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Yuanlin Chen Away From Xuan | ||
| Yuanlin Chen, | |||
| BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Melody of China, Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, | |||
| Legends, journeys and chases; reality vs. mystery. |
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Michael Fiday Same Rivers Different | ||
| Jack Kerouac, Matsuo Basho, Michael Fiday, Peter Gizzi, | |||
| Bart Feller, Brianna Goldberg, Carla Kihlstedt, Christopher Froh, Graeme Jennings, James Culley, James Tocco, Laura Sabo, Linda Mark, Mantra Percussion Quartet, Matthias Bossi, Nicholas Naegle, Russell Burge, Shiau-uen Ding, Soon Cho, | |||
| What do Basho and Kerouac have in common? |
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Robert Moran Mantra | ||
| Robert Moran, | |||
| Ensemble Chrismos, Grassauer Bläserensemble, Iowa Percussion, Latvian Radio Chorus, Robert Ridgell, | |||
| Meditations, mad kings, and flooding |
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Andrew Violette Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin | ||
| Andrew Violette, | |||
| Robert Uchida, | |||
| Move over Mr. Goldberg |
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The Phenomenon of Threes Chamber Trios for Flute, Clarinet and Piano | ||
| Dinu Ghezzo, Harold Oliver, Lawrence Moss, Richard Brooks, Ron Mazurek, | |||
| Esther Lamneck, Keith Underwood, Martha Locker, | |||
| Rep problems solved |
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John Fitz Rogers Once Removed | ||
| John Fitz Rogers, | |||
| Cameron Britt, Joseph Eller, Lynn Kompass, Marina Lomazov, Opus Two, Robert Jesselson, Scott Herring, William Terwilliger, | |||
| Music that lingers... |
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Glass Farm Ensemble In Four | ||
| Elizabeth Hoffman, Louis Andriessen, Peter Herbert, Wolfgang Heiniger, Yvonne Troxler, | |||
| Glass Farm Ensemble, | |||
| Not much in common with rock or jazz, but... |
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Douglas J Cuomo Arjuna's Dilemma | ||
| Douglas J Cuomo, | |||
| Alan Johnson, Amit Chatterjee, Anonymous 4, Badal Roy, Bob Franceschini, Ethel, Kathleen Supove, Robert Black, Tony Boutte, | |||
| A Chamber Opera with libretto from the Bhagavad Ghita and poetry of Kabir |
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Jeremy Beck Never Final, Never Gone | ||
| Jeremy Beck, | |||
| Cynthia Ellis, Heather Coltman, Maria Kolaiko, Nevsky String Quartet, Roberta Garten, Tatiana Razoumova, UNI Concert Chorale, UNI Percussion Ensemble, | |||
| More jewels |
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Christopher Adler Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze | ||
| Christopher Adler, | |||
| Alan Lechusza, Christopher Adler, Colin McAllister, NOISE, pulsoptional, Robert Dillon, | |||
| Groove's Dictionary |
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Jacob TV Pitch Black: PRISM Quartet | ||
| Jacob TV, | |||
| Matthew Levy, PRISM Quartet, Taimur Sullivan, Timothy McAllister, | |||
| Chet Baker, Billie Holiday... a blast from the ghetto |
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Nicola Melville Melville's Dozen | ||
| Alex Freeman, Augusta Read Thomas, Carter Pann, Doug Opel, Gabriela Lena Frank, Judith Lang Zaimont, Kevin Beavers, Marc Mellits, Mark Olivieri, Phil Fried, Phillip Rhodes, Stacy Garrop, Stephen Paulus, | |||
| Nicola Melville, | |||
| A generous helping of brand new piano music. |
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Giancarlo Vulcano Vetro | ||
| Giancarlo Vulcano, | |||
| Giancarlo Vulcano, | |||
| Musical self-portraits in a fish tank |
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William Albright Music for Saxophones: PRISM Quartet | ||
| William Albright, | |||
| Marilyn Nonken, Matthew Herskowitz, Matthew Levy, Michael Lowenstern, PRISM Quartet, Taimur Sullivan, University of Michigan Symphony Band, | |||
| Extraordinary sax ensemble music in breathtaking performances |
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Alex Shapiro Notes from the Kelp | ||
| Alex Shapiro, | |||
| Alan Baer, Bradley Haag, Brice Martin, Carolyn Beck, Charles Boito, Connie Kupka, Dan Morris, David Speltz, David Walther, Frank Basile, Kathleen McIntosh, Leslie Lashinsky, Los Angeles Flute Quartet, Miwako Watanabe, Peggy Benkeser, Robin Lorentz, Susanne Kessel, Teresa McCollough, Tom Burritt, Victoria Miskolczy, | |||
| Malibu (now Puget) Sounds |
