Ingram Marshall: Three Penitential Visions; Hidden Voices

Marshall was the first composer selected for the SFNM CoMISSION ClLos Tigres de Marteub, and this CD provides a great sense of why.

Los Tigres de Marte

A 2004 recording featuring clarinet, elecronic keyboards, violins, viola, and cello.

La Koro Sutro

A resplendent work from one of our most beloved composers of the 20th century.

Silencio

Music of Arvo Part, Philip Glass, and Vladmir Martynov.

The Time Curve Preludes

An entrancing older work for piano, by one of my favorite American composers, William Duckworth.

The People United Will Never Be Defeated

Marc Andre Hamelin's performance is a powerful reading of one of the "Diabelli" Variations of the 20th Century.

Rzewski plays Rzewski

To stay in the piano vein, Ursula Oppens' recording of Four North American Ballads seems to be out of print but you can hear the composer's own version in this brilliant boxed set.

Corigliano & Rzewski: Ballads & Fantasies

A new recording by a Canadian artist deserves its recent slew of great reviews.

The Passing Measures

David Lang has one of the most original voices today and this may be his greatest work, a sublime extended duration work of painful beauty.

From Zero

Mode Records has made this wonderful DVD of films about John Cage’s method of working during his later years.

Another Sunrise

An uplifting, gorgeous pancultural work composed in Madrid, NM! This was written for me and my New York ensemble Essential Music, and also features Aki Takahashi on piano.

Unto the Hills

The American master’s recent first installment of his American Songbook, settings of folk song in his coloristic and resonant style.

Premiere recordings 3-CD set

These are the first available recordings of Eastman’s music, most of which was lost when he died young in 1990. Includes “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich,” “Crazy N__, “ “Gay Guerilla,” and more.

Litania

If you don’t know Somei’s music, you have a great surprise in store. This includes his transcendent “The Heavenly Spheres are Illuminated by Lights”, and features one of our favorites, pianist Margaret Leng Tan.

Long Night

Finally available – a long single of perhaps Kyle’s most beautiful work,  “Long Night” for 3 pianos. Say's SFNM's John Kennedy, "I used to play the bootleg cassette Kyle gave me all the time." All parts recorded here by Sarah Cahill.

The Complete 10-inch series from Cold Blue)

This west coast label famously issued some classics from the 1970’s and 1980’s on 10-inch LPs,  now available on CD. Music by Barney Childs, Peter Garland, Daniel Lentz, Read Miller, Chas Smith and others.

Decasia

The soundtrack for the film by the same name, this is a great work for large orchestra in micro-tonal tunings that drones away and slams you.

One Body

By SFNM"s own John Kennedy, featuring poetry by Joy Harjo, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Patchen, Walt Whitman, and others, set for the unique voice of countertenor/baritone Bruce Rameker.

Another SFNM exclusive release – new music for baroque instruments by 8 great young composers. Hard to find at Amazon - some copies available locally at the Candyman.

the girl in my alphabet

Irreverent and funny, penetrating and reflective – this young woman from the Caribbean is a most talented composer. Don’t miss “Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?”