New Focus Recordings
262 products
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Simple Songs
$18.99
Doug Perkins's "Simple Songs" on New Focus represents his solo debut recording, and is a wonderful document of the dynamism that exists in the constantly growing percussion repertoire. Praised as a "percussion virtuoso" by the...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 30, 2012
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Stone Guitars
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Composer and co-director of Either/Or ensemble, New York based Richard Carrick releases an intimate project of his own multi-layered performances of electric guitar music. + Recorded in a spontaneous but closely cultivated manner, Stone Guitars...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 08, 2014
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Füting: Names Erased
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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
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Messiaen: Harawi
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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
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Roadshow: Music of Carl Schimmel
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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
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Nathan Douds Ensemble
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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
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Douglas Boyce: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
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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
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David Liptak: Dove Songs
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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
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Into the Silence
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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
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Passage
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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
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Mikel Kuehn: Object/Shadow
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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
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Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration
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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
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Shark In You
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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
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Solaris
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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
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David Bird: Iron Orchid
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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
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