Author Archives: laima1
Richard Carr–Places I’ve Walked
Lovely, evocative works for a variety of instruments, inspired by his world-wide treks. Environmental sounds, voices in addition to instruments. Play!
Swan Hennessy–Complete String Quartets 1-4
Romantic yet modern works for string quartet. Play!
Mieczyslaw Weinberg–24 Preludes
Composed between 1960 and 1970, cello solos here transcribed for violin–tense, keening, emotional.
Simon Zochbauer–Achad
Trumpet + string quartet, modern/contemporary, varying. Nice!
Dileramando Reis–Guitar Music
Lovely guitar pieces, modern, Brazilian. Play!
Speak, Be Silent
Four contemporary composers, quiet or staccato or loud. All pieces very different.
John Robertson–Virtuosity
Nice orchestral works, some fairly short, clarinet concerto particularly nice!
Forgotten Dreams–Australian Guitar Music
All contemporary solo guitar pieces. Nice!
Christoph Enzel–Rosary
Smooth, ambient, mostly sax forward pieces, occasional strings, vocals. Play!
Ylva Klog and Andrea Tarrodi–Piano Pieces
Solo piano pieces, mostly minimalist, quiet works by two composers. Nice!
Cormac Byrne and Adam Summerhayes–Stone Soup
Fiddles, Indian strings, percussion works with Indian, Middle Eastern, and Irish folk elements. Play!
MIchael Zev Gordon–In the Middle of Things
Contemporary works for clarinet, violin, piano and cello, solos, duos or all, either languid or staccato. Interesting!
Juri Seo–Respiri
Contemporary string pieces, trk 2 like a modern Bach–wide range of string sounds. Play!
Paul Muller-Zurich–String Quartet op. 4
Very gracious modern string quartets and a trio by a Swiss composer. Very nice!
Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, Eivind Aarset–Lost River
Meandering, improvised pieces for drums, electronics, trombone, guitar. Pieces are varied, some more electronic/avant than others. Play!
Duo Fantasy
Violin and piano duos by 3 composers, early 20th century plus one modern. Bax’s particularly nice!
Colour and Light–20th Century British Piano Music
British works, modern, either lyrical or abstract, and most very short. Play!
Simonne Draper–Portraits in Guitar
Contemporary and modernized traditional sounding guitar, with some, I thought somewhat marred by electronic orchestra.
Robert Schumann–Fantaisie, Kreisleriana, Kinderszenen
Known and lovely solo piano pieces, Romantic!
Daniel Elms–Islandia
Electro/acoustic pieces, minimal, lyrical, all inspired by the people and places of NE England. Nice!
Jeffrey Brooks–The Passion
Three pieces for amplified large ensemble, rhythmically varying. Play/sample!
Direct Contact
Solo piano pieces by varied composers, all modern/contemporary. Excellent!
Paul Lewis–Harpscape
Very lyrical, classical and jazzy contemporary solo harp pieces. Nice!
Spark–Common Sense Composers Collective
Contemporary string pieces mixing classical and abstract, one with like rap, varied works.
Nikoghayos Tigranian– Armenian Folk Dances
Solo piano pieces from the turn of the last century, intense vs lyrical, from one of the first Armenian folk music collectors/composers. Play!
