Modern
913 products
-
-
-
Alan Hovhaness: Complete Works for Solo Organ
$20.99CDToccata
Jul 04, 2025TOCC0763 -
-
-
Lorena Mac with Flaubinette Trio
$19.99CDDUX
Jan 30, 2026DUX2120 -
Boulez: Piano Works
$19.99CDNaxos
Sep 26, 20258574398 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
Lotusland
$16.99CDNavona
Nov 21, 2025NV6779
Brahms: Complete Chamber Music
ELLA WISHES YOU A SWINGING CHRISTMAS
No Illusions
GREATEST HITS
SUPERFLY
Boplicity
Live At JazzFest Berlin
TERRY RILEY - THE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS
In Concert
In Concert
In Concert
Soul Sister
PEANUTS PORTRAITS
trioTrio meets Sheila Jordan
Montmartre 73
Destiny Is Yours
Song for Biko
Alan Hovhaness: Complete Works for Solo Organ
African American Voices II - Bonds, Kay & Perkinson / Gray, RSNO
Kellen Gray has reunited with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a second instalment of African American Voices. Though representing differing schools of thought regarding African American classical music, the composers here are united by their roots in black history, culture and its rich musical heritage. Drawing upon jazz and spirituals – ‘I Want Jesus to Walk with Me’ serving as the source material – Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations engages with African American history, namely the Montgomery bus boycott and the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. In this work, re-discovered in 2017, Bonds tackles the themes of strength, resistance, determination and faith. Bonds’ contemporary, the prolific composer Ulysses Kay cultivated a neoclassical voice, as his Concerto for Orchestra exemplifies, very much in line with William Grant Still and his teacher Paul Hindemith. A versatile musician, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson comes a generation later. In his Worship: A Concert Overture, we can hear a blend of Baroque counterpoint, elements of the blues, spirituals and black folk music.
REVIEW:
Margaret Bond (1913–1972) wrote her 1964 Montgomery Variations as a seven-movement theme-and-variations on the spiritual “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me.” Bond’s impassioned cri de coeur bypasses the constraints of academic cd’s and don’ts as it chronicles in boldly theatrical music the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement, from the Montgomery bus boycott through the tragic 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. Bond dedicated the piece to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., though sadly never heard it performed during her brief lifetime.
Ulysses Kay (1917–1995) reflects in his 1948 Concerto for Orchestra the influence of several of his mentors – including Paul Hindemith – as a thoroughly tonal work conceived in mid-20th century, in a moment in which the music of the followers of the Second Viennese School reigned supreme in the classical music worlds of both Europe and America. Kay’s classically structured, richly orchestrated, harmonically dense, and contrapuntally complex composition remains at its core a consonantly melodic, post-Romantic work.
In his 2001 Worship: A Concert Overture Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932–2004) successfully amalgamates sacred and secular music, incorporating blues in his nobly elegant treatment of Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow.
-- All About The Arts (Rafael de Acha)
Lorena Mac with Flaubinette Trio
Richard Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4
Oiseaux de passage
Boulez: Piano Works
Davies, Grime & Mendelssohn: Scotland / Crawford-Phillips, Västerås Sinfonietta
Conductor Simon Crawford-Phillips leads the Västerås Sinfonietta on their new concept album; 'Scotland'. The principal work is Mendelssohn's famous 3rd Symphony; the 'Scottish'; coupled with two interesting contemporary works with strong bonds to Scotland: Helen Grime's "Elegiac Inflections"; and Peter Maxwell Davies' 'Strathclyde Concerto No. 10'.
Berio: Intégrale des quatuors à cordes
Gnar Gnar Rad - Jazz Thing Next Generation, Vol. 102
Oscar Pettiford. The Clash Art Blakey. A Tribe Called Quest. Charles Mingus (with Eric Dolphy). Only People Do The Killing. Cannonball Adderley. Primus. The Ornette Coleman Quartet. When Moritz Koser, bassist and composer from Frankfurt/Main, talks about points of reference and important influences, it goes all the way through music history. Gnar Gnar Rad, the quartet from Frankfurt, is his band. "Gnar Gnar Rad" is the album debut: a strong statement with which he effortlessly bridges the gap between jazz history and current trends.
Serenade with a Dandelion: Armenian Chamber Music, Old & New
Violinist Movses Pogossian continues his admirable advocacy for the work of Armenian composers with this extensive 4 disc collection of new works, a follow up to his Modulation Necklace release in 2020 (FCR244). Divided into four volumes that focus on instrumental chamber music, art song, and solo piano music, Serenade with a Dandelion is an invaluable resource to explore 20th and 21st century Armenian repertoire, performed with the utmost sensitivity and commitment by Pogossian and his colleagues.
Un - Canaja Brass Quintet
Kinetic Valves
