Ben Michaels: for cello, by cellists National Youth Choir of Great Britain choreographed movement and striking new

choreographed movement and striking new sonorities

from Benjamin Britten’s On this Island

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

'No pianist can ignore Maurice Ravel’s five-part cycle Miroirs (Mirrors)

the varying textures and extreme registers stylishly handled

Ben Michaels: for cello, by cellists National Youth Choir of Great Britain choreographed movement and striking newGLOBAL 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