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Bach,J.S. / Pogossian Six Sonatas & Partitas For Solo Violin CD

Departure Duo (Nina Guo, soprano and Edward Kass, bass) releases their debut recording, "Immensity Of," including works by Katherine Balch, John Aylward, Emily Praetorius, and Gy?rgy Kurtg. By...

Seventy years after John Cage introduced it to the concert stage, the toy piano has evolved into an instrument that has inspired and fascinated many composers. This album showcases the toy's ability...

Composer/performer Guy Barash teams up with poet Nick Flynn for this affecting work featuring spoken word and structured improvisation with collaborators Kathleen Supov?, Frank London, Eyal Maoz,...

West Texas native Stephen Barber began playing piano at age three, taking up guitar at age eleven, and composition at age thirteen. As a teenager, he collaborated with Stevie Ray Vaughn and...

Duo della Luna (Susan Botti, soprano/composer; Airi Yoshioka, violin) releases "Mangetsu," centered around the multi-movement title piece that Botti wrote that catalyzed the duo's formation. Botti's...

The centerpiece of violinist Movses Pogossian's "Hommage ? Kurtg" is his recording of Kurtg's "Signs, Games, and Messages" for violin (there are others in the series for different instruments)...

The Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Reuben Blundell release "American Discoveries", a continuation of their series of promoting previously unrecorded orchestral repertoire unearthed at the...

Beaser / Bermel / Norsworthy / Gompper Traceur CD

This 2-CD set includes the inaugural recordings of Beaudoin's music based on microtiming: A refined methodology for translating micro-temporal properties of a recorded performance into standard...

Composer Richard Beaudoin continues his deep investigation into the realm of microtiming with his follow up to his "Microtimings" on New Focus, "Digital Memory and the Archive". Featuring music for...

Piano four hands ensemble DUO Stephanie and Saar (Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia) continue their series of recordings that challenge listeners to hear iconic works in new guises. Catalyzed by...