Scottish Circus
Two first recordings of John Cage's Scottish Circus (1990) with the Scottish traditional group The Whistlebinkies, plus indoor and outdoor versions of 4'33" for ensemble, recorded at Inverleith House in Edinburgh on DVD with bonus interviews.
Feldman Edition 15: Morton Feldman Plays Feldman
Morton Feldman plays piano in a 1978 Deutschlandfunk concert recorded in Cologne, with flutist Eberhard Blum and percussionist Jan Williams: Why Patterns?, Extensions 3, Intermission 5 and The King of Denmark.
New Colombian Music for Saxophone Quartet
Three first recordings of works for saxophone quartet by Colombian composers Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Carolina Noguera and Rodolfo Acosta, performed by the Madrid-based Sigma Project in composer-supervised sessions.
The Seven Seasons
1991 release ** "Electroacoustic chamber music. In the booklet Mikael Tosti is credited playing electroacoustic violin as well as Ko de Regt, obukano and Henrik Jespersen, electroacoustic saxophone."
Le Beau du Monde / A Modern View on Early Music
Chant 1450 Renaisance Ensemble sings and plays the sacred and secular repertoire of the 15th and 16th century. Including musicians trained at the widely renowned college for early music Schola cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, chant 1450 appeared live in January 2005 and sang then a highly acclaimed first tour in Switzerland with La contenance angloise - sacred music of the 15th century, followed by more than 250 live performances in Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Switzerland until today. chan…
Il Buddha Del Contrabbasso
On the tenth anniversary of Fernando Grillo's death, Enrico Francioni realises a tribute that takes the form of a multimedia project, consisting of an audio CD, a book, the publication of live performances on the web and live concerts. You receive this CD free of charge by purchasing the book ‘Fernando Grillo, The Buddha of the Double Bass’.
Io
Born in Michigan but for most of his life a true Californian, Robert Erickson (1917-1997) had a reputation as a maverick. His musical path was never a straight line, nor, really, a line at all but a landscape, with ranges of features rather than mere points of interest. He was a profound and original musical thinker who embraced the expressive possibilities of all music, from the Western classics and moderns of his own early education to Indian and Balinese traditions and all manner of contempor…
Zensolence
"Zensolence" embodies the auditory canvas of Osmo Tapio Räihälä, a synaesthetic composer who transforms the visual into the musical. For Räihälä, art forms transcend their mediums and speak a universal language through diverse expressions. His experience of colours, shapes and textures in music is reflected in this eclectic album, where the traditional meets the innovative. Räihälä draws inspiration from the abstract and translates it into a musical lexicon that is as diverse as it is distinctiv…
Electroacoustic Chamber Works
Five chamber works with tape and electronics composed by Gerard Pape between 1993 and 1997, performed by soprano Janet Pape, the Arditti Quartet, bassist Nicholas Isherwood, Vox Nova, saxophonist Daniel Kientzy and Ensemble 2e2m.
Swing Bridge; Sizzles
First recordings of two Alvin Lucier works centred on the pipe organ: Swing Bridge (2015) for organ, ensemble and pipe wavers, played by the Australian Art Orchestra with Austin Buckett, and Sizzles (1997) for organ and drums.
Plasmatic Music, Vol. 1
Three works from Horatiu Radulescu's Sound Plasma period, played by Sam Dunscombe and Rebecca Lane: Capricorn's Nostalgic Crickets, Small Infinities' Togetherness and Opus 42, Inner Time / Outer Time. Volume 4 of Mode's Radulescu Edition.
Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin
Other Minds is excited and proud to bring you a near-unheard early composition by legendary American Maverick composer Lou Harrison, Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936), performed by our friend Kate Stenberg. This short piece was written by the precocious composer when he was barely out of high school, still a teenager, but already a year deep into studies under Henry Cowell, studies that occurred during Cowell's stint in San Quentin State Prison.
The piece was entirely unheard from its comp…
Songs Of Synastry And Solitude
*2022 stock.* Brooklyn-based string instrumentalist/composer Jessica Pavone is known for her sparse, melodic music inspired by folk music, improvisation and minimalism. Modeled after the legendary Leonard Cohen album Songs of Love and Hate, these eleven marvelous and lyrical songs for string quartet use hauntingly simple beauty to evoke the ghosts of things lost. Performed by the brilliant young members of the Toomai String Quintet, this is lovely and expressive instrumental music from this eloq…
Back To Life
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Anyone who thinks of multifaceted composer/performer Fred Frith primarily as a guitar player with Henry Cow and for his 1974 album Guitar Solos is way out of touch with what he's been up to in, say, more than 30 years. The 2008 release of Back to Life on Tzadik represents a good opportunity to reconnect with Frith and summarize what he has been doing since the heady days of his scrambling, intense electric guitar improvisations like "Alienated Industrial Sea…
Drone And Melody
This is the second Tzadik release of music by one of the most original and under-appreciated composers of the twentieth century. With José Maceda's passing in 2004, several of his most passionate musical collaborators have been continuing his legacy and they come together here to present his most ambitious and greatest large scale work—Strata. Beautifully recorded in Manila at the University of the Philippines and directed by Maceda's long-time collaborator Ramón Santos and Mills College colleag…
Sextet & Double Sextet
Steve Reich's Sextet (1984) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet (2007) together on one release for the first time, played by the Danish ensemble Ekkozone under percussionist and conductor Mathias Reumert.
In the Asylum
Chamber works by Irish composer Gerald Barry for solo piano, violin and piano, piano trio and piano quartet, played by the Fidelio Trio with Rose Redgrave and the composer. All but In the Asylum are first recordings.
I Like To Think Of Harriet Tubman
Chamber works by Christian Wolff from 1950 to 1987, mostly first recordings, including the Serenade written at sixteen, the Harriet Tubman setting for voice and trio, and For Morty, played by The Barton Workshop under James Fulkerson.
Voces
Three CDs and a 144-page book of Walter Zimmermann's vocal music from 1979-2016, on texts by Eckhart, Hadewijch, Mandelstam, Jabès, Creeley and others, with a 1982 rock and new music band recording, Freunde.
Roger Reynolds at 85, Vol 1: String Quartets
First recordings of Roger Reynolds's recent string quartets FLiGHT (2012-16) and not forgotten (2007-10), by the JACK Quartet under the composer's supervision. First of two volumes marking his 85th birthday.