New Focus Recordings
262 products
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We Live the Opposite Daring / Ekmeles
$18.99
Following up on a debut release with New Focus that was hailed as "spectacular" by The Whole Note and "remarkable" by textura, Ekmeles vocal ensemble, led by director Jeffrey Gavett, brings their crystalline performance style...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 16, 2024
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Hersch: Poppaea / Ah Young Hong, Ensemble Solovoices, Ensemble Phoenix Basel
$21.99
Composer Michael Hersch's epic setting of Poppaea turns the classic tale of Nero inside out, examining it from multiple angles and unearthing the powerful lessons it holds for contemporary society. Hersch, along with vocalists Ah...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 16, 2024
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Netzer: Dot : Line : Sigh / ~Nois, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente
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Composer Osnat Netzer releases her debut recording, featuring performances by Ensemble Dal Niente in full ensemble and chamber settings, saxophonist Geoffrey Landman, Mivos Quartet, flutist Eric Lamb, violist Michael Hall, pianist Marianne Parker, and the...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 16, 2024
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Cold Stability / Christopher Whyte
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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
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Moe: Strenuous Pleasures / Da Capo Chamber Players, Horszowski Trio, counter)induction
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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
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David Shapiro: Sumptuous Planet / The Crossing
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Composer David Shapiro and The Crossing release Sumptuous Planet: A Secular Mass, a work that extols a science based stance on the universe and the nature of existence while using a musical form that is...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 17, 2023
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Nathan: Some Favored Nook
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Composer Eric Nathan's Some Favored Nook is so much more than a vocal setting of Emily Dickinson texts; as ambitious an undertaking as that can be. Weaving Dickinson's poetry into a libretto that is framed...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 15, 2023
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Aylward: Oblivion
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John Aylward's chamber opera Oblivion tackles questions of memory; self-knowledge; and meaning through its rich; colorful score for four voices; viola; cello; double bass; electric guitar; and electronics. Inspired by the writings of Dante and...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 22, 2023
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It Floats Away From You - New Music for Voice & Trumpet / Byrne:Kozar:Duo
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Byrne:Kozar:Duo (Corrine Byrne, soprano and Andy Kozar, trumpet) release their debut recording, It Floats Away From You, featuring compositions by Alexandre Lunsqui, Beth Wiemann, Li Qi, Lei Liang, Vid Smooke, Jeffrey Gavett, Christian Carey, and...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 24, 2023
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O'Brien: Algebra of Night / Kendall, 21st Century Consort
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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
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Secret Messages - New Music for Trumpet & Percussion / Nelson, Kolor
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Trumpeter Jon Nelson and percussionist Tom Kolor release Secret Messages, a collection of works for duo by Moshe Shulman, Dave Ballou, Jeffrey Stadelman, Dafnis Prieto, and Emil Harnas. The works represented take advantage of this...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 21, 2023
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Cooley, Evans, Reich & Weiser: 8-Track / Ashley Bathgate
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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
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Liberatore: Catch Somewhere / Weiss, Zohn Collective
$18.99
Composer John Liberatore writes poetic music that often embeds actual poetry into the fabric of its composition. While only one of the four works on "Catch Somewhere" includes sung text, each piece is inspired in...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 02, 2023
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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
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Density 2036 - Parts VI-VIII (2019-2021) / Claire Chase
$26.99
Virtuoso flutist Claire Chase continues her laudable documentation of her multi-year commissioning project, Density 2036, with a 3 CD set of the works from the 2019, 2020, and 2021 iterations. Featuring pathbreaking music for flute,...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 12, 2023
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