Thomas Adès' Dante-a ballet score in three parts based on Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia-was recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel at a... more

2022 release. Nonesuch Records releases the first recordings of Steve Reich's Runner (2016) and Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018), performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by... more

Composed in 1976, Music for 18 Musicians has become a cornerstone of 20th century repertoire in general and percussion music in particular, and has been cited as the seed that ultimately spawned... more

Narrow Sea was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gil Kalish in 2017. The piece combines my previous explorations of folk song with a sonic universe that includes ceramic bowls, humming, a... more

The album comprises three works by Andres: the composer's third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal... more

2022 release from Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer Caroline Shaw and Attacca Quartet. Evergreen is five original works by Shaw: three pieces written for string quartet-Three Essays,... more

2021 release. This world premiere performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was commissioned by the LA Phil with generous support from the Maddocks Brown Fund for New Music as part of it's... more

Girls of the Golden West is a California opera, telling the story of the Gold Rush not through familiar time-worn myth, but in the words and deeds of real people: in the words of Mark Twain, "the... more

2022 release. Classical singer Julia Bullock makes her solo recording debut, Walking in the Dark. Bullock is joined on the album by London's Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif for... more

This 40-CD Box Set is an unprecedented comprehensive set that includes all of the composers recorded works spanning 4 decades through 2020. The release includes two extensive booklets containing new... more

Saxophonist/composer Joshua Redman and string ensemble Brooklyn Rider—both of whom are continuously blazing new musical trails—perform eight compositions from a suite by renowned composer Patrick... more

Commissioned by NASA for the Kronos Quartet and featuring pre-recorded sounds from the plasma around planets, Terry Riley's Sun Rings is about as close an experience to being in space as it is... more

2019 release. On Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw's album Orange, Attacca Quartet performs six of her pieces for string quartet. The string quartet form "has existed for hundreds of... more

2019 release. Pianist Jeremy Denk's c. 1300-c. 2000 presents a centuries-long story of constantly emerging possibilities and styles of musical expression, an evolution drawn in a single arc by the... more

On this first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, Doctor Atomic, the composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a cast led by Gerald Finley, who originated the role of J.... more

2018 release. Pulse is performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble - an artist collective committed to transforming the way music is created and experienced-and Quartet (2013) is played by... more

Bach keyboard pieces and a sonata for viola da gamba are arranged and played with mastery and invention on cello, mandolin and bass. The trio who, with Stuart Duncan, won two Grammys for "The Goat... more

2014 release from the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Co-commissioned for and recorded by Alarm Will Sound, the title piece references two songs by the English band Radiohead. Alan Pierson conducts... more

2021 release. On Jeremy Denk's Mozart Piano Concertos, Denk is joined by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for two Mozart concertos-No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 and No. 20 in D minor, K. 466-bookending... more

This is the original cast recording for three-time Tony Award® nominee Dave Malloy's musical Octet-recorded live during Signature Theatre's world premiere production at The Pershing Square Signature... more

2019 release. "The version of The Hunger that is presented on this recording is the concert version of the piece, which I made in 2017-18. The Hunger also exists in an extended version for stage... more

2015 release. For more than 40 years, San Francisco's Kronos Quartet - David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello) - has combined a spirit of fearless... more

2022 release. Tyondai Braxton releases Telekinesis-an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars, orchestra, choir and electronics. Featuring the Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr, the... more

New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records release The Blue Hour, a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland... more