Gramophone Awards Nomination for NMC Portrait Disc

Pieces that Disappear, the portrait disc of my orchestral music released last year on NMC Recordings, has been shortlisted for the Gramophone Classical Music Awards.

The disc features four pieces, all performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and also features frequent collaborators Anna Dennis and Daniel Pioro:

Three Pieces that Disappear – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (cond.)

Beautiful Caged Thing – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay (cond.)

Pleasure Garden – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with Daniel Pioro, Elena Schwarz (cond.)

After Lassus – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay (cond.)

The disc is nominated in the ‘Contemporary’ Category, alongside George Benjamin’s ‘Picture a Day like This’, an NMC disc of Anthony Payne’s music, a disc of John Pickard on BIS, and ‘Dalia’s Mixtape’, Dalia Stasevska’s eclectic disc with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

My album can be streamed here, or purchased here, in physical or digital form.