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Todd Hammes Music for Percussion (Mostly) | ||
| Todd Hammes, | |||
| Tool and Drum Ensemble, | |||
| The raw power of Inconsistencies. |
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Robert Een Hiroshima Maiden | ||
| Robert Een, | |||
| Robert Een, | |||
| Far East meets East Village |
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Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians | ||
| Steve Reich, | |||
| GVSU New Music Ensemble, | |||
| Minimal masterpiece as seen from the heartland. |
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Brian Sacawa American Voices | ||
| Chris Theofanidis, Derek Hurst, Erik Spangler, Keeril Makan, Lee Hyla, Michael Gordon, Philip Glass, | |||
| Brian Sacawa, | |||
| Knocking the saxophone clear of concert hall stereotypes. |
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Andrew Violette Rave | ||
| Andrew Violette, | |||
| Andrew Violette, Curtis Macomber, Gregor Kitzis, | |||
| Restless and comforting. |
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Mary Ellen Childs Dream House | ||
| Mary Ellen Childs, | |||
| Ethel, | |||
| If Ethel were on HGTV |
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David Del Tredici Vintage Alice • Dracula | ||
| David Del Tredici, | |||
| Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Hila Plitmann, | |||
| Two bed-time stories from Mr. Neo Romanticism |
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Mark Applebaum Asylum | ||
| Mark Applebaum, | |||
| Berndt Thurner, Champ d'Action, Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert, Harmida Piano Trio, Magnus Andersson, Mark Applebaum, Skin and Bones, | |||
| A finely tuned compendium of (dis)orders. |
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Ann Millikan The Music of Ann Millikan | ||
| Ann Millikan, | |||
| California EAR Unit, Marc Lowenstein, Nicholas Terry, Patrick O'Keefe, | |||
| The Music of Ann Millikan Featuring the California EAR Unit, "wizards of new music." |
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Teresa LeVelle The Shadowlands | ||
| Teresa LeVelle, | |||
| Alexander Ezerman, Ann Yeung, Carol Stephenson, Danilo Lozano, David Dees, John Gilbert, Mark Menzies, Michael Cameron, Setareh Beheshti, Stephanie Ezerman, Stephen Cook, Theresa Dimond, | |||
| The aliens (and natives) of Los Angeles |
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Music from Stanford <541> Volume 2 | ||
| Alexander Sigman, Christopher Trebue Moore, David Brynjar Franzson, Hans Thomalla, Jose Rio-Pareja, Yaron Sokolov, | |||
| Ensemble, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble SurPlus, inauthentica, Morris Palter, | |||
| Derrida, flamenco, parrots, Icelandic novelists, and Jimi Hendrix. Discuss. |
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Carol Barnett Cyprus, First Impressions | ||
| Carol Barnett, | |||
| Adam Kuenzel, Bradley Greenwald, Christopher Kachian, Claudia White, David Berg, Jane Garvin, Laura Sewell, Laurie Petruconis, Marianne Fleming Bryan, Michael Sutton, Susan Janda, University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble, | |||
| A sonic scrapbook from the Med |
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Barry Schrader Fallen Sparrow | ||
| Barry Schrader, | |||
| Frank Royon Le Mée, Mark Menzies, Vickie Ray, William Powell, | |||
| Music for electronics and live performers |
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Belinda Reynolds Cover | ||
| Belinda Reynolds, | |||
| American Baroque, Citywinds, Claricello, New Millennium Ensemble, Peggy Benkeser, Sergio Puccini, Teresa McCollough, Tom Burritt, | |||
| Take Cover: No one’s ever asked you to listen quite this way before. |
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McAllister/Goodson In Transit | ||
| Gregory Wanamaker, Milton Babbitt, Mischa Zupko, Roshanne Etezady, William Albright, | |||
| Kathryn Goodson, Timothy McAllister, | |||
| This is chamber music on Red Bull. |
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UST Symphonic Wind Ensemble Road to the Stars | ||
| Andrew Boysen, Jr., Arturo Marquez, Guy Woolfenden, Nigel Clarke, Ralph Hultgren, Roger Cichy, | |||
| UST Symphonic Wind Ensemble, | |||
| From Shakespeare to Soyuz, dancing bugs to Bohemians. |
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Jeremy Beck pause and feel and hark | ||
| Jeremy Beck, | |||
| Elizabeth Sadilek, Emilio Colon, Gretchen Brumwell, Heather Coltman, Jean McDonald, Robin Guy, | |||
