Composition / Minimalism

* 2021 Stock * LSO Live explore the music of America’s most influential living composer with performances of three of his most iconic works: Sextet, Clapping Music and Music for Pieces of Wood.  Employing Steve Reich’s universally recognisable sound-…

* 2021 stock * Steve Reich's landmark Music for 18 Musicians is perhaps Steve Reich’s most popular, if not most important, piece of music. Defining characteristics of Music for 18 Musicians piece include an ethereal, trance vibe, pulsating bass clari…

Marc Chan's My Wounded Head 3, an open-ended piano piece inspired by Bach's Passion chorales, played in a 72-minute continuous recording by Rob Haskins.

The first complete recording of Walter Zimmermann's string quartets by the Sonar Quartett, with Songs of Innocence & Experience after William Blake, Festina Lente and Fränkische Tänze, plus solo works for violin and for viola with voice.

First CD recording of Songbirdsongs by John Luther Adams, a cycle for piccolos, ocarinas, flutes and percussion based on real bird songs, with Callithumpian Consort, plus Strange Birds Passing.

John Luther Adams's Strange and Sacred Noise, a nine-movement work for percussion quartet, in the composer-supervised first recording by Percussion Group Cincinnati, with a 60-minute interview with the composer.

Three works by Peter Garland, Another Sunrise, Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage and I Have Had to Learn the Simplest Things Last, for pianos, harpsichord, voices and percussion, with Aki Takahashi and Essential Music.

*Includes 24-page booklet with photos and liner notes* Steve Reich's commercial success had ballooned after his prior release on ECM, Music for 18 Musicians, and this collection of three compositions, two new and one from 1967, was the follow-up. Mus…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents In Memoriam Paul Zukofsky. This album presents the last music program designed by the late violinist/conductor Paul Zukofsky. Both Monkeys At Play and Josef Hauer’s Zwölftonspiel are first recordings. The prog…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Syzygia and Snow's Falling by Jo Kondo; Pine Cones Fall by Craig Pepples. Performed by Ensemble Nomad; Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Satoko Inoue, piano; Paul Zukofsky, conductor. All recordings were made at Avac…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Mulberry / In the Woods / In Summer / Under the Umbrella by Jo Kondo. Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Paul Zukofsky, conductor; Nexus. Mulberry, In the Woods, and In Summer are edited versi…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Zygmunt Krauze: Aus Aller Welt Stammende, Toshi Ichiyanagi: Transfiguration Of The Moon, John Cage: (1912 - 1992) Hymnkus (version for violin). The Krauze was recorded at Hip Pocket Studios, N.Y.C., on Dec. 10…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Artur Schnabel: String Quartets 1 & 4; Sonata for Cello. Performed by The Whitman String Quartet, A Freelance String Quartet, Joel Krosnick, Cello. All recordings were made at the Clinton Recording Studios, In…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Shapey - Riegger - Piston - Crumb - Sollberger - Berger. Ralph Shapey: (1921-2002) Evocation For Violin, Piano, And Percussion; with Raymond Desroches, percussion; Publisher: Theodore Presser Co. Wallingford R…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Roger Sessions: Duo for Violin and Piano, Sonata for Violin; Peter Mennin: Sonata Concertante; Easley Blackwood: Second Sonata. Performed by Paul Zukofsky, violin; Gilbert Kalish, Easley Blackwood, pianos. The…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Jo Kondo: Hagoromo. Performed By Teresa Shaw, Mezzo-soprano; Tomoko Shiota, Narrator; London Sinfonietta; Paul Zukofsky, Conductor. Written under commission from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and premiered t…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents John Cage: 16 Dances; Armin Loos: Sonata No​.​2 for Violin and Piano. Performed by New Music Concerts, Paul Zukofsky, Conductor; Paul Zukofsky, Violin, Michael Torre, Piano. This recording was originally relea…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Milton Babbitt: Septet But Equal; Fourplay; Morton Feldman: Instruments 1; Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano. Perfomed by b, conductor; Composers Ensemble. All works recorded at Studio 2, BBC Maida Vale, Delawa…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Artur Schnabel: Dance and Secret & Joy and Peace; Sonata for Solo Violin  performed by Paul Zukofsky, Conductor and Violinist; The Gregg Smith Singers. Dance and Secret & Joy and Peace by Artur Schnabel were r…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Artur Schnabel: Symphonies 1 & 3. Performed by The Bbc Symphony Orchestra; The Prague Symphony Orchestra; Paul Zukofsky, Conductor. Symphony No. 1 by Artur Schnabel was recorded April 26-28, 1994 at Maida Vale…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Dane Rudhyar: Five Stanzas; Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas & Melisande, Op. 5 by Colonial Symphony and Sinfóníuhljómsveit Æskunnar; Paul Zukofsky, conductor. Sinfóníuhljómsveit Æskunnar (the Youth Orchestra of Ice…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Symphony No. 2 by Artur Schnabel. Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Paul Zukofsky, conductor. Recorded July 18-20, 1988, at All Saints Church, in Tooting, London, England.

