New Focus Recordings

  • Füting: Names Erased
    Füting: Names Erased

    $18.99

    Reiko Füting’s features chamber works performed by members of NYC’s most celebrated contemporary ensembles, including the Int’l Contemporary Ensemble, Either/Or Ensemble, and the Mivos String Quartet. This collection of works illustrates Füting’s interest in the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 11, 2015

  • Messiaen: Harawi
    Messiaen: Harawi

    $18.99

    Longtime collaborators Tony Arnold and Jacob Greenberg release a poignant recording of Olivier Messiaen's evocative song cycle Harawi: Song of Love and Death. Inspired by songs from the Quechua culture of the Andean region of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 25, 2013

  • Roadshow: Music of Carl Schimmel
    Roadshow: Music of Carl Schimmel

    $18.99

    Carl Schimmel's music possesses a Haydesque structural sensibility augmented with a playful sense of humor. His wonderful ability to communicate semantic meaning from moment to moment gives his scores an engaging narrative, and his penchant...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 10, 2017

  • Nathan Douds Ensemble
    Nathan Douds Ensemble

    $18.99

    Formed in 2010 by Nathan Douds, the ensemble features six musicians with diverse musical backgrounds and career paths, a prime factor that allows this group to remain as flexible as it is. These musicians have...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 30, 2012

  • Douglas Boyce: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
    Douglas Boyce: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities

    $18.99

    Composer Douglas Boyce, composer in residence of acclaimed new music ensemble counter)induction, releases his debut portraig album, featuring three of his kinetic chamber works in riveting performances by counter)induction, Aeolus Quartet, and Trio Cavatina. Boyce's...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 01, 2018

  • David Liptak: Dove Songs
    David Liptak: Dove Songs

    $18.99

    Composer David Liptak releases a collection of chamber works, featuring the cycle,"Dove Songs," written for soprano Tony Arnold with pianist Alison D'Amato. Liptak, longtime composition professor at the Eastman School of Music, writes music that...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 15, 2019

  • Into the Silence
    Into the Silence

    $18.99

    Musical ideas that are passed down through tutelage and mentorship also owe a debt to the shared geological proximity that is the fruit of a community. This elegant recording by the duo of violinist Nicholas...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 25, 2017

  • Passage
    Passage

    $18.99

    Longleash (Pala Garcia, violin; John Popham, cello; Renate Rohlfing, piano) is a group with a traditional instrumentation and a progressive identity. Inspired by music with unusual sonic beauty, an inventive streak and a truthful cultural...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 22, 2017

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

    $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

  • Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration
    Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration

    $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

  • Shark In You
    Shark In You

    $18.99

    Du Yun, critically acclaimed as a composer of concert music, releases her first album as her pop diva alter-ego, duYun. Recorded and produced in New York, Shanghai, and Montreal, Shark in You features duYun's broad...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 25, 2011

  • Solaris
    Solaris

    $18.99

    Van Stiefel's Solaris is an anti-electric guitar electric guitar album, exploring the fragility and beautiful vulnerability of music for amplified guitar plucked by bare flesh and nail in the manner of classical guitar playing.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 01, 2011

  • David Bird: Iron Orchid
    David Bird: Iron Orchid

    $18.99

    What comes through with clarion intensity in Iron Orchid, a collaboration between composer & producer David Bird and pianist Ning Yu, is material. The through line is metal, but a transmogrified metal, embodied in timbres...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 03, 2021

  • Traceur: American Music for Clarinet & Piano
    Traceur: American Music for Clarinet & Piano

    $18.99

    This release is a survey of music by American composers, and is a mixture of premieres and first recordings of new transcriptions for the clarinet. Featuring works from composers Robert Beaser, Joseph Schwantner, Lukas Foss,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2016

  • The Debussy Effect
    The Debussy Effect

    $21.99

    On her latest release, Kathleen Supove explores our collective fascination with Debussy's music. As she observes in her notes, Debussy's music "seems to suggest a state of mind, too, envisioned in a very crystalline and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 14, 2016