| “Jeremy Beck is Exhibit A in classical music’s defense against the charge of being out of touch.” - Gramophone (June 2006) |
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Mark Engebretson Where Does Love Go? | ||
| Mark Engebretson, | |||
| Alexander Wagendristel, Brooks Whitehouse, Inara Zandmane, Ingrid Wagner-Kraft, Janet Orenstein, John Fadial, Lorena Guillen, Scott Rawls, Steve Stusek, Susan Fancher, | |||
| ...to the cardinal and the crow |
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Andrew Violette Piano Sonatas Volume Two | ||
| Andrew Violette, | |||
| Andrew Violette, | |||
| Some of the music is not pretty |
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Victor Zupanc Sun and Moon | ||
| Victor Zupanc, | |||
| Victor Zupanc, | |||
| Soundtrack for a Chinese Icarus |
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Society for New Music Pinocchio/Beauty and the Beast | ||
| Michael Gandolfi, R. Murray Schafer, | |||
| Society for New Music, | |||
| Two future classics for children |
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Music from Stanford <541> Volume 1 | ||
| Alex Hills, Atau Tanaka, Charles Nichols, Ching-Wen Chao, Christopher Burns, Christopher Wendell Jones, Damian Keller, David Brynjar Franzson, Jose Rio-Pareja, Matthew Shlomowitz, Nurit Jugend, Oded Ben-Tal, Seungyon-Seny Lee, Sven-Ingo Koch, | |||
| Ann Yi, Armelle Orieux, Atau Tanaka, California EAR Unit, Charles Nichols, Christopher Froh, Christopher Jones, Damian Keller, J. Karla Lemon, Kemmerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Kirsten LeStrange, Lisa Bielawa, Roderick Chadwick, Sirius, Stanford Chamber Strings, | |||
| A glimpse of the future |
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David Dzubay American Midlife | ||
| David Dzubay, | |||
| David Dzubay, Kirk Trevor, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tasha Dzubay, | |||
| There's more to this than lovehandles. |
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20th Century Consort Christopher Kendall | ||
| Allan Schindler, George Rochberg, Joseph Schwantner, Maurice Wright, | |||
| 20th Century Consort, | |||
| Part Three of the 20th Century Consort's epic trilogy |
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Teresa McCollough Music for Hammers and Sticks | ||
| Alex Shapiro, Alvin Singleton, Belinda Reynolds, Joseph Harchanko, Steve Mackey, Zhou Long, | |||
| Peggy Benkeser, Teresa McCollough, Tom Burritt, | |||
| Swords, ploughshares; Hammers, sticks; Piano, percussion... *Sequenza21 Best of 2005* |
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Mark Applebaum Disciplines | ||
| Mark Applebaum, | |||
| Eric Bartlett, Griffin Campbell, Mark Applebaum, Scott Paulson, Shannon Wettstein, Steven Schick, Terry Longshore, | |||
| Compact disciplines |
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Robert Moran Open Veins | ||
| Robert Moran, | |||
| Alexander Balanescu, Ensemble Chrismos, Jayne West, Piano Circus Band, Sound Affairs, | |||
| Open your veins and let the sun shine in. |
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Matthew Smith Archaic | ||
| Matthew Smith, | |||
| Matthew Smith, Zeitgeist, | |||
| The soundtrack to your ancient dreams |
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Gerald Busby Music of Gerald Busby | ||
| Gerald Busby, | |||
| Calvin Hampton, Donald Palma, Gerald Busby, Jenny Haydn Brown, Jerry Grossman, Kenneth Cooper, Michael Parloff, Wendy Young, | |||
| A musical rest stop for rare individuals |
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MIT Wind Ensemble Waking Winds | ||
| Brian Robison, Evan Ziporyn, Gunther Schuller, Peter Child, | |||
| Evan Ziporyn, MIT Wind Ensemble, Young-Nam Kim, | |||
| Wake up to the sound of one of the great wind ensembles |
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Antares Eclipse | ||
| Carter Pann, George Tsontakis, James Matheson, John Mackey, Kevin Puts, Stefan Freund, | |||
| Antares, Eric Huebner, Garrick Zoeter, Rebecca Patterson, Vesselin Gellev, | |||
| Reach for the stars. |
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Society for New Music American Masters for the 21st Century | ||
| Steven Stucky, | |||
| Society for New Music, | |||
| 30 years of commissions by the Syracuse Society for New Music. |
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Judith Shatin Dreamtigers | ||
| Judith Shatin, | |||
| Da Capo Chamber Players, Lucy Shelton, William Zito, | |||
| Put this dreamtiger in your tank. |
