New Orchestral Music from Mexico
Five world premiere recordings of orchestral works by Mexican composers Hilda Paredes, Ana Lara, Andrea Chamizo, Marcela Rodríguez and Georgina Derbez, with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Scott Yoo.
Feldman Edition 15: Morton Feldman Plays Feldman
Morton Feldman plays piano in a 1978 Deutschlandfunk concert recorded in Cologne, with flutist Eberhard Blum and percussionist Jan Williams: Why Patterns?, Extensions 3, Intermission 5 and The King of Denmark.
Music for Strings
Three string works written between 2020 and 2023, performed by Ensemble Modern: a nonet locked in seven-eight, a piece that splits sound the way a prism splits light, and a score written in mirror notation. Ikeda's electronic precision, played on bowed strings.
Occam XIII, Occam River XI, Occam V
Three late acoustic works from Éliane Radigue's Occam cycle, written with and performed by bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis: solos and a duo built on minute shifts of tone and resonance.
Lines We Gather
Sarah Saviet [violin] and Joseph Houston [piano] formed their duo in 2019 through a mutual devotion to an intimate, powerful, and transcendental sound language created by the violin and piano. In this album, the Saviet/Houston Duo trace a path through a shifting landscape of melodic contour, with duos by Michael Finnissy, Rebecca Saunders/Enno Poppe, Lawrence Dunn, Iannis Xenakis, and their own collaborative composition. Each work reflects in different ways the intricate contradictions and the p…
Liturgie
Girolamo De Simone (Naples, 1964)—composer, pianist, music historian, proponent of "new music," and publisher of "new discourses" on music (through the magazine *KonSequenz*, established in 1994)—has recently released the CD *Liturgie*. The live recording of the six tracks featured on the CD took place in April 2024 during a piano performance at the Fondazione Morra in Naples, held in conjunction with an exhibition dedicated to the French intermedial poet Henri Chopin (Paris, June 18, 1922 – Lon…
The Electronic Works
Dutch Oscillation Series (DOS) proudly announces the release of a box set featuring the complete electronic works of Ton de Leeuw (1926–1996). This publication marks the first instalment in a new series that brings the history of Dutch electronic music to life for a broad audience. The official presentation will take place on Saturday, 12 September, during the Gaudeamus Festival for contemporary music in Utrecht.
Unique discoveries from the archive. For far too long, twentieth-century Dutch elec…
Yet
“Most times in trauma, there is no exit,” composer Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice writes in her album introduction. “Yet every once in a while, a door is ajar and we are left to wonder if we really could leave. All the music of Yet revolves around suffering in captivity juxtaposed with the possibility of liberation.” Yet is a powerfully imaginative and intimate collection of contemporary classical music that navigates the stark – sometimes Surreal and satirical – landscapes of trauma and hope.
D…
New Colombian Music for Saxophone Quartet
Three first recordings of works for saxophone quartet by Colombian composers Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Carolina Noguera and Rodolfo Acosta, performed by the Madrid-based Sigma Project in composer-supervised sessions.
Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss
First recordings of two long microtonal works by Kraig Grady, The Molten Wind and Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss, built from individually recorded single notes played by an international group of soloists in Grady's just-intonation tunings.
The Story Of Moondog
Dating back to 1957, The Story Of Moondog followed up the previous year's More Moondog LP, setting its course for adventurous new sounds and homemade percussion meditations.The music is never a slave to any one fixed agenda and much of the material here sounds as if its gathered from some undiscovered culture - it's all-but impossible to compare this with anything else from the era, but when the longer-form pieces arrive they augment the more primal, outsider aesthetics with visceral, jazzy arra…
Spaces
'Spaces' is an ode to the joy of live performance. It expresses Frahm’s love for experimentation and answers the call from his fans for a record that truly reflects what they have witnessed during his concerts. Breaking the convention of a traditional live album, 'Spaces' was recorded over the course of two years in different locations and on various mediums, including old portable reel-to-reel recorders and cassette tape decks. The decision to select takes that have people coughing and cell pho…
Found Songs
In April 2009, Iceland’s neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series Found Songs – recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With artwork contributions from fans via Flickr, this modern release awakens memories of a tradition that seemed lost in the digital age we live in. Born in 1987, Ólafur hails from the suburban Icelandic town, Mosfellsbær, just a few kilometres outside of Reykjavík. He has immersed himself completely in a wor…
Press
“It’s hard not to figure Jack Sheen’s compositions primordially; they lurch and rock with an abortive conviction, as if heralding culture’s approach—still half-submerged, slouched and red, ages ago. His work is somehow determinedly before almost everything; it feels like a dialectical twin to Beckett’s afterwards. Press moves with grossly impoverished intent—almost as if composed—while trembling and stumbling on the cusp of accident. This projected bodily timidity corresponds with a situation ri…
John Cage, Elliott Carter, William Schuman, Andrew Imbrie, Harold Blumenfeld, Lou Harrison, Igor Stravinsky, William Bland, Barbara Kolb, Gregg Smith
20th Century Music For Voice & Guitar (LP)1978 LP on Turnabout with several mainly avant-garde compositions or adaptations for voice and guitar performed by Rosalind Rees and David Starobin. With insert.
24 Songs (LP)
A landmark selection of the composer's diverse traditional/avant-garde songs composed in 1922, performed by Helen Boatwright and John Kirkpatrick and released by Overtone in 1954. With insert.
The Four Symphonies (3LP box)
Landmark recordings of the diverse complete symphonies composed between 1898 and 1918 by the modernist/avant-garde composer, performed by different orchestras conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein and Leopold Stokowski, released as a 3LP box set by Columbia in 1968. With insert.
Holidays Symphony (LP)
1970's re-press with brown labels of the 1967 LP on Columbia with the 1913 orchestral by the modernist/avant-garde composer, performed by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Symphony No. 1 / Three Places In New England (LP)
1970's re-press with brown labels of the 1968 LP on Columbia with two orchestral works composed by the modernist/avant-garde composer between 1898 and 1914 and performed by Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy.
Concord Sonata (LP)
1962 LP on Time's superb "Series 2000" curated by Earle Brown with the recording of a landmark performance ny Aloys Kontarsky of the composer's best known avant-garde composition from 1919.