New piano solo album by Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm releases «Day», an album of six solo piano pieces. German composer and producer Nils Frahm released a new solo piano album entitled Day last Friday. The album was recorded in the summer of 2022 outside the Funkhaus, the studio he use to work in Berlin, and is the…
Last volume of Crumb’s complete discography is released.
Today Bridge Records releases the last volume, number 21, of the complete works of George Crumb, who died in 2022. Today, Friday 1 March, the New York-based label Bridge Records has released the 21st volume of the complete works of American composer George Crumb, who died in 2022 at the…
Labèque sisters release Philip Glass’ entire “Cocteau Trilogy”
Deutsche Grammophon releases the entire “Cocteau Trilogy” by Philip Glass, in a version for two pianos by the Labèque sisters. French pianist-sister pair Katia and Marielle Labèque tomorrow release a double album dedicated to Philip Glass’s Cocteau Trilogy: the three operatic chamber compositions that the American composer composed between 1993…
A.L. Guillén releases on Liquen Records “Islas de cielo”.
Liquen Records has released “Islas de cielo”, by the Spanish avant-garde composer Antonio Luis Guillén. The Spanish poet, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Antonio Luis Guillén (Granada, 1975) -founder of bands such as Les Rauchen Verboten, Sefronia or Alondra Satori, among other projects- has an extensive discography to his name, A.L….
First recording of Philip Glass’s “Symphony No. 13”
Orange Mountain Music and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada release “Truth in Our Time”, the album featuring Philip Glass’ “Symphony No. 13”. On 30 March 2022, the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 13 took place in Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall. It was commissioned by the National…
Philip Glass revisits his early piano pieces
Philip Glass releases on OMM “Philip Glass Solo”, a new vision of his early piano pieces, recorded during his confinement. In addition to the extensive collection of records in which an also large number of performers of the most varied formats review the musical production of Philip Glass, the composer…
Steven Schick releases “Soundlines (On Language and the Land)”
American percussionist Steven Schick releases “Soundlines (On Language and the Land)”, the second CD in his “Weather Systems” trilogy. American percussionist Steven Schick (Iowa, 1954) released Soundlines (On Language and the Land) at the end of 2023, the second CD in the Weather Systems series, which he began releasing in…
Mode Records releases Luis Tabuenca’s “Naturstudium”
The New York label Mode Records releases “Naturstudium”, the second solo album by Spanish percussionist and composer Luis Tabuenca. The Spanish percussionist and composer Luis Tabuenca (Zaragoza, 1979) has just released on the New York label Mode Records his album Naturstudium – his second solo album, after Volavérunt, released in…
Tähe-Lee Liiv releases an album of Arvo Pärt’s piano works
The young Estonian pianist Tähe-Lee Liiv publishes “Diagrams”, with the complete piano works of Arvo Pärt. Arvo Pärt’s output for piano is relatively short, but as a primary instrument, the piano has played an important role in the development of his sound world – from the time when, as a…
Bruce Brubaker recreates for piano several ambient works of Brian Eno
American pianist Bruce Brubaker recreates for piano several of Brian Eno’s seminal ambient works in “Eno Piano”. The American pianist Bruce Brubaker trained as a concert pianist at the famous Juilliard School in New York and has also had a long career as a teacher at many of the world’s…
Late Pauline Anna Strom’s work reissued
RVNG Intl. releases a retrospective box set of late Pauline Anna Strom’s work, including a previously unreleased album. You can already read on the Rockdelux website my review on Echoes, Spaces, Lines, the retrospective box set released by RVNG Intl. that includes her first three albums – Trans-Millenia Consort, Plot…
Sarah Davachi releases “Long Gradus. Arrangements”
Canadian composer Sarah Davachi publishes “Long Gradus. Arrangements”, originally composed for the Bozzini Quartet. You can now read on the Rockdelux website my review of Long Gradus. Arrangements, the four-CD box set (and four and a half hours of music) of compositions for four different types of acoustic instrument ensembles…