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  • Mulvey: Great Women - Irish History in Voice & Electronics / Hilliard
    Mulvey: Great Women - Irish History in Voice & Electronics / Hilliard

    $9.99

    Great Women was commissioned by the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival to mark its 50th anniversary in 2020 with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland, An Comhairle Ealaíon, which also gave financial support....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 11, 2021

  • Mountains / McCabe
    Mountains / McCabe

    $19.99

    John McCabe (1939-2015) was renowned as both a pianist (a Haydn specialist and supporter of many contemporary composers) and as a composer of very fine music in several genres. In 1985 he visited EMI Studios...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 18, 2019

  • Piccoloworks / Schwaabe, Schulze
    Piccoloworks / Schwaabe, Schulze

    $19.99

    This fabulous new album, co-produced with Bavarian Radio, presents top German piccolo virtuoso Natalie Schwaabe in an international program of recent works for ‘the screaming twig’ as the instrument is sometimes known in orchestral circles....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 17, 2017

  • Persian Autumn / Mary Dullea
    Persian Autumn / Mary Dullea

    $19.99

    Both enjoying successful and acclaimed international reputations, the two Iranian composers here represent two generations of musicians trained in the West. Hormoz Farhat, born in 1928, was the first Iranian to study music in the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2020

  • Homage: Chamber Music by Philip Grange / Mitchell, Gemini
    Homage: Chamber Music by Philip Grange / Mitchell, Gemini

    $19.99

    Gemini is one of the leading British chamber ensembles and has supported many contemporary composers over the years. Their association with Philip Grange goes back to the mid 1990s. Philip Grange’s earliest published compositions date...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 20, 2019

  • Hughes: Time, Space & Change / Smith, New Music Players, Orchestra of Sound & Light
    Hughes: Time, Space & Change / Smith, New Music Players, Orchestra of Sound & Light

    $19.99

    Ed Hughes is a master of composition to the highest degree; his works have been premiered and performed around the world and include operas, music for silent films, chamber, orchestral and piano works – and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 13, 2020

  • Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Offerto / Skærved
    Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Offerto / Skærved

    $19.99

    Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b.1941) is widely regarded as Iceland’s pre-eminent composer, as well as a highly accomplished cellist. He studied with Enrico Mainardi and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and was cellist with many leading chamber ensembles...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 14, 2021

  • Four / London Myriad
    Four / London Myriad

    $19.99

    Tuneful, exciting, peaceful, humorous, fascinating- music for woodwind ensemble can be all of these and this new album presents serious and lighter pieces of impressionist and post-Romantic inclination from the 20th century. It includes the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 18, 2019

  • Ghost Songs
    Ghost Songs

    $20.99

    "I see sketches of islands / half revealed / like deities / in a haze." From Ní Chinnéide’s opening words, Ghost Songs takes the listener through the earthly and the otherworldly, the liminal and the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 08, 2021

  • Garcia: String Quartets 1-3 / Amernet String Quartet
    Garcia: String Quartets 1-3 / Amernet String Quartet

    $19.99

    The music of the Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia inhabits a sonic universe of its very own, one where the musical landscape is constructed in order to evoke a thorough suspension of time. The three...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 12, 2021

  • Fortmann: Gimme Twelve / Various
    Fortmann: Gimme Twelve / Various

    $19.99

    Thomas Fortmann is a Swiss composer who in the 1970s had a very successful career as a writer of rock music – and also as an international golfing star! Over one hundred songs were recorded...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 08, 2020

  • Embrace of Fire: Music for Organ by Naji hakim / Leach
    Embrace of Fire: Music for Organ by Naji hakim / Leach

    $19.99

    French-Lebanese composer Naji Hakim is renowned as one of Europe’s most gifted composers and has written a good deal of music for organ. This album includes one of his most celebrated works ‘The Embrace of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 21, 2018

  • Cowie: Three Quartets & A Solo / Kreutzer Quartet
    Cowie: Three Quartets & A Solo / Kreutzer Quartet

    $19.99

    Edward Cowie is one of the most individual and notable voices in contemporary music – which he sees as both conscious and unconscious sensitivity to sound. Highly inspired by Nature and our world, he works...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 17, 2020

  • Ferneyhough: Complete Piano Music (1965-2018) / Pace, Smith
    Ferneyhough: Complete Piano Music (1965-2018) / Pace, Smith

    $20.99

    Brian Ferneyhough is well established as one of the leading figures in the avant-garde ‘new complexity’ school. His works, fiercely complex and requiring virtuoso performers, are nevertheless among the most successful in the Métier new...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 09, 2021

  • Athanasiadis: Book of Dreams / Shonorities
    Athanasiadis: Book of Dreams / Shonorities

    $19.99

    As in the previous Shonorities album, the Japanese aesthetic permeates all and creates a deep impression, but here, it is sometimes much more subtle - an impression of philosophy rather than overt musical style.The music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 15, 2019