New Focus Recordings

  • Cheung: Cycles & Arrows / Various
    Cheung: Cycles & Arrows / Various

    $18.99

    On this release composer Anthony Cheung releases an inventive, beautifully crafted collection of chamber works featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble, Spektral Quartet, and Atlas Ensemble, as well as soloists Winston Choi, Maiya Papach, Claire Chase,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 24, 2018

  • Bach Crossings / Duo Stephanie & Saar
    Bach Crossings / Duo Stephanie & Saar

    $18.99

    Transcriptions of works of J.S. Bach for piano four hands by Gyorgy Kurtag, F.X. Gleichauf, and Max Reger. The title of the album also alludes to the difficult hand crossings that Kurtág requires the performers...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 27, 2012

  • Aesthetic Apparatus: Clarinet Chamber Music of Helmut Lachenmann / Oakes
    Aesthetic Apparatus: Clarinet Chamber Music of Helmut Lachenmann / Oakes

    $18.99

    Clarinetist Gregory Oakes releases a recording of the complete chamber works for clarinet by eminent German composer Helmut Lachenmann, the first recording including all three together. Of particular interest is Oakes’ and his colleagues’ virtuosic...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 05, 2018

  • Cheung: All Roads / Vonsattel, Cuckson, Swierczek, Greenberg, Escher Quartet
    Cheung: All Roads / Vonsattel, Cuckson, Swierczek, Greenberg, Escher Quartet

    $18.99

    Composer and pianist Anthony Cheung writes music that explores the senses, a wide palette of instrumental play and affect, improvisational traditions, reimagined musical artifacts, and multiple layers of textual meaning. Described as “gritty, inventive and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 12, 2022

  • Stephen Barber: Earth - Music for Solo Piano
    Stephen Barber: Earth - Music for Solo Piano

    $18.99

    West Texas native Stephen Barber began playing piano at age three, taking up guitar at age eleven, and composition at age thirteen. As a teenager, he collaborated with Stevie Ray Vaughn and Christopher Cross, and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 19, 2022

  • Biber, Calianno, Guzmán, Leon, Saariaho, Shaw & Wallace: Sumna / Cahn-Lipman
    Biber, Calianno, Guzmán, Leon, Saariaho, Shaw & Wallace: Sumna / Cahn-Lipman

    $21.99

    Sumna is the third solo album of Kivie Cahn-Lipman (founding cellist of the International Contemporary Ensemble, founder of baroque band ACRONYM and HiP Scottish ensemble Makaris, and co-founder of viol consorts LeStrange and Science Ficta)....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 05, 2022

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

    $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

  • Resistance/Resonance / Duo Gelland
    Resistance/Resonance / Duo Gelland

    $18.99

    Based in the Twin Cities, the 113 Composers Collective was formed in 2012 to create immersive opportunities for new means of musical expression, including through their annual Twin Cities New Music Festival. Their association with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 19, 2021

  • Kallembach: Antigone / Willer, Lorelei Ensemble
    Kallembach: Antigone / Willer, Lorelei Ensemble

    $18.99

    Lorelei Ensemble, a critically acclaimed choir of women's voices, releases an EP of James Kellembach's "Antigone." Merging Sophocles original dramatic framework with texts from the Nazi opposition group White Rose in Munich in the 1940s,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 17, 2022

  • Merivale: Tús / Munden-Dixon, Merivale, Desdemona
    Merivale: Tús / Munden-Dixon, Merivale, Desdemona

    $18.99

    Irish composer Finola Merivale releases her debut album, a collection of works spanning ten years of her life, and featuring the Desdemona Ensemble, a group Merivale has collaborated closely with since moving to New York...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 07, 2022

  • Chahian, Mashayekhi, Nourbakhsh, Razaz, Royaee & Tavakol: Nemāno Gaona / Hesabi
    Chahian, Mashayekhi, Nourbakhsh, Razaz, Royaee & Tavakol: Nemāno Gaona / Hesabi

    $18.99

    Iranian violist Kimia Hesabi releases her debut album of music by composers of the Iranian Diaspora, featuring works for solo viola, viola and electronics, viola and voice, and viola and piano. Featuring works by composers...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 17, 2022

  • Flaherty: Mixed Messages / Eclipse Quartet, Fogg, Winges, Lee, Thornblade, Smudges, Parkins, Ray, Flaherty
    Flaherty: Mixed Messages / Eclipse Quartet, Fogg, Winges, Lee, Thornblade, Smudges, Parkins, Ray, Flaherty

    $18.99

    Composer and cellist Tom Flaherty releases "Mixed Messages", a collection of his electro-acoustic works for various instruments. Flaherty's music combines a versatile approach to diverse electronic approaches with a humanist's sensibility towards drawing inspiration from...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2022

  • Ricks: Assemblage Chamber / Woods, Hardink, counter)induction, Nova Chamber Players
    Ricks: Assemblage Chamber / Woods, Hardink, counter)induction, Nova Chamber Players

    $18.99

    Composer Steven Ricks' "Assemblage Chamber" features three chamber works that incorporate elements of the Baroque into Ricks' glitchy, collage oriented textures. An eclectic artist who is active in electronic music and free improvisation in addition...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 27, 2022

  • Bunk, Lamb & Mincek: Way / String Noise
    Bunk, Lamb & Mincek: Way / String Noise

    $18.99

    String Noise (Pauline Kim Harris and Conrad Harris, violins) returns for their second release on New Focus, a follow up to Eric Lyon's "Giga Concerto" which featured them as soloists with the International Contemporary Ensemble....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 29, 2022

  • Farrin, Finck, León & Wiancko: In the Brink / Bergamot Quartet
    Farrin, Finck, León & Wiancko: In the Brink / Bergamot Quartet

    $18.99

    Bergamot Quartet releases its first full length recording with premieres by Suzanne Farrin, Tania León, Paul Wiancko, and Ledah Finck, who is also a violinist in the group. The critically acclaimed quartet merges a refined...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 06, 2022