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Jeremy Beck Wave | ||
| Jeremy Beck, | |||
| Rayanne Dupuis, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, | |||
| One of the “best new recordings from North America” – Gramophone (June 2006) |
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Klein / Kleinsasser Equipoise | ||
| Joseph Klein, William Kleinsasser, | |||
| Ensemble, John Sampen, Nova Ensemble, Todd Markey, | |||
| Boisterous balance of modernism and mayhem |
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Billband Blurred | ||
| Bill Ryan, | |||
| Billband, David Cossin, Michael Lowenstern, Stephen Gosling, Taimur Sullivan, Todd Reynolds, Wayne DuMaine, | |||
| Rhythmic grooves and driving textures from New York's finest. |
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Andrew Violette The Death of the Hired Man | ||
| Andrew Violette, | |||
| Andrew Violette, Brad Cresswell, Sherry Zannoth, | |||
| Art songs from a mold smasher |
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Lucy Wenger Through an Open Window | ||
| Alan Hovhaness, Bill Rea, Janice Giteck, Paul Schoenfield, | |||
| Lucy Wenger, | |||
| A breath of fresh pianistic air. No bugs. |
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20th Century Consort Lucy Shelton/Soprano | ||
| Gerald Chenoweth, Joseph Schwantner, Richard Wernick, William Doppmann, | |||
| 20th Century Consort, Lucy Shelton, | |||
| one soprano, no tenors |
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20th Century Consort Lambert Orkis/Piano | ||
| Dexter Morrill, George Crumb, Maurice Wright, William Penn, | |||
| James Primosch, Lambert Orkis, | |||
| Reissues of important and wonderful chamber music from the Smithsonian's performance series. 1 of 3 |
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Crumb, Patterson, Gamer Harmony for a New World | ||
| Carlton Gamer, David Crumb, Robert G. Patterson, | |||
| David Colson, John Kinzie, Quattro Mani, Susan Grace, | |||
| Four hands, three composers, one glimpse into eternity. |
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Present Music Kamran Ince: In White | ||
| Kamran Ince, | |||
| Eric Segnitz, Karl Lavine, Philip Bush, Present Music, | |||
| Music to swoon to. |
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Robert Carl Roundabout | ||
| Robert Carl, | |||
| Hartt Contemporary Players, Jerome Pruett, Laura Loewen, Mark Engebretson, Michael Menapace, Percussion 20/20, Robert Black, Robert Carl, | |||
| A sound-mirror held to the world |
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Present Music Haunted America | ||
| Jerome Kitzke, Kimmo Hakola, Michael Torke, | |||
| Present Music, | |||
| Haunted by grit but ready to shout for joy |
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Zeitgeist If Tigers Were Clouds | ||
| Annie Gosfield, Arthur Ferris, Beth Custer, Eleanor Hovda, Johanna M. Beyer, Mildred Couper, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, | |||
| Anatoly Larkin, Carl Witt, Christopher Cunningham, Michelle Kinney, Pat Okeefe, Pauline Oliveros, Philip Blackburn, Yuri Merzhevsky, Zeitgeist, | |||
| Eight decades of women in experimental music. |
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David Dzubay dancesing in a green bay | ||
| David Dzubay, | |||
| Voices of Change, | |||
| This is literary music that paints watercolors on the subconscious and draws the listener in to new worlds beyond the chamber hall. Performed by the Southwest's premiere chamber ensemble, Voices of Change. |
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Andrew Violette Piano Sonatas | ||
| Andrew Violette, | |||
| Andrew Violette, | |||
| Take it from the top: Epic piano sonata becomes religious ritual. |
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David Stock American Accents | ||
| David Stock, | |||
| David Stock, Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony, Susan Gulkis Assadi, | |||
| Seattle takes on Pittsburgh |
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John Howell Morrison Hard Weather Makes Good Wood | ||
| John Howell Morrison, | |||
| Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble, Maria Jette, Troy Gardner, Vivian S Montgomery, | |||
| Eloquent music of struggle, crisis, and overcoming |
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Music of Remembrance Art from Ashes, Vol. 1 | ||
| David Stock, Erwin Schulhoff, Herman Berlinski, Paul Schoenfield, Robert Dauber, | |||
| Music of Remembrance, | |||
| This is music of defiance in the face of death. |
