Cold Blue Music

  • Trios for Deep Voices
    Trios for Deep Voices

    $18.99

    Christopher Roberts’s five intimate and virtuosic movements/pieces for a trio of double basses are here performed by the composer and two other virtuosos of the instrument, Mark Morton and James Bergman. This music, much of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2009

  • The Webster Cycles
    The Webster Cycles

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    The Webster Cycles, scored for six trombones, is at times richly textured, at times stark, but always engaging. From moment to moment, an individual trombone may call out or murmur or a few may unite...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 01, 2008

  • Lentz: In the Sea of Ionia
    Lentz: In the Sea of Ionia

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    This album - which features Grammy�-nominated pianist Aron Kallay - presents four recent keyboard pieces by seminal West Coast composer Daniel Lentz: two works for solo piano, and two works for multiple pianos (all performed...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2015

  • Byron: In the Village of Hope
    Byron: In the Village of Hope

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    Michael Byron’s music, which has appeared on four previous Cold Blue CDs, tends to be harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed, and virtuosic. It is often praised for its ability to create uniquely dense constructions out of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 2015

  • Fink: From a Folio
    Fink: From a Folio

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    A darkly sublime suite of seven pieces for cello and piano performed by the LA-based composer and noted new-music cellist Derek Stein. As the music unfolds, the listener is drawn into a highly nuanced, lyrical...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2014

  • Michael Byron: Fabric for String Noise
    Michael Byron: Fabric for String Noise

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    Michael Byron's title piece, "Fabric for String Noise," performed by NYC's String Noise (violinists Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, deemed "New York's most daring violin duo" by "TimeOut New York"), is a wildly virtuosic...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 08, 2019

  • Robert Carl: Splectra
    Robert Carl: Splectra

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    Splectra is an elegant harp solo embellished by a subtle digital processing that highlights certain harmonics as they appear in the piece. Each of the work's two sections gradually expands a simple rising motive, becoming...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2019

  • Bridges of Pearl and Dust
    Bridges of Pearl and Dust

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    Bridges of Pearl and Dust is virtuosic music for four vibraphones. Polyrhythmic and contrapuntal, it rings out with both inevitably and surprise as it moves through a series of beautiful harmonies. It's continuous activity seems...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2019

  • Adams: Waves & Particles / JACK Quartet
    Adams: Waves & Particles / JACK Quartet

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    "Waves and Particles" is Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning composer John Luther Adams’s beautifully shimmery, virtuosic string quartet, performed by the incredible, illustrious JACK Quartet. Adams’s music has been performed by such prominent ensembles as the New...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 17, 2024

    Grammy Award
    Grammy Award Nominee
  • Cerrone: Beaufort Scales / Lorelei Ensemble
    Cerrone: Beaufort Scales / Lorelei Ensemble

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    Beaufort Scales is Grammy-nominee and Pulitzer finalist composer Christopher Cerrone’s lush, dramatic, alluring music for women’s voices and electronics, performed by the acclaimed Lorelei Ensemble. Its text is drawn from the Beaufort Wind Force Scale...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 17, 2024

    Grammy Award
    Grammy Award Nominee
  • Adams: Darkness & Scattered Light / Robert Black
    Adams: Darkness & Scattered Light / Robert Black

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    “Darkness and Scattered Light” presents celebrated Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning composer John Luther Adams’s mesmerizing; elegant; virtuosic music for double bass—two solos and a work for five basses—written for and all performed by bassist extraordinaire Robert...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 15, 2023

  • Garland: The Basketweave Elegies - Vibraphone Music / Winant
    Garland: The Basketweave Elegies - Vibraphone Music / Winant

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    Peter Garland’s “The Basketweave Elegies” is an enchanting nine-movement work for solo vibraphone, performed by celebrated percussionist William Winant. Garland writes: “I want to write music that is well-made, sturdy, useful, and beautiful—like a basket.”...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 10, 2023

  • Byron: Halcyon Days / Moore, Ray-Kallay Duo, Winant Percussion Group
    Byron: Halcyon Days / Moore, Ray-Kallay Duo, Winant Percussion Group

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    Michael Byron’s “Halcyon Days” is music for marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, glockenspiels, tubular bells, maracas, and piano. Except for the final piece (from 2016), these pieces are from a previously under-documented period of Byron’s work—the mid-seventies,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 10, 2023

  • Chase: Tiny Thunder - Piano Music / Pezzone
    Chase: Tiny Thunder - Piano Music / Pezzone

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    “Tiny Thunder” is an album of Nicholas Chase’s music that presents two quietly entrancing piano works—the meditative solo “Zuòwàng,” and the more virtuosic piano-four-hands piece “Tiny Thunder” — performed by pianist Bryan Pezzone. Both works,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 10, 2023

  • Twilight Of The Dreamboats
    Twilight Of The Dreamboats

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    Chas Smith is a musician who has created his own unique musical world—complete with its own instruments and language—which has often been compared to that of Harry Partch and Harry Bertoia. Smith’s, however, is a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 2015