John Metcalfe

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The Duke Quartet The Millennia Ensemble The Michael Nyman Band Kreisler String Orchestra The London Scratch Orchestra Orkest Amsterdam Drama The Nightjar Orchestra The New Blood Orchestra Wild With Joy Number

ex The Durutti Column

John Metcalfe’s musical experience ranges from his classical work as viola player and leader of the Duke Quartet, to being part of Durutti Column, as well as orchestral arranger for artists such as Simple Minds, Bat For Lashes, Blur and Peter Gabriel.

ALBUMS

Giudizio Universale - Michelangelo And The Secrets Of The Sistine Chapel (Soundtrack To The Rome Auditorium Conciliazione Show)

Simon Richmond And John Metcalfe

2016, 2xLP, Album, Mixed + M/Stick, MPEG-4 Video, WAV, A, ECC100,

2016, CDr, EP, Real World Records

Kites And Echoes

The Appearance Of Colour

Constant Filter

2010, CD, Album, Signum Classics

A Darker Sunset

2008, CD, Album, Big Chill Recordings

Classical/Downtempo

2000, CD, Album, Black Box,

Contemporary/Downtempo/Ambient

CDr, Promo, Smplr, Music Sales Film & TV

Stranger Things (Music From The Netflix Original Series)

2018, 2x Vinyl,

Stranger Things (Music From The Netflix Original Series)

2017, 2xLP, Album, Comp, Gat, Legacy,

A Hard Days Night Treatment

2016, Vinyl, Memory Stick,

Folk Rock/Acoustic

Montserrat Caballé

The Island Of Christianity: Armenia And Artsakh

2013, CDr, DVDr, Blu-ray-R,

The Creole Choir Of Cuba*

2011, 10xFile, FLAC, 24b, Society Of Sound Music, Bowers & Wilkins, Real World Records,

Acoustic/Modern/Avantgarde/Ballad/Contemporary

Tom Kerstens And The G Plus Ensemble*

2008, 14x File,

Contemporary/Post-Modern

1994, CD, Album, Marin Records,

Downtempo/Synth-pop/Classical

Durutti Column*

Greetings Three

Scratch My Back / And I'll Scratch Yours

Modern/Contemporary/Vocal/Ballad/Avantgarde/Acoustic/Post Rock/Classic Rock

Scratch My Back

2010, 2x CD O-Card,

Acoustic/Avantgarde/Ballad/Art Rock

Peter Gabriel / Stephin Merritt

The Book Of Love / Not One Of Us

2020, LP, Album, Sunday Best Recordings

The Durutti Column

Circuses And Bread

Avantgarde/Art Rock

The Durutti Column

M24J (Anthology)

The Durutti Column

A Paean To Wilson

2010, 2x CD Digipak,

Indie Rock/Experimental

The Durutti Column

Four Factory Records

Folk Rock/Abstract/Avantgarde/Art Rock/Ambient/Modern Classical/Experimental

The Durutti Column

Return Of The Sporadic Recordings

2002, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, Kooky

The Durutti Column

The Durutti Column

The Duke Quartet

Barber, Dvořák, Glass

1993, CD, Album, Collins Classics,

Romantic/Modern

The Durutti Column

The Durutti Column

The Durutti Column

Acoustic/Avantgarde

Kreisler String Orchestra

Modern/Post-Modern/Classical

The Durutti Column

Live At The Bottom Line New York

The Durutti Column

The Guitar And Other Machines

The Durutti Column

Valuable Passages

Abstract/Avantgarde

The Durutti Column

Leftfield/Avantgarde

APPEARANCES +

Tree - The Heartwood Remixes

2024, 3xFile, FLAC, EP, Not On Label,

Absence Remixes

2019, File, FLAC, Neue Meister,

2016, 3xFile, AAC, Not On Label

Faded (John Metcalfe Remix)