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Mark Winges Freed from Words | ||
| Mark Winges, | |||
| Ancora, Sue Bohlin, The Piedmont Children's Choir, The San Francisco Chamber Singers, | |||
| Think of the mind-blowing choral works of Penderecki, Messiaen, Takemitsu, or Ligeti's brooding score to 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
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Mark Warhol Où est Fleuri Rose? | ||
| Mark Warhol, | |||
| Catherine Issalys, David Harris, John Jensen, Krystal Banfield, Norah Long, | |||
| Welcome to Mark Warhol's world— a cradle of turbulent sound that is delicate, stark, knotty, Babbitt-esque, and wickedly droll. Though unpredictable, there is a haunting, dream-like familiarity to the music and non-narrative style. |
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Ensemble Capriccio and Friends Skrowaczewski’s World | ||
| S. Skrowaczewski, | |||
| Ensemble Capriccio, | |||
| Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Two words. Unsung genius. Also two words... |
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Susan Fancher Ponder Nothing | ||
| Alexander Wagendristel, Ben Johnston, Giacinto Scelsi, Mark Engebretson, Steve Reich, Wolfram Wagner, | |||
| Susan Fancher, | |||
| More of a Yo Yo Ma of the saxophone than a Jan Garbarek or Lisa Simpson, Fancher will make fans out of even the staunchest of saxophobes |
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David Stock Speaking Extravagantly | ||
| David Stock, | |||
| Cuarteto Latinoamericano, | |||
| "Perhaps music is the art of speaking extravagantly." — Charles Ives |
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Newband Harry Partch, Dean Drummond | ||
| Dean Drummond, Harry Partch, | |||
| Newband, | |||
| Collaborators and micronotal pioneers Harry Partch and Dean Drummond have produced a body of work that is far ahead of its time. |
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Rita Dove, Amnon Wolman Thomas and Beulah | ||
| Amnon Wolman, Rita Dove, | |||
| Amnon Wolman, Cynthia Haymon, Ursula Oppens, | |||
| A theatrical song-cycle based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poems by Rita Dove. |
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Flute Force eyewitness | ||
| David Alpher, Elizabeth Brown, Eric Stokes, Gary Shocker, Robert Dick, | |||
| David Alpher, Flute Force, Garrison Keillor, Meridian String Quartet, | |||
| Garrison Keillor leaves Lake Wobegon to narrate on Flute Force's latest release. |
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Musikanten Sacred Choral Music of Robert Evett | ||
| Robert Evett, | |||
| Gerald A. Stacy, Keith Reas, Musikanten, | |||
| Robert Evett (1922-1975) was a highly esteemed American composer who was a major contributor to the cultural life of Washington, DC. |
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Teresa McCollough New American Piano Music | ||
| Alex Shapiro, Charles Griffin, David Rakowski, Elizabeth Pizer, Henry Martin, Steve Heitzeg, Tomas Svoboda, | |||
| Teresa McCollough, | |||
| Jazz idioms, modernistic sonatas, and elegiac styles. A little bit of column A, B, and C, please. |
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Dan Moses Schreier The Shoulder | ||
| Dan Hurlin, Dan Moses Schreier, | |||
| Alan Johnson, Don Chastain, | |||
| Down Main Street through the cornfields to 42nd Street. |
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Jon Deak The Passion of Scrooge or A Christmas Carol | ||
| Jon Deak, | |||
| 20th Century Consort, William Sharp, | |||
| Performed by the 20th Century Consort conducted by Christopher Kendall and featuring William Sharp, baritone, this recording presents Jon Deak's brilliantly inventive music, bringing Dickens' beloved masterpiece into vivid and delightful relief. |
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Paul Schoenfield Cafe Music | ||
| Paul Schoenfield, | |||
| Carol Wincenc, Charles Bernard, Charles Neidich, Don Miller, Frances Renzi, John Sampen, Lev Polyakin, Michael Sachs, Nathaniel Rosen, Paul Schoenfield, Robert Vernon, Stephen Gosling, Thomas Sperl, | |||
| THIS TITLE IS NOW OUT OF PRINT; PLEASE PURCHASE FROM ITUNES OR EMUSIC LINKS. Grammy nominated for David Frost, Classical Producer of the Year, 2000 |
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Richard Dirlam She Sings She Screams | ||
| Christian Lauba, Edison Denisov, Eric Stokes, Jacques Charpentier, Marius Constant, Mark Engebretson, | |||