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John Luther Adams: In the White Silence
The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Tim Weiss, conductor *** Featured in The Encounter - Special Broadcast May 15-22, 2020 *** Since 1978, Alaska has been John Luther Adams's (b 1953) home and a major inspirational source for most of his compositions. Almost all of his compositions evoke natural phenomena, in...
John Luther Adams: Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing
The Apollo Chamber Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation.... —T. S. Eliot Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing is a work of musical contemplation, an attempt to consecrate...
John Luther Adams: Earth and the Great Weather
A Sonic Geography of the Arctic Amy Knoles, percussion; Robert Black, doublebass and percussion; Robin Lorentz, violin and percussion; Michael Finckel, cello and conductor; Ron Lawrence, viola; James Nageak, Doreen Simmonds, Inupiat Eskimo performers; Lincoln Tritt, Adeline Peter Raboff, Gwich'in indian performers; Dave Hunsaker, Latin voice; John Luther Adams, conductor...
John Luther Adams: For Lou Harrison
The Callithumpian Consort, Stephen Drury, conductor "Lou Harrison was a generous friend and wise mentor to me for almost thirty years. Lou’s faith and support of my music was a decisive influence in my life. I learned more of practical value from my time with Lou than from any of...
Andrew Byrne: White Bone Country
Stephen Gosling, piano; David Shively, percussion Andrew Byrne's (b 1966) tripartite CD has a mobile-like character, working entirely with a fabric of piano and metal percussion in changing manners and images, all of them remote from the duo relationship of conventional chamber music. The central work, Tracks, is also the...
In partnership with Yucca Alta Records, New World is excited to offer "Voiceless Mass" in a special double LP format. Three playable sides presented in black vinyl with etched artwork by Raven Chacon (as pictured) on Side 4. Listening is the foundation of Raven Chacon’s (b. 1977) wide-ranging artistic...
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
Todd Reynolds, violin, with electronic processing; Members of the Yale Philharmonia, Julian Pellicano, conductor; The Berkeley Gamelan, Daniel Schmidt, director; Ingram Marshall, gambuh (Balinese flute), Serge synthesizer, live electronic processing The pieces on this recording span almost three decades and represent the principal threads that have run through Ingram Marshall's...
Charlemagne Palestine: Schlingen-Blängen
Charlemagne Palestine, organ Schlingen Blängen is an invaluable addition to the slender but precious discography of Charlemagne Palestine, one of the legendary figures of the amazingly fertile New York and West Coast experimental music/art scene of the sixties and seventies. He is considered to be a seminal figure of early...
Barbara Kolb: Millefoglie and Other Works
Music Today, Gerard Schwarz; Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt; Jonathan Haas, vibraphone; Taco Kooistra, cello; Edmund Niemann, piano; Ray Reinhardt, narrator; Harrie Starreveld, flute Barbara Kolb's musical aesthetic is most often concerned with the building of vertical structures by juxtaposing discrete and recognizable rhythmic or melodic units. These units then...
I’ve created this list in the midst of slogging through the annual year-end process of proclaiming my favorite releases of the previous 12 months, which only reinforces how arbitrary and fleeting these things are. There are countless gems in the New World catalog, and on another day, I might have...