New Focus Recordings
262 products
-
Ning Yu of Being
$18.99
Pianist Ning Yu (Yarn/Wire, counter)induction) releases "Of Being," a compilation of three pathbreaking works by composers Wang Lu, Misato Mochizuki, and Emily Praetorius. Combining traditional virtuosity with a mastery over contemporary keyboard performance practice and...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 15, 2020
-
Right Now, In A Second / Transient Canvas
$18.99
Boston based Transient Canvas (Amy Advocat, bass clarinet; Matt Sharrock, percussion) releases their newest recording documenting their extensive work commissioning new works for their instrumentation. On "Right now, in a second," the duo presents premiere...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 16, 2020
-
Manoury: Le livre des claviers / Third Coast Percussion
$18.99
Grammy-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion releases their newest recording of two landmark works by acclaimed French composer Philippe Manoury. Manoury's work is aligned with the modernist French tradition as articulated by Pierre boulez; his music...
Format: CD
Release Date: August 04, 2017
-
Gatto: The Making Of Americans
$18.99
Composer Anthony Gatto releases his radio opera setting of Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans," a reworking of his original opera premiered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2008. Fusing aspects of minimalism,...
Format: CD
Release Date: August 07, 2020
-
Hypothetical Islands / Splinter Reeds
$18.99
Ambitious wind quintet Splinter Reeds presents a bracing program of new works written for the group by composers Sky Macklay, Matthew Schlomowitz, Caro Haxo, Eric Wubbels, Theresa Wong, and Yannis Kyriakides. All of the works...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 15, 2019
-
Honstein: An Economy of Means / Perkins
$18.99
In his insightful liner notes for Robert Honstein’s ‘An Economy of Means,’ pianist Timo Andres writes, “isolation can also be an end in itself, sparseness an aesthetic impetus.” From the opening flourishes of the title...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 18, 2018
-
Hanging Gardens / Greenberg, Arnold
$21.99
Pianist Jacob Greenberg connects two post-Wagnerian compositional lineages that are usually seen as divergent on this beautiful curated release -- Debussy's intuitively driven harmonic world and the Second Viennese School's rigorously systematic approach to pitch....
Format: CD
Release Date: July 20, 2018
-
Glover: Lucy / Wilkowske, Zemilauskas, REDSHIFT Ensemble
$18.99
John Glover's opera "Lucy" follows through a fascinating and thought-provoking story of a chimpanzee raised by a human family in Oklahoma in the 1960's as part of research into both human and primate behavior and...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 07, 2017
-
Ghost Light / Akropolis Reed Quintet
$18.99
Detroit based Akropolis Reed Quintet releases "Ghost Light", a collection of works written for them that are in dialogue with various "ghosts" — histories that are manifest in personal, collective, and even organic contexts. Featuring...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 09, 2021
-
Tomas Gueglio: Duermevela / Various Artists
$18.99
Composer Tomás Gueglio releases "Duermevela," a collection of solo and ensemble works that reflect his interest in microtonality, extended technique, and blending musical lineages and styles. Metaphors central to his recent work are private languages,...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 04, 2020
-
Eric Lyon: Giga Concerto / Saunier, String Noise, International Contemporary Ensemble
$18.99
Violin duo String Noise (Pauline Kim Harris and Conrad Harris) team up with composer Eric Lyon, Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier, and the International Contemporary Ensemble for this wide ranging release of Lyon's Giga Concerto and...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 26, 2021
-
Gatto: Wise Blood / Various
$18.99
Composer Anthony Gatto's releases "Wise Blood," his operatic setting of Flannery O'Connor's iconic novel about a crisis of faith, patriotism, and painful transformation. The pace and syntax of southern preaching colors much of Gatto's text...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 24, 2020
-
Brendon Randall-Myers: Dynamics Of Vanishing Bodies / Dither Ensemble
$18.99
Composer/guitarist Brendon Randall-Myers, in collaboration with electric guitar quartet Dither, releases "dynamics of vanishing bodies," a 37-minute piece deploying a full gamut of techniques. Several alternate tunings, retuned during the work, a battery of effects...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 25, 2020
-
Donatoni, Lash, Salonen: Blow / The City of Tomorrow
$18.99
The City of Tomorrow releases Blow, a collection of three works for wind quintet, anchored by the premiere of a multi-movement work written for them by Hannah Lash. Guided by their virtuosity and commitment to...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 25, 2021
-
Ergun: Sonare & Celare / JACK Quartet
$18.99
The JACK Quartet performs two works by Turkish born experimental composer Cenk Ergün on this EP release. Ergun's immersion in the worlds of electronic music and improvisation shape material that is intense in character, whether...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 13, 2020
Latest Deals
Avie Label Sale 2025
Almost 400 titles from AVIE Records, featured below, are on sale now. The label is home to a wonderful array of artists and ensembles, including Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo's Fire, Leon Botstein's The Orchestra Now, and more.
Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, February 25, 2025.
Pentatone Label Sale 2025
Over 400 titles from PENTATONE are on sale now at ArkivMusic, at up to 50% off their regular, everyday prices.
Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, March, 25, 2025.
MDG Label Sale 2025
More than 300 titles from Germany's wide-ranging MDG label are on sale now.
Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
ARC Music Label Sale - Winter 2025
Explore folk and classical music from around the globe from the top world music labels — ARC Music, Naxos World, and bendigedig — now at discount prices.
Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, March 25, 2025.