Sadie Harrison

The Light Garden trilogy

Includes The Light Garden; The Fourteenth Terrace; Bavad Khair Baqi!

Performed by Lontano — Odaline de la Martinez (conductor) Andrew Sparling (clarinet) — Tate Ensemble and Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) with Ensemble Bakhtar (traditional Afghan music)

Metier Records MSV CD 92084 (2003)

"The Light Garden is an offering of the highest quality, with no compromise for popular taste... This is without question one of my top recordings of the year, a ground-breaking release" Music Web

"METIER offers a catalog of consistently impressive discs. In such lofty company, this one still stands out." International Record Review

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Taking Flight

Taking Flight; Traceries; Impresa Amorso; Arcosola; Aster

Performed by Kreutzer Quartet, Aaron Shorr et al.

Metier Records MSV CD92053 (2001) — their site includes an audio clip of Arcosola.

"For those who feel that contemporary music often lacks a heart, but who are also uncomfortable with a return to overtly tonal structures, this disc is definitely worth exploring.” Classical London, Disc of the Month

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No Title Required

includes No Title Required; Three Expositions; After Colonna

Performed by Double Image

Metier Records MSV CD 92056 (2002)

"Three Expositions... expert flautists could do worse than add this beautifully constructed and fascinating work to their repertoire; it should rank alongside Debussy and Varèse ... a composer of considerable potential and power." Music Web

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Times for Flying

includes Times for Flying

Performed by Colin Lawson and Victoria Soames

Clarinet Classics CC0032 (2001)

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Inscapes - New Music For Violin And Piano

includes Arcosolia

Performed by Adam Summerhayes and Alan Brown

Sargasso SCD 28036 (2000)

"'Arcosolia' is a lament finding consolation in proliferating lines which reinforce the relevance of Harrison's impressionist heritage... a versatile and accomplished composer." Gramophone

"...a profounder kind of utterance..." The Wire

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Songs from the Exotic: New works for voice, clarinet and piano

includes Nani ka itou

Performed by Tapestry

British Music Label BML 012

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New French Song

includes '...issu stellaire...'

Performed by Alison Smart and Katherine Durran

Metier Records MSV CD 92100 (2005)

"standing out as one of the most innovative scores is '...issu stellaire...'" Tempo

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An Unexpected Light

Performed by Rusne Mataityte and the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Vilnius; conducted by Donatas Katkus

NMC D125

"NMC has struck gold… A wonderful sequence which held us enthralled, playing the programme through with only one brief pause; a marvellous 'concert' which builds on the legacy of Bartok's Kodaly's pioneering collecting long ago, 'cross-over' a new and enriched meaning; which we will return." Musical Pointers

"Sadie Harrison's unique fusion of elements from indigenous Lithuanian music and poetry with her own modernist, often abrasive style, have led her to be compared with Bartok, but her underlying empathy with the local people of this war-torn country shines through with a poignancy and warmth all of her own." Tempo

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One Minute Wonders

includes Sleeping with the fishes

Performed by Clive Williamson

Cadenza

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