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Composer Christopher Roberts’s four serene yet deeply emotive pieces for solo qin (a Chinese zither-like instrument) are quiet, sparce, slightly eerie, almost Feldmanesque. Performed by the composer, who learned the qin while living and teaching...

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Release Date: October 01, 2009

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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...

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Release Date: January 01, 2009

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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...

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Release Date: March 01, 2008

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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...

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Release Date: January 01, 2015

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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...

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Release Date: October 01, 2015

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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...

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Release Date: September 01, 2014

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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...

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Release Date: February 08, 2019

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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...

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Release Date: October 25, 2019

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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...

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Release Date: October 25, 2019

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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...

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Release Date: May 17, 2024

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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...

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Release Date: May 17, 2024

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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...

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Release Date: September 15, 2023

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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.”...

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Release Date: February 10, 2023

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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,...

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Release Date: February 10, 2023

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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,...

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Release Date: February 10, 2023