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Mirage is a collection of sonic illusions, allusions, and transformations that celebrate the piano's unique capability to imitate, echo and morph into other instruments. These compositions reveal and...

Guitarist/composer William Kentner Anderson, "the alert guitarist" (Paul Griffiths, NY Times), has been a champion of new American music for 35 years. He founded the Cygnus Ensemble, and is Artistic...

Living Language is pianist Jacob Greenberg's consideration of musical style and evolving cultural legacy, across a broad range of pieces. This disc explores how composers build on their history with...

On "Beauty Crying Forth," flutist Sarah Frisof presents repertoire spanning one and half centuries for flute by female composers. Including music by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Kaija Saariaho,...

Virtuoso Czech violinist Barbora Kolarova releases her debut recording of solo violin works, including the premiere recording of Pascal Le Boeuf's title track, alongside rarely heard works by Jean...

How would you re-imagine Brahms? What does transformation sound like? Pianist Ann DuHamel posed these questions to five composers-the result is her debut album R?ckblick, a wide-ranging anthology of...

The River Town Duo (Philip Alejo, double bass and Claire Happel Ashe, harp) releases it's debut recording of works dedicated to them by Caroline Shaw, Hannah Lash, Whitney Ashe, Derick Evans, Evan...

Ma is an ancient Japanese concept concerning space and time, which literally means "interval" or "gap" in Japanese. It is a beautiful and philosophically nuanced word, which carries the implication...

Icarus Quartet's debut album, BIG THINGS, is comprised of three substantial works by composers Michael Laurello, Brad Lubman, and Paul Lansky that have helped catalyze the unmistakable aesthetic of...

This is a composer-focused release of works by David Loeb, emphasizing his guitar music, but also including pieces for viols, and for Japanese mouth organ, clarinet quartet, and violin with string...

Hearing It Getting Dark is the debut album of original music. By composer Reinaldo Moya. The album features 4 chamber works, written between 2012-2017: a time which represented Moya's shift from...

Cygnus releases "Entertwined: Compositions by Robert Pollock from 5 Decades", featuring guitarist William Anderson, Cygnus, and the NJ Percussion Ensemble. The album begins with "Revolution",...