'Can music express?' Frank Corcoran asks. 'My music', he says, 'learned letting go a long time ago.' Corcoran's Second and Third Symphonies (1981 and 1994) explore the notion of randomness against musical order. The Fourth Symphony (1996), is an exercise in material constructed and destructed to form dramatic images. Performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Colman Pearce.

The Vanbrugh Quartet, one of Europe's finest ensembles, plays the String Quartet No. 3 by John Kinsella (b. 1932); Winter's Edge: String Quartet No. 1 by Ian Wilson (b. 1964); String Quartet No. 1 by Walter Beckett (1914-1996) and String Quartet No. 2 by Brian Boydell (b. 1917).

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.