2019, File, MP3, 320, Fine Line Records (6),

Soul-Jazz/Broken Beat

Everyone Was A Bird - Remixed

Ambient/Experimental

2015, CDr, Single, Lo Recordings

2025, CD, Ltd, Num, Decca,

The WEA / Eastwest Albums 1988-1995

2024, CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album,, Cherry Red,

Acoustic/Pop Rock/Folk/Ballad

All My Love / The Karate Kid

2024, 7", Single, Ltd, Red, Parlophone

Pop Rock/Synth-pop/Alt-Pop

Rex Orange County

The Alexander Technique

2024, 16x File 24-Bit / 44.1-kHz,

Alternative Rock

The Superimposers / The Kramford Look

Golden (Shawn Lee's West Coast Instrumental / Justine

2023, 7", Wonderfulsound

Road To Joy (Bright-Side Mix)

2023, File 24-Bit, 96.0 kHz,

Art Rock/Pop Rock

Songs Of Surrender

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock/Acoustic

So Much (Dark-Side Mix)

2023, File 24-Bit, 96.0 kHz,

Olive Tree (Bright-Side Mix)

2023, File 24-Bit, 96.0 kHz,

AOR/Art Rock/Downtempo/Pop Rock

Playing For Time (Dark-Side Mix)

2023, File 24-Bit, 96.0 kHz,

Matchbox Twenty

Where The Light Goes

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock

Tirer La Nuit Sur Les Étoiles

2023, 2x Vinyl,

2023, Vinyl Clear,

Contemporary R&B/Disco

And Still (Dark-Side Mix)

2023, File 24-Bit, 96.0 kHz,

The Court (Dark-Side Mix)

2023, File 24-Bit, 96.0 kHz,

Four Kinds Of Horses (Bright-Side Mix)

Live And Let Live (Bright-Side Mix)

This Is Home (Dark-Side Mix)

Dancing In The Fire

2022, CD, Album, Gloworks, Gloworks,

The Shapeshifters* Feat. Adi Oasis

Tell Me It's Not Over

2022, File, MP3, 320, Glitterbox,

The Shapeshifters* Feat. Joss Stone

Bring On The Rain

The Shapeshifters* Feat. Kimberly Davis

Love’s Been Waiting

2022, File 320 kbps,

Sam Smith (12), Kim Petras

2022, File 24-Bit 48.0 kHz,

Synth-pop/Hyperpop

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock

Jasdeep Singh Degun

2022, 2x Vinyl,

Indian Classical/Fusion/Modern Classical

Sophie Lloyd Feat. Pauline Taylor

Angels By My Side

The Shapeshifters* Feat. Ramona Renea + Fiorious

Slippery People

The Final Symphony: A Beethoven Anthology

2021, 2xLP, Comp, 180, Z2 Comics, Deutsche Grammophon

English Song Collection

2021, 25xCD, RE + Box, Comp, Naxos,

Modern/Romantic/Contemporary

The Shapeshifters* Feat. Aria Lyric

Music Of The Spheres

The Shapeshifters* Feat. Teni Tinks

Andrew Kawczynski

The Eight Hundred [Original Movie Soundtrack]

Graham Gouldman

Modesty Forbids

2020, Vinyl 180g,

The Next Billion Years

Post-Modern/Contemporary

2019, 2x Vinyl 180g,

Alternative Rock

Rex Orange County

Håkan Hellström

Sound Of Silence

The Cranberries

Alternative Rock

2018, File, WAV, Deutsche Grammophon,

Live At Alpemare, Forte Dei Marmi

2018, 12", Single, Sugar (2),

Revamp: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin

Ballad/Pop Rock

Ane Brun, The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra*

Live At Berwaldhallen

On The Nature Of Daylight

2017, 12", Single, StudioRichter, Deutsche Grammophon,

2017, CD, Comp, Silva Screen

Tom Kerstens' G Plus Ensemble*

2017, CD, Album, BGS Records,

A L I E N S (Markus Dravs Remix)

