Grand Chromatic Fantasy (Symphony) For Three Pianos
2016 release **
"In the early days of Wandelweiser records, a disc of music by the forgotten composer Herman Van San extended the label’s scope and helped to cement its aesthetic. He was composing long before there was a Wandelweiser group or label, but his outsider static and innovative music was a perfect fit. This disc of music by the all but unknown Mikheil Shugliashvili achieves a similar purpose. Born in 1941, the composer died in 1996, the year of the label’s first release, but his radi…
Ivory
*2025 stock* Born in Athens, Greek composer Zinovia Arvanitidi is best known as one half of the duo Pill-Oh in Vanishing Mirror as well as her debut solo The Gift of Affliction. Zinovia returns with her first solo piano album titled Ivory, and like its precursors, further highlights her mastery in crafting piano ambiances of austere beauty and melancholia, led by mesmerizing melodies and evolving cinematic textures. Fully self-produced, the now France-based composer navigates through her own tim…
Sky Chord / Haptic Space
The music of Ron Caines arranged for solo piano, string quartet and piano quintet by Laura Cole.
Abendland. Erstes Stundenbuch
1996 release (light storage wear) ** Gianfranco Pernaiachi’s Abendland is a solitary and profound piano solo meditation on sound and silence. The piano hints, rings out and whispers. The sound is crystal clear; essential and like a prism that divides sound into mysterious harmonics and distant resonances. "Abendland“ is a work of great musical poetry, a musical meditation by a composer warranting close attention.
Piano Studies 337
First-time reissue of Willem Nyland's rare private-press piano improvisations. The Dutch chemist-turned-Gurdjieff disciple recorded these spiritual teachings on specially tuned piano in 1960s upstate New York
The Perilous Night / Four Walls
1991 release ** How well early, full notated, Cage is standing the test of time, especially the works for prepared piano and for percussion. The Perilous Night is a 12-minute prepared piano piece completed two years before Cage started his classic Sonatas and Interludes. The Perilous Night, which uses fairly elaborate preparations, is nothing like so well known, although included on Jeanne Kirstein's important 1970 CBS double LP. The connection between Cage and Jasper Johns was re-emphasized whe…
Catalogue d’oiseaux & Petites esquisses d’oiseaux
Olivier Messiaen saw birds as his greatest teachers, capturing their songs with passion and precision. His piano works, especially Catalogue d’oiseaux and Petites esquisses d’oiseaux, translate birdsong into rich, colorful music. Messiaen’s fascination with rhythm, color, and nature shaped his compositions, blending ornithology with spirituality. Pianist Alfonso Gómez delivers an astonishing interpretation on this recording, adding to his acclaimed discography for this label. As Messiaen himself…
De Profundis / Piano Piece No IV / Piano Sonata / Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
1995 release ** "This reading by Anthony de Mare of pianist Frederic Rzewski's compositions is a revelatory reading, in that those works that were written for piano and voice have never been heard outside of the composer's own interpretations. There's the amplified heavy breathing at the beginning of "De Profundis" that gives way to an angular series of scalar arpeggios and staccato phrasing before a long written oratory inspired by Oscar Wilde. At over 26 minutes, and composed for de Mare, Rzew…
The Rain Traces Its Outline
*250 copies limited edition* Composer Taizo Hida was born in 1972 and lives in Osaka. In 2022, the album "of rain," in which pianist Satoko Inoue performs compositions by Hida, was released on Ftarri Classical and received high praise. Two new albums have been issued simultaneously on Ftarri Classical in order to showcase the richness of Taizo Hida's creations. One of these is the CD The Rain Traces Its Outline.
“The Rain Traces Its Outline” is a work for piano that Hida completed in 2023. It wa…
Chanson
2019 release ** "Rippling piano lines fill the air, once again rethinking the possibly of what contemporary Italian music is and was."
Nachschriften / Ländler
Nachschriften: A set of 26 short pieces that cycle through all the major and minor tonalities, Nachschriften are a series of reflections and variations on themes - sometimes, variations on variations. For the most part they are simple dances - minuets, mazurkas, waltzes and ländler. Ländler: The references, the paying of homage to Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf and Zemlinsky are so obvious as to hardly need comment. They are heard through lenses polished by a later, more red…
Il Pianoforte, amato...
Very rare private CD re-issue of Franca Sacchi's privately released artist's records from the mid 70's "Ho sempre desiderato..." and (one piece from) "Essere". "In the early 70's Franca Sacchi approached feminism thanks to the group Rivolta femminile and began a period of reflection that led her to repudiate formal research and to dedicate herself solely to improvisation as a method to manifest her deepest and most universal authenticity. She then shifted her attention from the organization of s…
Mine but for its sublimation
A 64-minute piano solo composed in 2021, performed by Jack Yarbrough. "'Mine but for its sublimation' is about resonance, register, and touch. It is about where we lead ourselves when we trust ourselves. It is experiencing trust as a chain of clearings, a sequence of becomings, openings, centerings. It is about letting go; othering; finding presence through evaporation. Obliteration." - Timothy McCormack
Piano
1994 release ** "Ivo Janssen recorded these works more than 30 years ago. The album presents music by Dutch composers written between 1964 and 1991. Janssen plays these pieces with great authority. "Men Go Their Ways", by Ton de Leeuw,consists of 5 movements and is inspired by a Haiku poem. It is dedicated to Xenakis. I think the piece would be best heard in a resonant, small concert hall in which the delicate reverberated effects could come alive more effectively than over speakers. The movemen…
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*40 copies limited edition, uv-printed tapes with case and no cover* The original tape was found in a very poor condition, luckily transported in caring hands of Nazlo labs and by accident was succesfully restored, digitalized and mastered using special professional vintage French equipment in a medieval castle somewhere in the center of France.
Variations
2025 stock ** ""Marcin Masecki, an outstanding Polish cross-genre pianist, composed the new work inspired by famous composition of Frederic Rzewski and invited another pianist Piotr Nowicki to perform it. Marcin Masecki (born 1982 in Warsaw) is an avant garde pianist. His father was a clarinetist who started playing musical games with him at age 3 and by age 7 Marcin took up piano. He began playing at clubs at age twelve and by the time he was fifteen, he had his own trio. In 2005 he won the mai…
Early Piano Music
2002 release ** "This CD mainly consists of very early pieces by Arthur Vincent Lourié, heavily under the spell of Scriabin & Romanticism."
June 7, 2013
*100 copies limited edition*
Kenneth Kirschner: piano
Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas
Gaiaphilia
The title, Gaiaphilia, is a newly created word to encompass our love and respect for nature and life, this feeling is the theme we hoped to express.
Belt of Orion
Belt of Orion by Stockholm-based Isak Edberg is the composer’s second solo release on XKatedral, and his first to focus solely on instrumental music in the form of two pieces of extended duration for solo piano.