News from Griffin Music - Summer 2008

McLEOD on CHANDOS, BBC Radio 3 and at the Wigmore Hall

Chandos announces that 10 works by the distinguished Scottish composer John Mcleod are now available on its Chandos Artist Showcase label and can be downloaded as an MP3 file. McLeod has built up an increasing reputation for his orchestral, vocal and chamber works over the past 20 years and the selection presented here is an outstanding example of his brilliantly coloured, challenging and superbly crafted music.

McLeod: Music from Five Continents - Visions from the North

The Gokstad Ship for orchestra (1982)

Symphonic Song-Cycle The Whispered Name (1986)

with Jane Manning (soprano)

Symphonic Song-Cycle Lieder der Jugend (1978) with Raimund Gilvan (tenor)

(Winner of the Guinness Prize for British composers)

- all with the Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra of Krakow

conducted by the composer

A Dramatic Landscape (1990) with Andrew Wilson (clarinet)

RNCM Wind Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell

McLeod:  Piano Music - played by Murray McLachlan

Twelve Preludes (1984)

Piano Sonata No.1 (1978)

Hebridean Dances (1981)

Four Impromptus (1998)

Piano Sonata No.3 (1995)

McLeod: Concerto for clarinet, strings, timpani and percussion (2005)

Linda Merrick (clarinet)

RNCM Symphony orchestra conducted by the composer

Directions: go to www.chandos.net  then click into The Classical Shop.

Click into Search Options and scroll down to Search by Label.

Click to Chandos Artist Showcase then scroll to John McLeod.

You can hear examples free - so no need to buy until you’re sure you want it!

Hear John McLeod's music 'live' at London's Wigmore Hall on Thursday 24 July at 7.30 p.m. when Mark Tanner gives the world premiere of Haflidi's Pictures - 12 aphorisms for piano  based on drawings by the composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson. Also coming soon on BBC Radio 3 is a 'live' relay from the Canterbury 'Sounds New' Festival which features McLeod's Chinese Whispers played by Onyx Brass.

For more information on John McLeod go to www.johnmcleod.uk.com

For more details please enter the website and/or contact John at john.mcleod@btinternet.com

John McLeod’s scores and CDs are available for purchase on line from www.tutti.co.uk