New Arrivals / Last week
Complete Works for Multiple Piano
In Complete Works for Multiple Piano, Morton Feldman’s quietly radical writing for three or more hands is heard as a three‑hour continuum of hushed, hovering sonorities, where time dilates and the piano becomes a shared, breathing instrument.
Empty Words Part IV (2LP)
Rare 1987 double LP on Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer with the composer himself performing his 1970's text-composition recorded live in 1984. Truly extreme stuff.
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.
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.
Jonah And The Whale (LP)
1973 large-scale oratorio released on unidentified label in 1982.
Five Piano Pieces / Three Ostinati / Six Scenes And A Fantasy / Variations (LP)
Compositions from the 1940's and 1980's for piano solo or in duo with another instrument (cello, clarinet or flute) released on CRS in 1985.
At The Tomb Of Charles Ives / Divertimento / Party Pieces / Academic Graffiti (LP)
Cage's mid-1940's "exquisite corpses" pieces in collaboration with Cowell, Harrison and Thompson, plus Ussachevsky's 1981 electronic valve instrument composition and two 1960's compositions by Harrison and Smit, performed by The Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lukas Foss abd released by Gramavision in 1983.
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.
A Parable Of Death / Intermezzo / Kentuckiana (LP)
1954 LP on Columbia with Foss' cantata for tenor, narrator, chorus and orchestra plus two other orchestral works composed in the 1940/50's.
Bells Of Earth (LP)
Piano music by the Canadian composer self-released on Apparition Records in 1982.
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.
New Music From South America (LP)
Great selection of 1960's South American experimental music for ensemble performed by a composers/performes group led by Lanza, released on Mainstream avant-garde series curated by Earle Brown in 1973.
Geschrieben in Wasser
On geschrieben in wasser., Klaus Lang pares the piano quartet down to a faintly breathing organism, letting soft, slowly shifting harmonies hover at the edge of audibility like something written on water just before it disappears.
For a Lemon Tree
On For a Lemon Tree, Kristofer Svensson, Maya Bennardo and Erik Blennow Calälv cultivate a fragile, glowing sound‑world where violin, bass clarinet and kacapi trace slow, intertwined lines, turning silence, breath and overtone into their primary compositional materials.
Clarinet Quintet
On his Clarinet Quintet, Jürg Frey stretches time until it feels almost weightless, using soft clarinet breaths and hushed strings to trace a slow, luminous drift where tiny inflections become whole landscapes of feeling.
Flare
On Flare, Sylvia Lim turns six chamber works into a series of luminous close‑ups, magnifying tiny shifts of timbre, breath and touch until fragile sounds bloom into something cathartic, raw and quietly destabilising.
Tending
On Tending, James Creed threads four ensemble works through a shared practice of careful, collective attention, letting sparse parts, quiet doublings and gently unstable textures accumulate into music that feels like weather slowly forming in the air around you.
Of Time
On Of Time, Underground Spiritual Game - baritone saxophonist Eden Bareket, bassist Ran Livneh and drummer Eran Fink - trace an imaginary route from city grime to rural trance, fusing Ethiopian jazz, Afrobeat pulse and cosmic free improvisation into a single, slow‑burning ritual.
Conclusio
On Conclusio, Asmus Tietchens bends back toward his industrial roots, folding corroded pulses, cold drones and acerbic detail into a suite that feels like “German Angst” hammered into stark, sculptural sound.
