Contemporary Composition / Piano

In the autumn of 2022, knowing his time was running out, Ryuichi Sakamoto summoned every ounce of his remaining strength to give us one last, definitive performance. Opus is that performance - a solo piano concert capturing one of the world's greates…

"Something to Remember" marks a significant new chapter for pianist and composer Juan J. Ochoa, exploring the intimate territories between acoustic and electronic sound worlds. Through prepared piano, traditional piano, and subtle electronic processi…

*2026 stock* It is an unusually bright afternoon in early March when I am writing these lines, while listening to the debut album by Oksana Shymanska. Joan Arnau Pàmies from Protomaterial Records just sent it to me; it was recorded not long ago at th…

*2026 stock* Stefan Lovin's new album "Heaven Shines Like Silver" is set to showcase his unique ability to merge Romanian folk traditions with jazz, fusion, and free-flowing improvisation. With his distinctive piano work and intricate compositions, L…

‘Monochromes II’ is a collection of thirteen solo piano pieces written and performed by Berlin-based composer/pianist Quentin Tolimieri between 2023 and 2025. This is Tolimieri’s second release on elsewhere music, following the 2022 triple album ‘Mon…

Tying every symbol to an idea has made the world manageable, but also predictable. Suspending the pact, delaying to denominate, letting sound remain pre-conceptual for an instant leads to confusion; nameless, all things slip away, lose direction and …

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.

Akira Kosemura’s Polaroid Piano is a record that is very close to my heart. In fact, it is Akira’s work that was one of the drivers for Someone Good, one of the Room40 sibling labels, to be founded. Polaroid Piano marks the beginning of what would la…

With Figures of Glass (Piano Etudes – Edits), Vanessa Wagner offers a new listening perspective on Philip Glass’s Piano Études, shaping a curated selection of edited versions drawn from her acclaimed recording of the complete cycle. These edits do no…

Three compositions from the early 1960's mixing avant-garde techniques and sacred tradition released in 1962 on Cantate.

*2026 Repress* Los Angeles based pianist, producer, and songwriter John Carroll Kirby traveled to Pietrasanta, Italy in the summer of 2018 on a self-imposed writing trip. During his stay he composed Tuscany, a two side-long solo piano exploration of …

On Perseverantia, Vadim Neselovskyi turns his lyric, classically infused jazz language into a meditation on endurance, carving spacious, song‑like structures where fragile melodies, sudden storms and long silences feel like different faces of the sam…

*75 copies limited edition* Piano Studies is a set of pieces recorded on a salvaged piano body at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm. Using free-floating metal preparations and various mallets, these works use this alternative hammer escapement …

** 2026 Stock ** Satie is the point where Erik Satie’s so‑called “furniture music” stops being background and becomes a way of listening to the world. In these recordings, Aldo Ciccolini approaches Satie not as a quirky footnote to Debussy and Ravel …

Four versions of the 1970 piano piece performed by Catherine Collard and released on Philips' "Modern Music Series" in 1972.

Four versions of the 1970 piano piece performed by Catherine Collard and released on Philips' "Modern Music Series" in 1974.

Excerpts from the Karnatic studies for piano inspired by Indian classical music, composed starting from 1957 and performed by the composer himself, released on Philips' "Musique contemporaine / Musik der Gegenwart" in 1968.

Excerpts from the Karnatic studies for piano inspired by Indian classical music, composed starting from 1957 and performed by the composer himself, released on Philips' "Modern Music Series" in 1969.

1976 Japanese LP on Denon with piano music by Xenakis and Messiaen played by Yuji Takahashi. With inserts but no OBI.

1970 recordings of piano music by Messiaen, Del Tredici and Helps released by Desto.