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McDonald And Giles
Following the meltdown of the original King Crimson lineup, Ian McDonald and Michael Giles brought brother Peter Giles back, which helps to account, in some ways, for the resemblance of this album to the 1968 Giles, Giles & Fripp recordings -- though…
Penumbra
Four beautifully reduced duets, jointly developed by violinist Morgan Evans-Weiler and pianist J.P.A. Falzone. Music which is as delicate as a feather, but also as tough as nails.
Flowers of Emptiness
Eight chamber works by Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith, beautifully performed by Apartment House. The album is structured around the first recordings of three of Linda's string quartets (tracks 1, 6 and 8), along with a short violin duo, a piece…
Zamat
Three recent chamber works by the highly-regarded Slovakian composer Adrián Demoč. The title track 'Zamat' is a 10-minute quartet for clarinet, bass clarinet and cello, which uses slightly asynchronous Korean unisons throughout. 'Gebrechlichkeit' is …
Dawnings
A double album with 5 major new works by the brilliant young composer Eden Lonsdale.
Disc One contains three pieces played by Apartment House:'Aurora' for solo cello'Dawnings', a 32-minute duet for clarinet and piano& 'Cloud Symmetries', a 34-minute …
Curva Triangulus
'Curva Triangulus' is a superb composition from 2021 by Catherine Lamb, written for and played by Ensemble Proton, who are based in Bern, and have access to some of the unusual instruments used in piece, including arciorgano, baroque triple harp, lup…
Outermost Melodies
Double CD of percussion works by Jürg Frey, featuring definitive recordings of works composed between 1994 and 2022. Performed by Ian Antonio, with members of Talujon percussion ensemble on one track. Comes with a pdf of the cover artwork, plus jpegs…
Holde Träume, kehret wieder!
A double album consisting of two versions of Magnus Granberg's 2021 composition 'Holde Träume, kehret wieder!' The first version is for the Nattens inbrott quartet, for which the piece was originally written. The second version, with some extra parts…
Distant Musics
A portrait CD of the early music of US composer Paul Paccione, all 5 works being originally composed between 1980 and 1990. The pieces were recorded in 2023/2024 and are superbly played by Apartment House.
Cover artwork by Anton Lukoszevieze.
Maniera
With yet another striking and forward-thinking work of contemporary composition, Another Timbre returns with “Maniera”, their second outing with the Italian composer, Marco Baldini, following on from last year's brilliant “Vesperi” which sold out wit…
Screens
An extraordinary album of compositions by Frank Denyer, played by Octandre Ensemble. 'Screens' contains five pieces, whose dates of composition range from 1973 to 2021. Anyone listening blind would struggle to identify which were early pieces, and wh…
things that happen again
A portrait CD of UK composer Paul Newland's music, with five pieces dating from 2009 to 2023, all recorded by Apartment House in 2023. A rich variety of music, ranging from string quartet, two different trio combinations, a short work for solo piano,…
Translucent Harmonies
An album from andPlay - Maya Bennardo on violin, and Hannah Levinson on viola. Brilliant performances of two pieces: Catherine Lamb's 'Prisma Interius VIII' (Melodic Duo) and Kristofer Svensson's 'Vid stenmuren blir tanken blomma'.
“Translucent Harmo…
String Trio
"I wrote the piece on a commission from the Concertgebouw Brugge, and it was premiered by the Goeyvaerts Trio as part of the 2019 Slow Festival. The trio played the piece again after the festival, but I always had the feeling that it hadn’t yet arriv…
A History of Musical Pitch
This album contains three works by Seamus Cater, including his creative response to the work of Alexander John Ellis (1814-1890), who presented a paper 'The History of Musical Pitch' to the Royal Society in 1880. Ellis was a mathematician, collector,…
parallaxis forma
"There are many things that for me make Catherine Lamb's music special. I guess first of all, it's music I turn to if I want a certain feeling/mood or experience, of time, and of sound. I've been lucky to hear a few of her recent pieces live, like th…
A Dread of Voids
Two beautiful recent works for ensemble by Australian composer Anthony Pateras, one performed in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia, the other in Berlin.
Patterned Language: Lizzy Welsh violin Erkki Veltheim violinChloë Sobek double bass Alexander Garsden …
Fragments of Reincarnation
A 45-minute single movement piece for shō, Hammond organ and cello, exploring ways of combining the differing tuning systems inherent in the instruments.
Violin and String Quartet
Dating from two years before the composer's death in 1987, 'Violin and String Quartet' lasts two and a quarter hours, throughout which the strings weave gently shifting patterns of sound. It is one of Feldman's most beautiful pieces.
Echo Stane
Nine solos for Hardanger fiddle, composed and performed by Sarah-Jane Summers, a virtuosic Scottish musician based in Norway. Sarah-Jane's music stretches from traditional folk music to experimental work. This album is one of experimental solos, but …