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents John Cage: Chorals / Cheap Imitation / Freeman Etudes I​-​VIII performed by Paul Zukofsky, violin. The original recording of the Freeman Etudes was supported in part by public funds from the New York State Cou…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Morton Feldman: Spring of Chosroes and Artur Schnabel: Sonata for Violin and Piano by Paul Zukofsky, violin; Ursula Oppens, piano. Recorded at the Library of Congress, May 11-12, 1979. Spring of Chosroes is pu…

** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Morton Feldman: For John Cage by Paul Zukofsky, violin; Marianne Schroeder, piano. This recording was supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.The generous support of Betty…

A sparse and subtle jungle comprises the pieces that make up "Pietra e Oggetto". It is subtle, as such it remains in the memory. Thanks to the device of silence, which is like the air in between things, it allows time for what we have heard to imprin…

An unexpected musical combination of two masterpieces of modern music rethought through the use of contemporary electronic instruments that marvels at lively and innovative sounds, in the version with keyboards and electronics presented at Terraforma…

The second release to be drawn from Orange Mountain Music's Philip Glass Archive series, this disc - if you hadn't guessed - focuses on the composer's orchestral works, namely his compositions Days And Nights In Rocinha and Persephone. The former of …

* Edition of 200 * In what might appear to be a paradox of logic, much of the history of avant-garde music - from Eric Satie, John Cage, and Morton Feldman, through the minimalists, post-minimalists, and beyond - has presented new forms radicalism th…

Eventless Plot is the collective name for three musicians from Thessaloniki, Greece, who compose together. Vasilis Liolios, Aris Giatis and Yiannis Tsirikoglou have been collaborating in this way since they met as students 20 years ago. They bring in…

Guitarist Cristián Alvear was born in 1979 and lives in Santiago, Chile. Active on the international contemporary/experimental music scene, he has since 2010 released numerous recordings on labels in various countries. Musician and programmer Klaus F…

This is the third and final chapter of a project/research on "minimalisms" that the Italian flutist Manuel Zurria, acclaimed instrumentalist and passionate lover of the more adventurous contemporary music, began in 2007. The double CD include near tw…

Four percussion works by Australian composer Thomas Meadowcroft, 2000-2011, played by Speak Percussion: The Great Knot, Cradles, Plain Moving Landfill and Home Organs, using junk and domestic instruments such as electric organs and drum machines.

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.

Facsimile reprint of Walter Zimmermann's book Desert Plants, his interviews with American experimental composers from a 1976 trip to America

**300 copies** "There have been quite a few releases of Antoine Beuger’s music over the past several years and it’s an odd, and very pleasurable thing to consider them en masse. On the one hand, his music is so diaphanous, so air-suffused that you’d …

Expanded 3-CD reissue of Walter Zimmermann's Lokale Musik, first issued in 1982 as a 3-LP set: two CDs remastered from the analog tapes, a third with new supplemental recordings and revised works, and a 60-page book.

**2019 stock, reduced price** The Photographer is a chamber opera by world renowned composer Philip Glass, first performed in 1982 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. The story revolves around the life and work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the 1…

Éliane Radigue's complete Naldjorlak trilogy (2004-2009): I for cello (Charles Curtis), II for two basset horns (Carol Robinson, Bruno Martinez), III for all three. Recorded in Paris in 2011 by Daniel Deshays. 3CD.

Sergio Sorrentino plays American music for electric guitar by Cage, Feldman, Wolff, Lang, Vees, Sharp, Curran, Polansky and Stiefel, including the first CD release of Feldman's The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar.