New Focus Recordings

  • Young American Inventions
    Young American Inventions

    $18.99

    Steven Ricks‘ new release, “Young American Inventions”, begins with an automated vocal greeting, speaking, “Hello, pay close attention, everything is ready, so let’s begin.” This quirky opening invites us into his conflicted relationship with technological...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 09, 2015

  • Scott Miller: Tipping Point
    Scott Miller: Tipping Point

    $18.99

    Scott Miller's Tipping Point chronicles a long collaborative relationship between him and Minneapolis based new music ensemble, Zeitgeist. The members of Zeitgeist have regularly acted as a musical proving ground for Miller's explorations, particularly those...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 12, 2015

  • Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 - Carter: Night Fantasies - S
    Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 - Carter: Night Fantasies - S

    $18.99

    New focus recordings expands it's representation of iconic works from the solo piano repertoire with this Eric Huebner recital release of three brilliant, challenging and rewarding works by carter (night fantasies), Stravinsky (trois mouvements de...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 14, 2015

  • David Smooke: Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
    David Smooke: Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

    $18.99

    Called "an impressive, eclectic composer" (Time Out New York) and possessing "some of the most uninhibited brain cells around" (Washington Post), composer David Smooke is a sonic tour guide, leading his listeners ona polystylistic and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 14, 2016

  • Nomi Epstein: sounds
    Nomi Epstein: sounds

    $18.99

    Composer and artistic director of Chicago based experimental ensemble a. pe. Ri. od. #ic, Nomi Epstein releases "sounds," a compilation of her own works for ensemble and solo piano. Epstein's sensitive attention to timbre, phrase...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 26, 2020

  • Scott Wollschleger: Dark Days
    Scott Wollschleger: Dark Days

    $18.99

    Composer Scott Wollschleger releases his second album with New Focus, "Dark Days", chronicling solo piano repertoire written between 2007 and 2020 and featuring his longtime close collaborator, pianist Karl Larson. Aspects of style that are...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 23, 2021

  • Toy
    Toy

    $18.99

    Seventy years after John Cage introduced it to the concert stage, the toy piano has evolved into an instrument that has inspired and fascinated many composers. This album showcases the toy's ability to solo on...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 09, 2019

  • Between Us All: New American Art Songs for Voice and Guitar
    Between Us All: New American Art Songs for Voice and Guitar

    $18.99

    Since their formation in 2009, The Bowers Fader Duo (Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano, and Oren Fader, guitar) has commissioned over 20 new works from American composers representing a wide range of compositional aesthetics. Between Us All,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 03, 2019

  • Lash: Filigree
    Lash: Filigree

    $18.99

    Composer Hannah Lash writes music that is informed in equal measure by historical precedents, such as the Baroque inspired "Suite: Remembered and Imagined," as it is by a modernist examination of instrumental phenomenon, such as...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 12, 2019

  • Ben Melsky / Ensemble Dal Niente
    Ben Melsky / Ensemble Dal Niente

    $18.99

    Harpist Ben Melsky, of Ensemble Dal Niente, a staple on the Chicago new music scene, releases a recording of innovative chamber works with his colleagues by a wonderful collection of composers including Wang Lu, Fred...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 13, 2019

  • Music for English Horn Alone
    Music for English Horn Alone

    $18.99

    Oboist Jacqueline Leclair releases a collection of premiere works for English horn that covers a wide range of stylistic territory and explores the rich, penetrating voice of this beguiling instrument. Featuring music by Meera Gudipati,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 23, 2020

  • Uncanny Affable Machines
    Uncanny Affable Machines

    $18.99

    Composer Eric Moe draws from a wide well of influences, integrating various elements from across the aesthetic spectrum into music that is rhythmically propulsive and preserves an emphasis on melodic development and harmonic context. The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 10, 2018

  • Only Human
    Only Human

    $18.99

    Clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt's "Only Human" is a collection of recordings of works with electronics written for her by colleague composers John Link, Mikel Kuehn, David Taddie, Elizabeth Hoffman, Eric Lyon, and Robert Morris. Featuring music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 16, 2018

  • Reiko Füting: distant song
    Reiko Füting: distant song

    $18.99

    Composer Reiko Futing's music engages with temporality and memory on a multi-dimensional level. By using musical quotation and balancing current instrumental techniques with early music stylistic traits, Futing invites the listener to reflect on a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 04, 2019

  • Aliento
    Aliento

    $18.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 15, 2009