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Alexander Geohr - Since Brass, Nor Stone
Colin Currie, percussion ; Pavel Haas Quartet ; The Nash Ensemble
NMC D187,  Sept 2013

This recording features Goehr's chamber music written between the years of 2002 and 2012, performed by the Nash Ensemble, the Pavel Haas Quartet and percussionist Colin Currie, all of whom have worked closely with the composer.

Commissioned by the BBC and the Royal Philharmonic Society for the New Generation Artists scheme.
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Alexander Geohr - Marching to Carcassonne 
Peter Serkin ; Oliver Knussen ; London Sinfonietta ; BBC Symphony Orchestra
Naxos: 8573052, Jan 2013

Marching to Carcassonne, Op. 74 - BBC Symphony Orchestra
When Adam Fell, Op. 89 - BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pastorals, Op. 19 - Peter Serkin/London Sinfonietta
Alexander Goehr - Colossos or Panic
Claire Booth, soprano ; Hilary Summers, contralto ; BCM ; BBC SO ; ASKO Ensemble & Schönberg Ensemble ; Oliver Knussen, conductor
NMC, May 2012

Goehr’s orchestral evocation of Goya’s terrifying painting, Colossos, is coupled with the premiere recording of his early cantata The Deluge, inspired by Eisenstein’s notes for a film based on writings by Leonardo da Vinci (the film was never completed). The neo-classical Little Symphony, which uses the chordal structure of Mussorgsky’s ‘Catacombs’ from Pictures at an Exhibition as a harmonic backbone, is performed by the Dutch chamber orchestra, ASKO Ensemble. 
Symmetry Disorders Reach
Huw Watkins, piano

In his work "Symmetry Disorders Reach" whose title and context are inspired by W.H, Auden's "New Year Letter"), Alexander Goehr uses models by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Schumann to explore the creative act. The disorders of the imagination are to be arranged and extended to a certain kind of symmetry, whereas he forms a symmetry (matrix) to a luxuriant disorder. Alexander Goehr (born in Berlin and brought up in England) belongs to the UK's leading musical figures, both as composer and teacher. This recording is the result of a unique collaboration between Goehr and one of his former Cambridge pupils, the brilliant composer and pianist Huw Watkins.
Arianna
Ruby Philogene, mezzo-soprano ; Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone ; Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor ; Arianna Ensemble ; William Lacey, conductor
NMC D054, 1998

Arianna, Monteverdi's lost opera is "composed again" by Alexander Goehr; ranging from direct quotation of the 1608 original, to Goehr's Stravinsky-like reinterpretation, this remarkable score features some of Britain's best young singers.
Behold the Sun
RLPO ; David Atherton, cond. ; Moray Welsh, cello
NMC D095, 1981

"Moments of ear-catching, rarefied beauty" BBC Music Magazine

Goehr's neo-classical works - Bach tribute ...a musical offering (JSB 1985)... and Sinfonia - plus the dazzling coloratura aria Behold the Sun, the Romanza for cello and orchestra, and the vivid variation-set Metamorphosis/Dance.