The Finnish label Ondine releases “The Sound of Wings” by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits, dedicated to the memory of Amelia Earhart. Composer Tõnu Kõrvits (Tallinn, 1969) is one of the emblematic figures of the post-Arvo Pärt generation of Estonian musicians. A member of the Estonian Composers’ Union since 1994 and…

Welsh guitarist Gerard Cousins releases “The Poet Acts”, his second album of guitar transcriptions of pieces by Philip Glass. Guitar versions of Philip Glass’s works are not very common – among the best known are the Dublin Guitar Quartet’s versions of Glass’s String Quartets 2, 3, 4 and 5 –…

The Norwegian label LAWO Classics and Berlin’s bastille musique release two different records of pieces by Gérard Grisey. Coincidentally or not –and almost coinciding with the release of the biography of Gérard Grisey by the American journalist Jeffrey Arlo Brown, The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey–, just a few…

Neu Records releases the three string quartets by Joan Magrané, performed by Quatour Diotima. It is extraordinary, in the negative, how difficult it is to find recordings of contemporary music by Spanish composers. One of the rare exceptions is the recent release, through the Barcelona label Neu Records, of Madrigal,…

The catalogue of the prestigious British label Hyperion is now available on digital platforms. Four months ago the prestigious British record label Hyperion was acquired by Universal, adding to a classical music catalogue that already included the Decca and Deutsche Grammophon labels. Until now, Hyperion’s recordings were not available for…

Almost six years after its recording, “Regel #10 (Minimalism)” by the Spanish-Swedish duo Regler is released. In the avant-garde world, obscurity is almost the norm. Tracking down interviews, articles or album reviews/comments is an odyssey, and if you manage to find a website near you, you don’t manage to scrape…

Cantaloupe Music releases “Dystonia”, an album in which Mivos Quartet performs the music of J. G. Thirlwell, better known by his alias Foetus. Australian composer James George Thirlwell (Melbourne, 1960) is one of the most prominent figures in the alternative rock scene of the 1980s. He moved to London in…

French label Shelter Press releases an extraordinary collaborative album by Ben Vida, Yarn/Wire and vocalist Nina Dante. American composer Ben Vida (Dubuque, Iowa, 1974) has teamed up with chamber quartet Yarn/Wire and vocalist Nina Dante to record The Beat My Head Hit, a stunning album recently released by Shelter Press….

The album …Buen día y bendiciones… by Los Asquerosos is out. Edited by La tAtUcErA on May 17, 2023. Los Asquerosos are:Chema Pastor: percussion.Javier Entonado: piano, vocals, tapes.Special collaboration of: Marcos Sánchez and Iván Sánchez on percussions.Recorded in the Palacio de la Música (Torrevieja) La tAtUcErA, on 08/29/2022.Edited and mixed…

Audite releases the first recording of “Lanzelot”, Paul Dessau’s opera premiered in 1969. The German composer and conductor Paul Dessau (Hamburg, 1894-Königs Wusterhausen, 1979) was, together with Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler, one of the regular collaborators of the playwright Bertolt Brecht, for whom he composed the incidental music for…

The Belgian composer Wim Mertens releases his 67th album, “Voice of the Living”, a tribute to all the victims of wars. A month ago Voice of the Living, the new album by Belgian composer and pianist Wim Mertens, was released. It is a composition that had been commissioned ten years…

Nonesuch releases this Friday the recording of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, of “Dante” by Thomas Adès. This Friday, the Nonesuch label releases on both physical (double vinyl Lp) and digital formats, the recording of Dante, the three-act ballet based on Dante’s Divine Comedy composed by British…