New Focus Recordings Year-End Sales Titles

  • Epstein: Nebraska Impromptu / Popper-Keizer, Pearson, Moore, Berger, Diaz, Berman, Brady, McDonald
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    Epstein: Nebraska Impromptu / Popper-Keizer, Pearson, Moore, Berger, Diaz, Berman, Brady, McDonald

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Boston based composer Marti Epstein releases this collection of her chamber music including clarinet, featuring Rane Moore and the Winsor Music ensemble. Epstein's music is shaped in equal measure by modern icons Webern, Feldman, and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 22, 2022

  • Kirsten, Ko, Lash, Young: Unsnared Drum / Compitello
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    Kirsten, Ko, Lash, Young: Unsnared Drum / Compitello

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Michael Compitello's "Unsnared Drum" reframes how people think about, perform, and practice the snare drum, freeing the drum from its historical and idiomatic chains. It asks whether the snare drum can be bold, coy, suave,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 20, 2021

  • Urban Inventory
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    Urban Inventory

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Composer Wang Lu's debut full length recording opens with a sonic portrait of a late afternoon in the life of a Chinese city park, with pre-recorded sounds of conversations layered on top of ephemeral gestures...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 16, 2018

  • Max Johnson: When the Streets Were Quiet
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    Max Johnson: When the Streets Were Quiet

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    Composer, bassist, bandleader, and stylistic chameleon Max Johnson releases this collection of his recent through-composed chamber music, displaying his impressive versatility across many contexts. Unlike some musicians who wear multiple aesthetic caps, Johnson does not...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 06, 2023

  • Liang: Hearing Landscapes/Hearing Icescapes / Hinrichs, Aguila, Díaz de Cossío
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    Liang: Hearing Landscapes/Hearing Icescapes / Hinrichs, Aguila, Díaz de Cossío

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Acclaimed composer Lei Liang releases "Hearing Landscapes/Hearing Icescapes", a multidisciplinary diptych that marries diverse areas of inquiry into Chinese landscape painting and folk song, oceanography, software development, earth science, and underwater acoustics. The result are...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 10, 2023

  • Music from the Association for the Promotion of New Music (APNM), Vol. 3
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    Music from the Association for the Promotion of New Music (APNM), Vol. 3

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    APNM (Association for the Promotion of New Music) releases Vol. 3 of their ongoing series documenting recordings of music by their member composers. Featuring works by Erik Lundborg, Ionel Petroi, Hiroya Miura, Louis Goldford, Michael...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 17, 2023

  • Werntz: Someone Who Loves You Throws Me at You
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    Werntz: Someone Who Loves You Throws Me at You

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    Boston based microtonal specialist Julia Werntz releases "Someone Who Loves You Throws Me At You," a collection of chamber works with and without voice that demonstrate her highly personal style, often using microtones as her...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 26, 2023

  • Cooley, Evans, Reich & Weiser: 8-Track / Ashley Bathgate
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    Cooley, Evans, Reich & Weiser: 8-Track / Ashley Bathgate

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Cellist Ashley Bathgate releases her third solo album featuring her performance of Steve Reich’s Cello Counterpoint alongside three new works that take advantage of the versatile format of soloist with layered tracks. Composers Emily Cooley, Alex Weiser,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 07, 2023

  • O'Brien: Algebra of Night / Kendall, 21st Century Consort
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    O'Brien: Algebra of Night / Kendall, 21st Century Consort

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Indiana-based composer Eugene O'Brien and the 21st Century Consort (contemporary ensemble led by Christopher Kendall in residence at the Smithsonian Museum) release Algebra of Night, featuring two ensemble works that highlight O'Brien's rich harmonic palette...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 21, 2023

  • Moe: Strenuous Pleasures / Da Capo Chamber Players, Horszowski Trio, counter)induction
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    Moe: Strenuous Pleasures / Da Capo Chamber Players, Horszowski Trio, counter)induction

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Pittsburgh based composer Eric Moe releases Strenuous Pleasures, a collection of chamber music written in the decade 2010-2020. Featuring performances by counter)induction, Da Capo Chamber Players, Horszowski Trio, cellist David Russell, and saxophonist Elliott Riley,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 03, 2023

  • Cold Stability / Christopher Whyte
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    Cold Stability / Christopher Whyte

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Percussionist Christopher Whyte releases Cold Stability, a collection of works for different percussion instruments that explores paths to quietude through sound. Featuring works by Toshio Hosokawa, Sarah Hennies, Lou Harrison, and Whyte himself, the album...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 10, 2023

  • Playlist
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    Playlist

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Violin and viola duo andPlay (Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola) release their debut recording featuring music by Ashkan Behzadi, Clara Iannotta, and David Bird. The duo's fluency with contemporary performance techniques and aesthetics...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 27, 2019

  • come closer
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    come closer

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Bassoonist Mike Harley releases an album of premieres demonstrating the range of aesthetics present in the growing repertoire for the instrument. Including works by Carl Schimmel, John Fitz Rogers, Fang Man, and Caleb Burhans, the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 18, 2019

  • Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration
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    Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Described as “evocative” and “kaleidoscopic” (NY Times), composer Scott Wollschleger’s music is at times deconstructive, disembodied, and dystopic, but always infused with awe and wonder. Wollschleger probes timbre, instrumental relationships, and aesthetic implications to find...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2017

  • Mikel Kuehn: Object/Shadow
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    Mikel Kuehn: Object/Shadow

    $8.99 Regular price $18.99

    Composer Mikel Kuehn, a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, carries the mantle of American high modernism forward with this debut full length release of his compositions. Kuehn's work draws influence from Babbitt, Carter, and Wolpe among others,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2016