Name-Dropping (Our New CDs)

Cool Things!

Cool Owl (sorry, Twittaker!)

Today, we've added a fine handful of CDs to our library stock!  A CD by our composition lecturer Alistair MacDonald*, another by traditional music lecturer Lori Watson*, a guitar CD by guitar lecturer Matthew McAllister, and a whole handful of CDs by last week's visiting composition lecturer and guitarist, Professor Stephen Goss from the University of Surrey.  The CDs' pictures won't show up on our rolling new accessions feature on the catalogue homepage, because they don't have ISBNs.  (Yes, we know, it's a shame!)  However, you can look up the composers' names in our catalogue and see what we've got.  We're quite excited to have so much interesting new material all in the same week.

*Alistair's CD is entitled, Untold Story and was made with Anne-Liis Poll - it's the fruit of 5 years of performances and recordings of improvised voice and live electronics in Scotland, Estonia and Iceland. Cover art by artist Shona Barr, liner notes by composer and wordsmith Nick Virgo, published by Leo Records.

 Lori's Yarrow Acoustic Sessions is available via her website, http://loriwatson.net/

And there's a YouTube film about Matthew McAllister's latest album, American Collection!

Owl in Residence: Twittaker

A Contemporary Finnish Symphonist: Fridrich Bruk

We received a complementary CD from composer Fridrich Bruk earlier this week, showcasing four of his symphonies (nos. 13-16).  Look out for it on our new acquisitions display shelves.

The symphonies are performed by the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Imants Resnis.  

• About Fridrich Bruk
• Symphony 13 (YouTube)

New Sound Recordings for the Whittaker Library

Although we subscribe to music streaming services with Naxos and Alexander Street Press (not to mention the historic recordings at British Library Sounds), we do still get CDs occasionally.  Not everything is available to libraries digitally, yet!

And we've just added a number of very varied recordings.  You can keep an eye on new acquisitions here.  Now, be warned. We did say they were varied ...

Contemporary CDs - Welcome to 2016!

We seem to have had a flurry of donations on the CD front in recent months.  A quick cataloguing blitz, and now they're all getting labelled, heading for the shelves.

So if you're interested in contemporary music from Finland or Belgium, electronic music with guitar, or an assortment of other exotica, you only need to look at our "recent acquisitions" list on the catalogue.  Click here.  We've also added our latest PhD student's thesis!