For more than 30 years, NMC has steadfastly championed a wide range of contemporary British composers, but until now it has never released a disc devoted to the works of Rebecca Saunders. Over the past two decades she has emerged as one of the leading figures of European music of our time. But perhaps because the London-born Saunders lives in Berlin, she still receives far too few performances in Britain. There has been just one of her works, for instance, in the main series of the BBC Proms, and that was in 2009 – though her music has been regularly programmed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival.
