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  • John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places

    $18.99

    Critically acclaimed composer John Luther Adams, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music, offers the first recordings of three of his recent string works: two string quartets, featuring the much-lauded JACK Quartet, and a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2015

  • John Luther Adams: The Light That Fills The World, Etc

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    This CD contains four of Adam's beautifully shimmering, texturally rich compositions for various combinations of one or two pianos and various percussion instruments. Features performances by noted pianist/conductor/new music champion Stephen Drury, who is on...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 01, 2002

  • John Luther Adams: Lines Made By Walking / JACK Quartet

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    A 2021 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance! “Lines Made by Walking” is a uniquely beautiful and magical recording of two string quartets—"Lines Made by Walking” and “untouched”—by influential, critically celebrated composer John...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 18, 2020

  • Garland: Three Dawns and Bush Radio Calling / Squibbs

    $18.99

    Two exuberant, beautiful solo piano pieces: the three-movement Three Dawns, based on poems by Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo, and the nine-movement Bush Radio Calling, written for the music-theater work Just Them Walking, by New Zealand's avant-garde theater...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 28, 2021

  • Garland: Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies No. 1) / Winant

    $18.99

    “Moon Viewing Music” is a quiet, mesmerizing work for large Thai-style gongs and tam-tam, performed by the celebrated Grammy-nominated percussionist William Winant. The composer writes: “For me, moon viewing is a year-round activity…. This cycle...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2018

  • John Luther Adams: Everything That Rises / JACK Quartet

    $18.99

    “Everything That Rises” is a uniquely beautiful and magical hour of music for string quartet, performed by the celebrated, award-winning JACK Quartet. The composer writes about the piece: “Each musician is a soloist, playing throughout....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2018

  • Celesta / Michael Jon Fink

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    “Celesta” is a suite of a dozen quietly transcendent, gem-like celesta solos by noted Los Angeles composer Michael Jon Fink, who also performs them. As each piece unfolds, revealing itself through elegantly fashioned variation, the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 08, 2019

  • Cooper, Bradshaw: Sunrise / Bradshaw
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    “Sunrise” is expansive, incandescent, haunting electro-acoustic music composed and performed by Jacob Cooper and Steven Bradshaw. Created during the 2020–21 pandemic, this kaleidoscopic work grows into a tsunami of sound as it casts an eye...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 15, 2021

  • Chase: Bhajan / Chase, Lorentz
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    Bhajan is a free-wheeling yet meditative four-section work for electric violin and live electronics, which one critic described as “a pas de deux between violin and electronics,” was written for and features noted new-music violinist...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 20, 2017

  • Adams: Arctic Dreams / Synergy Vocals

    $18.99

    Arctic Dreams is critically celebrated composer John Luther Adams's uniquely beautiful and magical seven-movement work for a quartet of voices and a quartet of strings, with layers of digital delay that create 32-part canonic textures....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 28, 2021

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