Alternative Rock

Kaleidoscope EP

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock

Soundtrack/Neo-Romantic

Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

Modern Classical

Twelve Tales Of Christmas

Vocal/Ballad/Holiday

Bowers & Wilkins Live

2016, 10xFile, FLAC, Comp, Society of Sound Music

Soundtrack/Neo-Classical

Emilie-Claire Barlow With The Metropole Orkest* Conducted By Jules Buckley

Fresh Handmade Sound / The Planets

2015, 2xCD, Album, P/Mixed, LUSH,

Field Recording/Folk

Drum n Bass/Jungle

Flags Of The Old Regime

Acoustic/Ballad

Now That's What I Call Christmas

Novelty/Glam/Pop Rock/Easy Listening/Synth-pop/Vocal/Holiday

Sheema Mukherjee

2014, LP, Album + M/Stick, MPEG-4 Video, WAV, Album, ECC100,

Britten*, Emperor Quartet*

String Quartet In F / Simple Symphony / Rhapsody / Phantasy / Quartettino

2014, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, BIS

Modern Classical/Neo-Classical/Contemporary/Ambient/Spoken Word

Megan Washington

2014, 2x Vinyl Gatefold

Indie Pop/Downtempo/Breaks/Electro House/Ambient

Parklife / The Great Escape

2013, CD, CD, Box Set,

Indie Rock/Britpop

Disconnect (Music From The Motion Picture)

Downtempo/Indie Pop/Synth-pop

The Sound Of Dubstep Classics

Indie Pop/Europop/House/Downtempo/Breaks

The Haunted Man

2012, CD Digisleeve,

2012, Vinyl Golden,

Blur 21 (The Box)

2012, Box Set, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, 2x CD, 2x CD, 3x DVD, Vinyl,

Leftfield/Indie Rock/Music Hall/House/Shoegaze/Punk/Lo-Fi/Art Rock/Dub/Afrobeat/Krautrock/Acoustic/Synth-pop/Ballad/Britpop

Kate Miller-Heidke

Symphonic Rock/Art Rock

Les Beaux Labels (Volume 1)

2011, 5xCD, Comp + Box, Les Inrockuptibles,

Alternative Rock/Garage Rock/Grunge/Indie Rock/New Wave/Post-Punk/Pop Rock/Synth-pop

Live For What I'd Die For

2011, CD, Single, Promo, Island Records,

Breakbeat/House/Drum n Bass/Synth-pop

New Blood - Live In London

Modern/Classic Rock/Symphonic Rock

The Cranberries

Fresh Handmade Sound / Synaesthesia

Angus & Julia Stone

2010, Box, Comp, Sli + 3xCD, Album + Ltd, Med, EMI, Capitol Records,

Folk Rock/Acoustic/Folk

Jonny Greenwood

2010, CD Cardboard Sleeve,

Soundtrack/Modern Classical/Krautrock

Angus & Julia Stone

Memories Of An Old Friend

2010, CD Digipak,

Folk Rock/Acoustic/Folk

The Imagined Village

Scratch My Back

Modern/Avantgarde/Ballad

Angus & Julia Stone

2010, CD Digipak,

Chilled II 1991-2009

2009, 3xCD, Comp, Mixed, Ministry Of Sound,

Downtempo/Deep House/Ambient

Grace / Wastelands

War Child Heroes

Pop Rock/Funk/Indie Rock

The Great Escape

Lady Of The Sunshine

Blues Rock/Acoustic

To Lose My Life

To Lose My Life...

