Tag Archives: New Focus Recordings

There's a lot of pain and grief here, but it has inspired a suite of eclectic and eccentric chamber music that's almost operatic.

It's as if the violin can't stop swatting at mosquitos while the cello sings a sad, halting, unmoored kind of song.

Evocative electroacoustic music from composer-percussionist José Martínez engages with the composer's Latin heritage, and with the absurd, while pushing creative boundaries.

Pianist Donald Pirone continues his long engagement with the music of Karol Rathaus on a new EP featuring the composer's fourth Piano Sonata.

Percussion music can sound dry and detached. Most of the music on Portland Percussion Group's new album is anything but.

There's always more to discover in the annals of 20th-century American music. Violist Jonathan Bagg makes valuable contributions to our awareness of some worthy viola repertoire – and of some neglected American composers.

A job interview in music form? Skillful interplay among the instruments and the contrasting moods of the responses show once again a sensibility deeply rooted in the human.

Ueno's percussion music reminds us that as long as there's a musician and a listener, there is real physical interplay between the the sound and the auditor's biology.

This bold new collection showcases music from a relative newcomer side-by-side with recent compositions by long-established contemporary composers.

Andy Kozar plays all the trumpet parts on a selection of contemporary music scored for as many as 36 trumpets.