WHEAT: THE MUSIC OF FRANK DENYER
(LP: Orchid Records OR3, 1984)
On, On, it must be so; I Await the Sea’s Red Hibiscus; Wheat;
Quick, Quick, the Tamberan is Coming; Quite White; Voices
Performed by: Rohan de Saram (cello); Yoshikazu Iwamoto (shakuhachi); Christopher Taylor (bass flute); Paul Hiley and Frank Denyer (percussion) and others.
Liner notes by Yoshikazu Iwamoto: Thought on folio for shakuhachi
A MONKEY’S PAW
(CD: Continuum CCD 1026, 1991)
Stalks; After the Rain; A Fragile Thread; A Monkey’s Paw; Winged Play
Performed by: Irvine Arditti (violin); Yoshikazu Iwamoto (shakuhachi); Bill Lyons (bass recorder); James Wood (percussion); members of the Endymion Ensemble, New London Choir, Darmstadt Percussion Ensemble
conducted by James Wood and Frank Denyer
Liner notes by James Fulkerson: The Music of Frank Denyer
KONINK & ANDRIESSEN: NOTES 94
(CD: Walpurgis WPR 007, 1995)
Beneath the Fired City and music by Jan Bus, Frank Nuyts, Luc Brewaeys, John Cage and Harry de Wit
performed by: Wim Konink and Marcel Andriessen
THE CONTRABASS SAXOPHONE
(CD: earup CD 1003, 1996)
Resonances of Ancient Sins and music by Mani Planzer, Michael Finnissy, James Clapperton, Urban Mäder, Thomas K.J. Mejer, Sha, Leo Bachmann, Ulrich Krieger, Andrew Toovey and Franco Tosi
performed by: Kontra-Trio (Madeleine Bischof, contrabass-flute; Thomas K. J. Mejer, contrabass saxophone; Leo Bachmann, contrabass-tuba)
FINDING REFUGE IN THE REMAINS
(CD: Etcetera KTC 1221, 1998)
Finding Refuge in the Remains; Quartet; Frog; Archaeology; Contained in a Strange Garden;
The Tender Sadness of Tyrants as They Dance
performed by: The Barton Workshop; Yoshikazu Iwamoto (shakuhachi); Robin Canter (mey); James Wood (percussion); Jos Zwaanenburg (flutes); Manon Heijne (soprano); Alex Robertson (viola); Walter Althammer (conductor)
Liner notes by Bob Gilmore: Finding Refuge in the Remains
FIRED CITY
(CD: Tzadik TZ 7082, 2002)
Towards the Darkness; Beneath the Fired City; Quick, Quick the Tamberan is Coming; The Hanged Fiddler; Resonances of Ancient Sins; Prison Song
performed by: The Barton Workshop; Kontra-Trio with Elizabeth Hall; Percussion Duo Konink & Andriessen; Christopher Taylor
Liner notes by Bob Gilmore: Fired City
FAINT TRACES
(CD: Mode 151, 2005)
Out of the Shattered Shadows 1 and 2; Faint Traces; Music for two Performers; Play; Passages
performed by: The Barton Workshop with Frank Denyer
Liner notes by Bob Gilmore: Faint Traces
MUSIC FOR SHAKUHACHI
(CD: another timbre at03, 2007)
On, on – it must be so, Quite White, Wheat, Unnamed
performed by: Yoshikazu Iwamoto (shakuhachi); Paul Hiley and Frank Denyer (percussion)
Liner notes by Bob Gilmore: Frank Denyer-Music for shakuhachi
SILENCED VOICES
(CD: Mode 198, 2008)
Woman, Viola and Crow; Two Beacons; Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices; Ghosts Again
performed by: Elisabeth Smalt, and Barton Workshop
directed by Frank Denyer
Liner notes by Bob Gilmore: Silenced Voices
WHISPERS
(CD: another timbre at82, 2015)
Whispers; Woman with Jinashi Shakuhachi; Riverine Delusions; Two Voices with Axe; A Woman Singing
performed by: Frank Denyer (voice); Kiku Day (jinashi shakuhachi); Juliet Fraser (voice); Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (muted violin); Elisabeth Smalt (muted viola); Jos Zwaanenburg (flute); Pepe Garcia Rodriguez (percussion); Dario Calderone (muted double-bass); Bob Gilmore (axe); Jamie Man (conductor). The Barton Workshop: James Fulkerson (bass trombone); Jos Zwaanenburg (flute); John Anderson (bass clarinet) ; Marieke Keser (muted violin); Anne Magda de Geus (muted cello); Jamie Swale (bass drum); Frank Denyer (percussion)
Liner notes by Bob Gilmore: Whispers
THE FISH THAT BECAME THE SUN: SONGS OF THE DISPOSSESSED
(CD: another timbre at149, 2019)
performed by: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin), Octandre Ensemble, The New London Chamber Choir, PERC’M Percussion Ensemble directed by George Barton, Consortium 5, Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Sam Cave (mandolin), Elsa Bradley (hammered dulcimer), Pearl and Albert Snow (child vocalists), Yshani Perinpanayagam (harmonium), Christian Mason (whistles and wine glasses), Shane Brennan (cornets)
Matthew Hamilton (vocal conductor), Jon Hargreaves (conductor)
THE BOUNDARIES OF INTIMACY
(CD: another timbre at150, 2019)
Mother, Child and Violin; Two Female Voices and Two Flutes; Piece for Koto (2 versions); String Quartet 2; Beyond the Boundaries of Intimacy; Frog
performed by: Juliet Fraser (soprano), Sophie Fetokaki (soprano), Layla (child vocalist), Nobutaka Yoshizawa (koto), Jos Zwaanenburg (flute and electronics), Carlos Anez (flutes), Elisabeth Smalt (sneh), Luna String Quartet
KIKU DAY, WILD WAYS
(CD: gateway music, DMF, 2019)
Woman with Jinashi Shakuhachi and music by Yuji Takahashi, Morgens Christensen, Roxanna Panufnik, Yumi Hara Cawkwell
MELODIES
(double CD: another timbre at203x2, 2021)
performed by: Scordatura Ensemble, Luna String Quartet, Mad Song, Frank Denyer
Booklet essay by Frank Denyer
SCREENS
(CD: another timbre at220, 2023)
Broken Music; Unison 1; Screens; Unison 3; Five Views of the Path
performed by: Octandre Ensemble conducted by Jonathan Hargreaves, with Juliet Fraser (soprano), Ben Marquise Gilmore (violin)
Liner notes by Christian Mason