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Barney Childs: Heaven to Clear When Day Did Close
David Ward-Steinman, piano; Nancy Turetzky, flute, piccolo; Bert Turetzky, contrabass; Phillip Rehfeldt, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon; Scott Vance, clarinet; Ron George, percussion, bass drum; Chris Corman, Blake Van Vliet, bass drum Barney Childs (1926-2000) is perhaps best known for his innovative scores that weave indeterminacy and improvisation with traditional musical...
New Americana: String Quartets for the 21st Century
Momenta Quartet: Emilie-Anne Gendron, Alex Shiozaki, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello The present recording celebrates the staggering variety of the American string quartet in the 21st century. All but one of the five works was given its first performance by the Momenta Quartet, a group which since its...
Stuart Saunders Smith: Palm Sunday
Kyle Adam Blair, piano An insatiable listener, learner, and reader, Stuart Saunders Smith (b 1948) has taken into his mind and spirit myriad styles of musical performance spanning centuries, methods of compositional practice of all sorts, and innumerable close personal relationships with artists of all disciplines. He has absorbed this...
Michael Pisaro-Liu: Radiolarians
Though richly varied, Michael Pisaro-Liu’s (b.1961) works are linked through their philosophical and ethical concern for the interaction between music and its sounding environment, their openness to the creative contributions of performers, and their capacity for making felt our belonging to and participation in a world of continuous and often...
Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life
Karen Phillips, viola; Anahid Ajemian, Matthew Raimondi, violin; Seymour Barab; cello; David Tudor, Paul Jacobs, Yuji Takahashi, pianos; Eberhard Blum, Paula Robison, flute; Arthur Bloom, clarinet; Arnold Fromme, trombone; Jan Williams, Richard Fitz, Raymond DesRoches, percussion; Morton Feldman, piano, conductor The music on this recording (reissued from CRI CD 620)...
Peter Garland: The Birthday Party
Aki Takahashi, piano On first hearing, the piano music of Peter Garland (b 1952) creates a feeling of dislocation, then astonishment: It is so very different from the contemporary concert music we are familiar with. The composer's intent, his emotional directness is immediate－despite the unusual sound world and different sense...
Music for Merce, Vol. 7 (digital only)
The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. Particularly notable is his association with John Cage, who served as the founding musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until Cage’s death in 1992. Spanning six decades...
Music for Merce, Vol. 6 (digital only)
The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. Particularly notable is his association with John Cage, who served as the founding musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until Cage’s death in 1992. Spanning six decades...
Music for Merce, Vol. 4 (digital only)
The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. Particularly notable is his association with John Cage, who served as the founding musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until Cage’s death in 1992. Spanning six decades...
Music for Merce, Vol. 5 (digital only)
The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. Particularly notable is his association with John Cage, who served as the founding musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until Cage’s death in 1992. Spanning six decades...