Composer Frank Brickle, winner of a 2010 NEA Artistic Excellence award, is featured on this disc with a spectrum of works written for and performed by the Cygnus Ensemble, joined by sopranos Haleh Abghari and Elizabeth Farnum.
The first album from acclaimed composer Jonathan Dawe, featuring stunning performances by the Cygnus Ensemble, Alan Feinberg, and the Phoenix Ensemble.
"It reminds me somehow of the distant and lonely sound world of Vladamir Ussachevsky's musique concrete of the 1960s, except that Brody's sounds attract the ear more--no surprise after 40 years of technological development."
Prepare yourself for a redefinition of the flute, for you are about to experience a range of expression and color hitherto unexplored throughthis revered instrument.
Hausmusik features classical guitarist William Anderson with his colleagues from the Cygnus Ensemble in stunning performances of 20th c. solo and chamber music, much of which has never been recorded before.
Transforms for Piano includes 14 of the 34 “transforms” performed by Laurie Hudicek. Each transform is a character piece which explores in depth some aspect of the opening musical exposition.
Paris X brings together music by the X-patriate Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) and the X-centric Erik Satie (1866-1925), two Parisians whose personal acquaintance was slight but whose music and artistic vision offer a fascinating tapestry of similarity and difference.
24 fantasy-pieces after the zodiac for amplified piano
Laurie Hudicek, Piano
The fine line between fantasy and reality, where dreams can seem real and reality seems an illusion, is the place in which these 24 fantasy pieces exist, a “dream within a dream” as another American icon may have described it.
Solo Music for Winds after the heavens' brightest stars
Robert Martin
"Their vigorously modernist style places [these pieces] in a contemporary world of quantification, precision, and disinclination to accept received ideas without acute analysis."
Soundscape, Collected Works Vol. 1 is the first volume in a series which will document the major works by acclaimed multidimensional composer, Dary John Mizelle, and includes works for percussion, toy piano, and electronic media.