New Wave/Indie Rock

Christophe Willem

Farewell To The Fairground

Indie Rock/Post-Punk/Breaks/New Wave

Alexandra Burke

Ballad/Vocal/Contemporary R&B

Abstract/Synth-pop/Free Improvisation/Conscious

The 7" Singles '88-'91

2009, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Box Set,

The International Collection Volume Five: Ibiza

2008, CD, Comp, IDJ (International DJ Magazine),

House/Downtempo

Bryn Christopher

2008, CD, Single, Promo, Polydor,

Contemporary R&B

Valse Avec Bachir (Musique Originale De)

Soundtrack/New Wave/Modern Classical/Synth-pop/Experimental

24 Postcards In Full Colour

Modern Classical/Experimental/Ambient/Contemporary/Electroacoustic

Rain On Your Parade

Angus And Julia Stone*

A Book Like This

Folk Rock/Acoustic

The Boy With No Name

The Brit Box (UK Indie, Shoegaze, And Brit-Pop Gems Of The Last Millennium)

2007, Box Set, 4x CD,

Alternative Rock/Garage Rock/Indie Rock/Lo-Fi/Britpop/Shoegaze

2007, Vinyl 1/2,

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock

In One Way Or Another

2006, CD, Album, Rush! Production,

Trip Hop/Downtempo

Steve Reich / Marc Mellits - The Duke Quartet

Different Trains, Piano Phase / String Quartet No. 2

2006, CD, Album, Black Box

Bees + Things + Flowers

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz

Songs From Before

The Divine Comedy

Victory For The Comic Muse

Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra

Strings & Things

Downtempo/Experimental/Easy Listening

Stephen Fretwell

Live At The Bloomsbury Theatre, London

The Ordinary Boys

Indie Rock/Britpop/Ska

2005, CD MediaMotion,

Soundtrack/Contemporary/Classical

2004, CD, Album, BGS Records

Happiness In Magazines

Power Pop/Punk/Lo-Fi/Britpop

The Blue Notebooks

Modern Classical/Spoken Word/Ambient

Freakin' Out / All Over Me

2003, CD, Comp, Promo, Audio (2), EMI,

Indie Rock/New Wave/Art Rock/Prog Rock/Vocal

Russ Gabriel Feat. Corrina Joseph

Future Jazz/Deep House

Into The Unknown

Future Jazz/Downtempo

Offenbach West / Live At The Nugget

Simon Haram - The Duke Quartet

2001, CD, Album, Black Box

2001, CD, Comp, Enh, Promo, Smplr, Black Box

Future Jazz/Deep House

21st Century Noise - 12 New Bands For The New Millennium

2000, CD, Comp, Melody Maker,

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock

Fall From Grace

Trance/Pop Rock

tintinout* Featuring Wendy Page

Trance/Downtempo

Downtempo/Euro House

The Magic Treehouse

Folk Rock/Britpop

¡Viva El Amor!

Blues Rock/Acoustic/Pop Rock

Tears From A Willow

House/Euro House/Eurodance

Tin Tin Out With Shelley Nelson

Britpop/Indie Rock

Talk On Corners

1998, CD WMO Pressing,

House/Soft Rock/Pop Rock

I Love My Friends

Schoenberg*, Berg*, The Duke Quartet, Helen Kamminga, Sophie Harris

Verklärte Nacht, Lyric Suite

1997, CD, Collins Classics,

Modern/Twelve-tone

The Bridge School Concerts Vol. One

1997, 2x Vinyl,

Country Rock/Pop Rock/Classic Rock

Pleased To Meet You

Pop Rock/Indie Rock

Downtempo/Trip Hop

Deejay Parade Estate '97

Euro House/Italodance/Techno/Trance

The Duke Quartet - Vasks*, Tüür* & Pärt*

Baltic Elegy: String Quartets By Vasks, Tüür & Pärt

1996, CD, Album, Collins Classics,

Starting At The End

1996, CD, Maxi, BMG Ariola München GmbH

Orkest Amsterdam Drama, Maurice Horsthuis

Drama In Concert / 1994

1996, CD, Album, Cococon

Charles Ives - BBC Singers, The Duke Quartet, Christopher Hughes, Members of The New London Orchestra*, Stephen Cleobury

The Celestial Country / Psalm Settings / Easter Carol / Crossing The Bar

1996, CD, Album, Collins Classics

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Simon Keenlyside, Graham Johnson (2), The Duke Quartet, Ralph Vaughan Williams

