In 1988 Roger Doyle was asked to compose the music for the Gate Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé. On the opening night much of the music was improvised but through the years and after many performances the music has become more fixed. Performed by the composer, the music on this recording has undergone small changes so that it can exist independently to the theatre production.

Philip Martin performs his Second Piano Concerto and Andreja Malir, for whom it was written, performs the Harp Concerto. The orchestral piece, Beato Angelico, completes this programme played by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductor Kasper de Roo.

Piers Hellawell has integrated ideas from Irish traditional music and Balinese Gamelan music into a very individual musical style. Psappha and the BT Scottish Ensemble perform Sound Carvings from the Water's Edge; Truth or Consequences; Sound Carvings from the Ice Wall; Memorial Cairns and Sound Carvings from Rano Raraku.

Gerald Barry's music has been described as 'the most exciting, most sheerly intense new music...for a long, long time'. This CD contains a selection of his most important chamber pieces, including the Piano Quartet No. 1, a set work for the Leaving Certificate music syllabus. The performers are the Irish group Nua Nós directed by Dáirine Ní Mheadhra.