BRIGHT SHENG / ROSS EDWARDS / TORU TAKEMITSU / GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Bright Tide Moving Between NZTrio [ Rattle Records / CD - released 14/Apr/2008 ] "…a miracle of synergy & synchronicity…" (William Dart, NZ Herald). "Dashing young & direct… violinist Justine Cormack, cellist Ashley Brown, & pianist Sarah Watkins have impressive crudentials - when they combine there are fireworks" (Kate Mead -... |
MOZART / YUDANE / PART / CASTRO-ROBINSON / RAVEL
Flourishes NZTrio [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] The third album by one of NZ's most accomplished classical groups. Playing with the boundaries of contemporary chamber music, NZ Trio brings its much-heralded blend of contrasting works to its new album. |
Norman Meehan / Bill Manhire / Hannah Griffin
Making Baby Float [ Rattle Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] A performance that captures the natural essence of the material, and the vital energy of a live musical event. The DVD is beautifully shot and includes tracks additional to those selected for the CD. |
Norman Meehan / Hannah Griffin / Hayden Chisholm
Small Holes In the Silence [ Rattle Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] Following the popular and critically acclaimed Buddhist Rain and Making Baby Float, Norman Meehan and Hannah Griffin teamed up with saxophonist Hayden Chisholm for this third instalment in their New Zealand poetry series. The relaxed serendipitous... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lightbox NZTrio [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/May/2015 ] For their third Rattle release following their two Best Classical Album nominated releases, Bright Tide Moving Between (2008) and Flourishes (2011), NZTrio's exceptional new recording features recent commissions by some of the finest of the current... |
BUNCH / COWAN / PENAFORTE / BAILEY / SCHOENFIELD
Sway NZTrio [ Rattle Records / CD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] NZTrio's Sway perfectly encapsulates their shared ambition to bring joyful, vibrant, life-affirming music to audiences in all corners of the world. |
Omar Carmenates
Gaia Theory [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Jan/2013 ] An album of contemporary percussion music composed by Scott Lindroth, Brian Nozny, John Psathas, Christopher Dean, David Skidmore and Christopher Adler, beautifully presented by Rattle Records. |
Peter Hobbs
Luminescence [ Rattle Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2023 ] Luminescence documents Peter's exploration of both synthesis and the natural world. Most of the works were improvised from melodic and rhythmic seeds, while others were spontaneously written on location in the wild. "Connecting more with nature,... |
Peter Hobbs
Tomo [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] "The compositions on this album were performed on keyboards, modular synths, drums, trumpet, pūtōrino, ocarina and cello. They are also fused with ambient field recordings from the tracks composed in the caves of the Waitakere Ranges. The music was... |
PHIL BROADHURST
Soliloquy Phil Broadhurst (solo piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Recorded in November 2019 on the grand piano in his home, the tone of Phil's final album is fittingly intimate, reflective and introspective, but without ever becoming heavy, dark or sentimental. |
Phil Dadson, Paul Winstanley, Tom Nunn
961 [ Rattle Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] 961, the moniker for a building situated at 961 Field Rd, Marin Headlands (USA), became the project tag for a weekly collaboration between Tom Nunn (US), Paul Winstanley (US/NZ) and Phil Dadson (NZ). During Phil's three-month artist residency at... |
Richard Nunns
Mahi [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Dec/2020 ] One of the largely unseen consequences of the European colonisation of Aotearoa was that the playing of, and knowledge about, the traditional musical instruments of Maori almost disappeared. In the 1970s a young Pakeha schoolteacher, Richard Nunns,... |
RICHARD NUNNS
Tuhonohono: The Weaving Richard Nunns / Judy Bailey / Steve Garden [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] Tühonohono, marries European (read ECM) form with Pacific texture. This is an unashamedly lush, ambient, spacious album, evoking a sense of mystery as it weaves together the strands of two apparently distant musical tonalities. |
Richard Nunns / Mark Lockett
Redaction [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Jun/2015 ] Redaction, featuring renowned taonga pūoro exponent Richard Nunns, one of our longest serving and most consistently adventurous artists, was conceived first and foremost as an art-project. |
Richard Nunns, Natalia Mann, David Long
Utterance [ Rattle Records / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Richard Nunns has been an inspiration to countless artists across a range of disciplines around the world, but his influence on the cultural landscape of Aotearoa is enormous. One simply can't quantify the value of Richard's contribution, not only... |
Rob Sinclair, Bevan Revell
Pansousiance [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Recorded during the first Covid-19 lockdown in New Zealand, the introspective tone of Rob Sinclair and Bevan Revell's Rattle debut evokes the familiar imagery of our post-pandemic world, and it touches on some of the many challenges artists face as... |
ROB THORNE
Whāia te Māramatanga Rob Thorne (taonga puoro & composition) Richard Nunns (purerehua on Waharoa & Gateway) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Whāia Te Māramatanga is a musical passage of identity and connection. A journey of knowledge through action and practice, reclaiming the past for a stronger future, while joining the two in a place that is here, and a time that is now. A... |
GILLILAN WHITEHEAD / ALFRED HILL / DAVID HAMILTON / GARETH FARR etc
Moonstone Robert Ashworth (viola), Sarah Watkins (piano) [ Rattle Records / 2 CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] This 2-disc set of mostly newly commissioned works by New Zealand composers features Robert Ashworth on viola and Sarah Watkins on piano. |
ROSS HARRIS / JONATHAN BESSER
Free Radicals Ross Harris | Jonathan Besser [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Free Radicals were a Wellington-based art music duo active in the early 80s, described by one reviewer as 'Eno meets industrial punk meets Stockhausen'. |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Shadows Crossing Water Stamic Quartet, Jindřich Pazdera (violin) Vilém Veverka (oboe) Patricia Goodson (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] This project began with a concert of my music in Prague in 2012, curated by American-born Prague-based pianist Patricia Goodson and featuring some of Prague's most respected musicians, including the Stamic Quartet, oboist Vilém Veverka, and Patricia... |