka's Chimp
  Inner Landscapes

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Angell Piano Trio, Caroline Balding (violin), Timothy Lissimore (piano), Frances Angell (piano), Richard McMahon (piano)

LNT110: A Life in Reverse: the Music of Minna Keal

  Cantillation for Violin and Orchestra Op.4
  Wind Quintet Op.2
  String Quartet Op.1
  Symphony Op.3

Stephen Bryant (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Cleobury (conductor), Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor), Archaeus String Quartet
Review: Hubert Culot

LNT108: Boulez sans Boulez

  Piano Sonata No.1 (Première Sonate)
  Le marteau sans maître

Marc Ponthus (piano), Linda Hirst (mezzo-soprano), Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Review: AW, Gramophone

LNT106: The Piano Music of Alberto Ginastera

  Milonga Op.3
  Danzas Argentinas Op.2 (Argentinian Dances)
  Doce Preludios Americanos Op.12 (Twelve American Preludes)
  Suite de Danzas Criollas Op.15 (Suite of Folk Dances)
  Rondó sobre temas infantiles argentinos Op.19 (Rondo on Argentinian Children's Folk Tunes)
  Sonata No.1 Op.22
  Sonata No.2 Op.53
  Sonata No.3 Op.55

Alma Petchersky (piano)
Review: Jessica Duchen, BBC Music Magazine
Review: Berigan, American Record Guide

LNT105: Sea of Glass Môr o Wydr

  John Metcalf: Harp Scrapbook
  Arvo Pärt: Pari Intervallo
  Robert ap Huw: Hun Gwenllian
  Jeffrey Lewis: Dreams, Dances and Lullabies
  Grace Williams: Hiraeth
  Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
  Robert ap Huw: Gosteg yr Halen
  Philip Glass: Metamorphosis No.2
  Philip Glass: Wichita Vortex Sutra

Elinor Bennett (harp)
Review: Gwyn Parry-Jones, Musicweb
Review: Danielle Perrett, BBC Music Magazine
Review: Alex Heffes, CD Review

LNT104: Tin Pan Ballet: Music of Martin Butler

  Tin-Pan Ballet
  Bluegrass Variations
  Jazz Machines
  On the Rocks
  Going with the Grain

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Review: Hubert Culot
Review: William Humphreys-Jones, BBC Music Magazine
Review: Taylor, American Record Guide

LNT103: British Women Composers, Vol. 2

  Odaline de la Martinez: Canciones
  Judith Weir: Airs from Another Planet
  Melinda Maxwell: Pibroch
  Hilary Tann: Winter sun, Summer rain
  Eleanor Alberga: Suite from: Dancing with the shadow

Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)

LNT102: Villa Lobos: Chamber and Choral Music

  Sexteto Místico
  Two Chôros bis
  Quatuor
  Chôros No.7
  Bachianas Brasileiras No.9

BBC Singers, Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Review: Terry Barfoot, Musicweb
Review: Peter Wells, Musicweb

LNT101: British Women Composers, Vol. 1

  Errolyn Wallen: It all depends on you
  Lindsay Cooper: The Road Is Wider Than Long
  Elizabeth Maconchy: My Dark Heart
  Nicola Lefanu: The Old Woman of Beare

Jane Manning (soprano), Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Review: MS, Gramophone Magazine

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