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“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.
Trio For Violin, Cello And Piano / Quartet For Piano And Strings (LP)
Two ensemble pieces by the two most representative American composers of the first half of the 20th Century performed by Cardiff Festival Ensemble and released by Argo in 1975.
Appalachian Spring / Three Places In New England (LP)
Two orchestra pieces by the two most representative American composers of the first half of the 20th Century performed the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Hendl and released on Desto's "American Composers Series" in 1963.
Sonata For Violin And Piano / Sonata No 4 For Violin And Piano / Sonata For Violin & Piano In Three Movements (LP)
Three sonatas for violin and piano composed from 1916 to 1977, performed by Jaime Laredo and Ann Scheinand released on Desto in 1975.
Da Capo In Song (LP)
Vocal compositions performed by Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Constantine Cassolas and Paul Sperry with the Da Capo Chamber Players and released by New World Records in 1984.
Violin Concerto / Little Symphony No. 1 (LP)
First recordings of two acclaimed orchestral works composed respectively in 1954 and 1945, released on Columbia in 1964.
Violin Concertos (LP)
Two 1979 concertos for violin and orchestra performed by Itzhak Perlman with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa, and released by EMI in 1985.
Two Pastels / Andante For Strings / Concerto For English Horn And Orchestra (LP)
Three orchestral works composed in the 1950's and 60's and performed by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by one of the two composers, released on Desto in 1972.
Piano Concerto / Passacaglia Recitatives And Fugue (LP)
Two late 1950's compositions for piano and orchestra performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Igor Buketoff, released by RCA in 1971.
Symphony No. 9 - The Ardeatine Caves / Sinfonia Janiculum - Symphony No. 9 (LP)
First recordings of two 9th symphonies composed in the late 1960's performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, released on RCA in 1971.
Fables
This is the first widely distributed release for Isabel Pine after a series of self released EP’s and singles on Bandcamp. She studied classical music on viola from the age of 3 through into college, where she was on a path to be a performer in a large ensemble, but eventually left after feeling frustrated and limited in a world that did not provide much of an outlet for individual creativity. But the doors of perception really opened when she moved to British Columbia and was exposed to the raw…
Tuscany
*2026 Repress* Los Angeles based pianist, producer, and songwriter John Carroll Kirby traveled to Pietrasanta, Italy in the summer of 2018 on a self-imposed writing trip. During his stay he composed Tuscany, a two side-long solo piano exploration of this particular geographical envelope, a place where nature is shaped into form. Kirby would cycle 12 kilometers each day to Cascata di Malbacco, a waterfall with jade pools and silver stone, and the inspiration for Side A of Tuscany. His own Cascata…
Pax
On Pax, Arvo Pärt’s most emblematic pieces are gathered into a single, quietly radiant anthology, turning his tintinnabuli language into a long meditation on stillness, vulnerability, and the possibility of peace in a noisy, fractured world.
Satie
** 2026 Stock ** Satie is the point where Erik Satie’s so‑called “furniture music” stops being background and becomes a way of listening to the world. In these recordings, Aldo Ciccolini approaches Satie not as a quirky footnote to Debussy and Ravel but as a composer who quietly rewired 20th‑century music from the inside. The repertoire typically centres on the iconic cycles - Trois Gymnopédies, Trois Gnossiennes and companion pieces like the Nocturnes and Trois morceaux en forme de poire - work…