Discography

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CTRL / Absorber (recorded at Kings Place)

Available from Coviello Classics

This CD is in collaboration with pianist Zubin Kanga and features two works by Laurence Osborn. ‘CTRL’ for amplified soprano and ensemble was recorded at Kings Place in February 2020.

This is Riot Ensemble's fifth production on the Coviello Contemporary label.

Ways of Watching (recorded at the Royal Academy of Music)

Available from October House Records

An album full of colour, detail and intricacy, this collaboration between Riot Ensemble and students at the Royal Academy of Music presents works by RAM composers with a focus on graphic scores.

This project is part of Riot Ensemble’s ongoing residency at the Royal Academy of Music.

Leçons de ténèbres (recorded at the University of Huddersfield)

Available from NMC Records

This CD represents a landmark portrait of Patricia Alessandrini, created in close collaboration with the composer in recording sessions spanning three years. Covering the most significant instalments of her creative output over the last decade, Leçons de ténèbres showcases Riot’s extensive experience in close collaboration with composers in pieces that explore the edges of sound and electronics.

This is Riot Ensemble's second co-production with HCR Records.

Vestige (recorded in Cologne at Deutschlandfunk Studios)

Available from Coviello Classics
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Based upon our debut performance at London's Wigmore Hall during the COVID19 Pandemic, Vestige ranges from an intimate vocal solo by Naomi Pinnock, through pensive string trios of Alex Groves and Peter Wilson, to virtuosic chamber music of Ashkan Behzadi, Michaela Catranis and Enno Poppe. The album also includes Elizabeth Lutyens’ Requiescat, which was highlighted by Fiona Maddocks in a review in The Guardian:

“Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-83), whose recognition is long overdue, was among a group of composers commissioned to write a work in memory of Stravinsky, after his death in 1971. The result was Requiescat, which set lines from William Blake’s The Couch of Death, accompanied by string trio: five minutes of ethereal, quietly ebbing music that brings to mind Blake’s angel paintings…Each of these contrasting tracks is played with expression and finesse by this first-rate group.”

Vestige is Riot Ensemble's second co-production with Deutschlandfunk, and fourth production on the Coviello Contemporary label.

Cosmologies (recorded at City University, London)

Available from All That Dust
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Riot Ensemble appears alongside soloist Séverine Ballon in a portrait CD of Aaron Einbond with his work Graphology. The album also features solo performances from Ballon (Xylography) and Alvise Sinivia (Cosmologies) .

“Aaron Holloway-Nahum leads the Riot Ensemble in an essay of supreme restraint, producing the smallest possible swatches of attenuated sounds in their most muted colours to build up a piece that exists without ever quite substantiating into a definable form. In retrospect, the most curious part is the way the musicians hold everything in poise without discernible momentum, yet never lapsing into torpor. The techniques here resemble Lachenmann in extremis, but the usual strained effect heard in music of this type is largely absent.”

- Ben Harper Boring Like a Drill 02.10.23

Cosmologies is Riot Ensemble's debut on the All that Dust label.

Song Offerings (recorded in Cologne at Deutschlandfunk Studios)

Available from Coviello Classics
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Our fourth studio album – Song Offerings – presents a set of four British Song Cycles. This CD takes us back to the very beginning, as in our first professional concert (in 2012) we presented Jonathan Harvey’s Song Offerings alongside a ‘sister’ work dedicated to him from our Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum (Plane Sailing). On this album, these works are found amongst Samantha Fernando’s song cycle for soprano and cello, and our 2017 commission from Laurence Osborn (Micrographia). All works (aside from the Harvey) are world premiere recordings.

Speak, Be Silent (recorded at Air Studios)

Available from NMC Records

Named one of 2019’s most notable recordings by Alex Ross in the New Yorker.

First recordings of music by Chaya Czernowin (Ayre…Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of), Mirela Ivičević (Baby Magnify/Lilith’s New Toy; a Riot Ensemble commission), Liza Lim (Speak, Be Silent; with violin soloist Sarah Saviet) and Rebecca Saunders (Stirrings Still II), alongside Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Ró.

This is Riot Ensemble's second co-production with HCR Records.

Approaching Dutilleux (recorded at The Forge)

Available from Coviello Classics
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Music for oboe, harpischord, percussion and doublebass by Arlenne Sierra, Jose Manuel Serrano, Arne Gieshoff, Chris Roe, Drew Schnurr, and Jenna Lyle.