The English Song Series Volume 1

The Factory Masters

1995, 2xCD, Comp, Catalyst, BMG,

Contemporary/Experimental

Kevin Volans - The Duke Quartet

The Ramanujan Notebooks / Dancers On A Plane / 'Movement' For String Quartet

1995, CD, Collins Classics,

Shostakovich* / Schnittke* / Tchaikovsky*, The Duke Quartet

String Quartet No.8 / No.2 / No.1

1995, CD, Collins Classics

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock/Acoustic

The Great Escape

In The Best Possible Taste

Acoustic/Pop Rock

The Isle Of View

Acoustic/Soft Rock

Sense Of Purpose

Post Rock/Experimental

Indie Rock/Britpop

John Tavener / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Contemporary/Modern

The Greetings Compact

1993, CD, Album, Comp, Materiali Sonori,

New Wave/Modern Classical

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Soft Rock/Hard Rock

Durutti Column*

Lips That Would Kiss (Form Prayers To Broken Stone)

1990, CD, Comp, Materiali Sonori,

Modern Classical/Darkwave/New Wave/Ambient/Synth-pop/Experimental

The Sweet Keeper

Contemporary/Post-Modern

Duke String Quartet*

Modern/Classical

Contemporary/Classical

Adrian Borland And The Citizens*

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock

Distant Cousins

Distant Cousins

Factory Classical Label 1989

Modern/Post-Modern/Classical

DV8 (10) And The Durutti Column

When The World (Newson Mix)

Everyday Is Like Sunday

Greetings From S.G.V - The Greetings Box

1987, 3x12" + Box, Comp, Materiali Sonori, Materiali Sonori, Materiali Sonori,

Art Rock/Downtempo/Ambient/Synth-pop

The Durutti Column With Debi Diamond*

The City Of Our Lady

Out Of The Long Dark / Old Heartland

CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + Comp, BGO Records,

Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Jazz

John McCormack*

John McCormack Sings Songs

The Sound Of Real World

2019, 12xFile, FLAC, Comp, Society of Sound Music

Listen And You’ll See (10 Years Of Society Of Sound)

2018, 21xFile, AIFF, Comp, Society of Sound Music

Le Café Abstrait Volume 12

2018, 3xCD, Comp, Mixed, Stereo Deluxe, Abstrait,

Ambient/Downtempo

Hospital: We Are 21

Everyone Was A Bird - Remixed

Tom Kerstens' G Plus Ensemble*

Contemporary/Post-Modern

2009, CD, Comp, Smplr, New Sounds 2000, Emme K Editore

Café Paradiso - Luxury Chilled Grooves

2008, 2xCD, Comp, Mixed, Park Lane Recordings,

Independent Innovative Creative

2008, CD, Promo, Pias

Now Hear This! (15 Great Tunes Hand-Picked By The Word) (September 2008)

A Late Junction Compilation #1

CD, Comp, Promo, Music Sales Film & TV,

Ambient/Modern Classical/Soundtrack

AOR/Art Rock/Downtempo/Pop Rock

Music Of The Spheres Vol.1 From Earth With Love

Graham Gouldman

Modesty Forbids

Soft Rock/Art Rock

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock

The Cranberries

Alternative Rock

Revamp: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin

Ballad/Pop Rock

2014, CD, DVD, All Media Digipak,

Alternative Rock/House

New Blood - Live In London

Art Rock/Symphonic Rock

The Cranberries

Scratch My Back

Acoustic/Avantgarde/Ballad

Grace/Wastelands

Acoustic/Indie Rock

To Lose My Life...

New Wave/Indie Rock

The Boy With No Name

Soundtrack/Contemporary/Classical

The Great Escape

Indie Rock/Britpop

The Ordinary Boys

New Wave/Pop Rock/Punk/Indie Rock/Ska

The Divine Comedy

Victory For The Comic Muse

Acoustic/Britpop