Monthly Archives: December 2018
Conan – Existential Void Guardian
Release date: September 14, 2018 Label: Napalm Records Conan has been blowing up recently. I don’t want to hype Existential Void Guardian too much but it snuck into my top metal albums of 2018. Existential Void Guardian is doom at it’s finest. The album starts with Prosper the Path and the pummeling never lets up. Eye to Eye to Eye threatens to crush […]
Transient Canvas–Wired
Mostly slow, quiet and abstract works for marimba and bass clarinet. Play!
Embracing the Wind
Modern works for flute, harp and strings. Play!
Philippe Gaubert–Ballade
Early 1900’s works, clearly Impressionistic, gracious, lovely flute pieces. Play!
Wunderbach–J.S. Bach
Bach works for guitar or transcribed. Nice!
Launch
Unusual combination of sax and harp, beautiful modern/contemporary pieces. Play!
Songs & Dances
American works for ensemble with strings, flute or oboe. Play!
Saariaho X Koh
Finnish composer uses harmonics, microtones–abstract, wandering. Play most!
Elliott Sharp– Dispersion
Works both composed but with improvisation by musicians, very abstract. Each performance is different.
Dvorak, Janacek, Martinu–String Works
Beautiful Slavic works for string orchestra. Dvorak’s well known. Play!
Images of Brazil
Modern pieces for violin and piano by Brazilian composers, varied. Play!
Celebrating Women Composers
Works by living women composers (Zwilich, Higdon, Auerbach), all contemporary. Play!
Toccata
From Baroque to contemporary, interesting, varied, solo harp pieces. Play!
Anna Thorvaldsdottir–Aequa
With sounds, droning, dark, quiet, meandering pieces. Play!
Gathering Shatters
Performing music of diverse cultures, all memorized (duo Mem (memorized) di( diverse). Play all!
Spectra
A mix of instrumental, and voice, all contemporary. Nancy Tucker’s pieces great!
Garlands for Steven Stucky
In Memorium for Steven Stucky, short solo piano pieces by many composers, varied.
Simon Andrews–and that moment when the bird sings
Gracious, also a bit dark works for piano, strings, horn, some voice.
Legend and Light–New Works for Large Ensemble
Short orchestral works, varied, contemporary. Play!
Paul Hindemith–4 Sonatas for Viola Solo
Abstract, somewhat intense viola solos. Play!
Variations
Mostly contemporary works for marimba, some transcriptions. Nice!
2Cellos–Let There Be Cello
Continuing in their transcriptions of pop, rock and classical. Their own piece is the best.
Forest of Dreams
Guitarist Callum Henshaw performs a nice mix of classical, Romantic and modern works. Play!
Padma Newsome–The Vanity of Trees
Solo work by member of the Clogs, with voice, combining elements of folk, avant, classical and pop.
Strandgut
Wild, avant/garde works for sax/accordion/strings, all interesting and varied. Play/sample!
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