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Debut of the Swedish quartet The Peärls Before Swïne Experience: short commissioned pieces of five or six minutes by Nordic and European composers, contemporary music presented in a concert form close to pop.
Kroumata, Omnibus and the Falu wind quintet play Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques, Anders Eliasson’s Sotto il Segno del Sole for triple brass ensemble and five percussionists, and Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s Chamber Concerto.
Two groups that commissioned much of their own repertoire, the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble and the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, meet in works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Anders Nilsson, with pieces by Hans Kox and Miklós Maros.
Sonanza, the Stockholm ensemble for new music, with guitarist Göran Söllscher: Anders Nilsson’s Divertimento, George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn, Anders Eliasson’s Fogliame and Daniel Börtz’s Ett porträtt.
The Swedish ensemble Sonanza plays Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Anders Nilsson’s Reflections, written in its wake, and Magnus Lindberg’s Ur for five musicians, live electronics and two Macintosh computers.
The first album of the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, with Iwa Sörenson and Boel Adler: Swedish works written for the group by Henrik Strindberg, Arne Mellnäs, Göran Gamstorp, Sven-Erik Bäck, Anders Eliasson and Jan W Morthenson.
Music from the Fools Trilogy of Nya Kulturkvartetten (Jan Bark, Fuzzy, Thord Norman, Folke Rabe), the Swedish inter-media group of 1983-1997: specially built instruments, live playing and pre-recorded electronic sounds.
Live concert by Ensemble SON, the Swedish quartet of Jörgen Pettersson, Magnus Andersson, Jonny Axelsson and Ivo Nilsson, with Barry Guy as guest: music by Richard Barrett, Barry Guy and Roger Doyle where strict notation meets free improvisation.
Almost Starlight is the extraordinary new album by Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin). Produced by Jay Auborn and recorded in a Medieval Church, deep in the Devon countryside, in the Summer of 2025, the music is suffused with light, h…
A canon for three bassoons inspired by Hilma af Klint's 1915 Altarpieces: multiphonics, beating dissonances and whistle tones, between Scelsi, Radigue and Sunn O))). Produced by Randall Dunn.
Iris ter Schiphorst’s music combines political awareness with poetic power, sensual sonority and formal radicalism. In honour of her diverse oeuvre, the Zafraan Ensemble has released a selection of musical collaborations created for her anniversary o…
Five world premiere recordings of orchestral works by Mexican composers Hilda Paredes, Ana Lara, Andrea Chamizo, Marcela Rodríguez and Georgina Derbez, with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Scott Yoo.
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.
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.
Three string works written between 2020 and 2023, performed by Ensemble Modern: a nonet locked in seven-eight, a piece that splits sound the way a prism splits light, and a score written in mirror notation. Ikeda's electronic precision, played on bow…
Tip! Last autumn, Ni Vu Ni Connu released Fagaschinski's debut album as a sole composer, entitled Aerodynamics. The double LP features two large-scale clarinet ensemble pieces: an octet composition performed by The Paranormal Clarinet Society and a n…
Big tip! Sixty years after the groundbreaking premiere of In C forever changed the course of contemporary music, Terry Riley celebrates the work's enduring legacy with a historic live recording captured at Kyoto's Unesco World Heritage site, Kiyomizu…
Three new LPs from the two labels run by Timo van Luijk, Metaphon and La Scie Dorée, offered together.
Robert Nasveld's self-titled LP (Metaphon 029, Signature Series III) collects the only three tape pieces the Dutch pianist and radio producer ever …
Cage was in his late twenties, a Californian, who had served an unlikely apprenticeship under two of the century’s great opposites: Arnold Schoenberg, who thought him gifted but harmonically hopeless, is said to have called him “not a composer, but a…
The works on this CD were realized in collaboration between the composer Germán Toro Pérez and the musicians of PHACE – Petra Ackermann, Mathilde Hoursiangou, Ivana Pristašová-Zaugg and Roland Schueler – over a period of 15 years. They reflect two as…