Ben Michaels: for cello, by cellists National Youth Choir of Great Britain The composer Nigel Osborne characterises

The composer Nigel Osborne characterises Coles’s fluent idiom as “happy-sad”

[10]    György Ligeti

joined by Delphian artists Iain Burnside and Philip Higham

choreographed movement and striking new sonorities

the varying textures and extreme registers stylishly handled

Ben Michaels: for cello, by cellists National Youth Choir of Great Britain The composer Nigel Osborne characterisesGLOBAL RELEASE DATE: 18 SEPTEMBER 2026 SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO For his first solo recording, Ben Michaels presents six specially commissioned works, all of them written by fellow cellists whose creative lives extend well beyond the conventional boundaries of instrumental performance. Composers, improvisers, theatre makers and songwriters, Jakob Kullberg, Laura Moody, Ayanna Witter Johnson, Zo Martlew, Kit Downes and Colin Alexander each