Pianist and Composer Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) performed in nearly eighty countries. Her piano compositions are based upon musical cultures from the many places she visited. Sarah Masterson has made a specialty of performing Schuyler's works.

This is an album featuring seven works for string orchestra by Philadelphia-Area composers; all are new commissions. These would be major composers, wherever they were based. This is absolutely first-rate new music for string orchestra.

Greek violinist and composer Dinos Constantinides was based at LSU in the U.S. for many years, prior to his death in 2021. He began as a violinist, but became a note composer many years ago. This album features some of his violin compositions performed on his own instrument.

Yuting Liu, flute, and Qiaochu LI, piano beautifully perform three major sonatas for flute and piano: Yuko Uebayashi: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Lowell Lieberman: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 23, and Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata in D Major, Op. 94.

PROGRAM SYNOPSIS: Hesterian Ballet-dramatic Operetta Mother Nature dislikes disruptive delays and lack of organic empathy. Saturn is and karmic imprint within our DNA as the result of individually and collectively evolved experiences. It represents challenges carried from past incarnations from which we learn and master destiny. Thus, Saturn Return is a period and time of reckoning where we take responsibility for entire life cycles. It is a period of great transformation and inhanced awareness of who we are and our inherent goals.

This is an album of superb new works for woodwinds by contemporary American composer Matthew Quayle.

This album features four wonderful new works for Cello and Chamber Winds, superbly performed by Paul York, cello, with The University of Louisville Wind Ensemble, conducted by Frederick Speck.

This album features four first-rate new compositions for Cello and Piano. They are wonderfully played by Simona Barbu, cello, and Nariaki Sugiura, piano.

This album features major works by Mozart, Clementi, and Haydn, arranged for and played by virtuoso accordionist William Popp.

Mikhail Volchok was born in 1950 into a family of pianists at the bitter end of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union. He attended the Moscow Conservatory. Moving to the U.S. many years ago, he concertized as a pianist. He later began composing as well. This album features some of his piano and chamber works.

This is another in the series of recordings of the works of contemporary American composer David Loeb. Like many of his compositions, the works here include both the usual instruments, as well as, in this case, shinobue and Khaen.

This is an album of first-rate contemporary American works for violin piano, with superb performances by Pia Liptak, violin, and Yi-Wen Chang, piano. Pia Liptak: Fantasy; Charles Ives: Second Sonata for Violin and Piano; Pia Liptak: Four Haiku; David Liptak: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Baljinder Sekhon: Three Little Lights

This project began in the mind of tenor Richard Novak as a way to bring Father Mychal Judge's life - and the lessons it offers about the power of love, hope, faith, tolerance, courage, and joy - to the world in the form of a song cycle. __Kevin Salfen

Sounds of COVID-19 is a musical translation of the genetic code of COVID-19, the virus of the 2020 global pandemic. Every segment of the virus is assigned musical pitches. In this way, the sounds reflect the sequence of the virus. When listening from beginning to end, the listener hears nearly the entire genome of COVID-19.

This is a wonderful program of Latin American piano works, performed by Israeli pianist Gila Goldstein.

Composer Stephen Dankner was the composer in residence with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra from 2004-2007. Dankner has composed over 150 major works in all genres except opera.

This album features five superb contemporary works for flute, viola, and piano, all in beautiful performances.

This is a great modern jazz album, with all original compositions by Jorge Variego

Composer William Ortiz was born in Puerto Rico, but raised in the U.S. Nonetheless, his Latino identification plays a major role in his music, which can readily be heard in this superb album of his works.

This is a collection of great choral works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods that deserve to be heard far more often.

Violinist Rolf Schulte presents a program of great American violin works composed between 1947 and 2000. He is joined in two of them by pianist Ursula Oppens.

This album features the last three piano sonatas by Beethoven. pianist Dainius Vaicekonis has an active performance career as soloist, collaborative artist, and piano professor in the US and Europe.

This is a great performance of the Triakontameron suite by Leopold Godowsky. This is a seldom-heard work that deserves a much larger footprint in the repertoire.

Korusa (Sujung Cho and Jacob Clark, piano) perform the Complete Piano Duets by Beethoven. This is great Beethoven literature that is heard far too infrequently, here presented in superb performances.

This repertoire spans almost eighty years of classical composers' excursions into blues, folk, hip-hop, jazz, musical theater, samba, tango, techno and other genres. Each piece goes beyond mere stylistic imitation, cultivating an authentic expressivity within a transcribed musical language rooted in the Americas. ___Alexander Crosett