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𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐚 | Out Now!Spanning three decades of work, Nova presents a retrospective of Tobias Picker’s chamber music, performed...
25/07/2025

𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐚 | Out Now!

Spanning three decades of work, Nova presents a retrospective of Tobias Picker’s chamber music, performed by some of the twentieth century’s most renowned musicians. These pieces chart Picker’s artistic evolution, showcasing his distinct compositional voice. Featuring performances by Peter Serkin, The Manhattan Quartet, Emmanuel Ax, Lynn Harrell, Fred Sherry, and others, the album highlights Picker’s deep engagement with instrumental storytelling. The title piece, Nova—a companion to Schubert’s Trout Quintet—playfully nods to a different kind of “Nova”: Nova Scotia salmon.

FEATURING 
Tobias Picker, piano
Benjamin Hudson, violin
John Graham, viola
Fred Sherry, cello
Donald Palma, bass
Charles Neidich, clarinet
Ursula Oppens, piano
Lynn Harrell, cello
Ann-Marie McDermott, piano
Peter Serkin, piano
Young Uck Kim, violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
Eric Bartlett, cello
Virgil Blackwell, clarinet
Gordon Gottlieb, percussion
Susan Palma-Nidel, flute

📀 Produced and Mastered by Jeanne Velonis

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 | Out Now!MISSING is a powerful opera confronting the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls....
11/07/2025

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 | Out Now!

MISSING is a powerful opera confronting the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. With music composed by Brian Current and a libretto by Marie Clements, it follows Ava, a young woman whose encounter with the spirit of a lost Indigenous girl changes her forever. The Artists of The Opera MISSING (ATOM) and Continuum Ensemble, led by conductor Timothy Long, weave contemporary classical music with Gitxsan language and cultural traditions, moving through grief, memory, and justice, ensuring these voices continue to be heard.

CAST 
Ava – Cait Wood (Soprano) 
The Native Girl – Melody Courage (Soprano) 
Jess – Andrea Ludwig (Mezzo-Soprano) 
Devon – Asitha Tennekoon (Tenor) 
Dr. Wilson – Marion Newman (Mezzo-Soprano) 
Angus – Evan Korbut (Baritone) 
Native Mother – Michelle Lafferty (Mezzo-Soprano) 

📀 Produced by Brian Current
📀 Engineered by Dennis Patterson
📀 Mastered by Andrew Bove

𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮 | Out Now!“Seasons of Change,” a recomposition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is the frame for an Afrofutur...
20/06/2025

𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮 | Out Now!

“Seasons of Change,” a recomposition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is the frame for an Afrofuturist meditation / dreamscape on climate change, class and the nature of digital memory. Including public conversation and recorded interviews with the unhoused population around the heavy impact of climate change on their daily lives. This album features the voices of individuals experiencing homelessness, captured through a partnership between the Phoenix Symphony and Circle the City. During this collaboration, participants shared their reflections with Curtis. Circle the City, dedicated to providing healthcare to unhoused individuals in Maricopa County, has welcomed Phoenix Symphony musicians for regular visits to their sites and patients. These recordings were created in partnership with the Phoenix Symphony.

Featuring Laura St. John (), Njioma Grevious (), Charles Yang ()

📀 Produced by Nick Revel, Ryan Streber, Curtis Stewart
📀 Engineered by Curtis Stewart
📀 Mixed by Nick Revel
📀 Mastered by Ryan Streber

𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 | Out Now!Cellist Nicholas Finch and the NouLou Chamber Players present Cellostatus, a compelling album feat...
16/05/2025

𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 | Out Now!

Cellist Nicholas Finch and the NouLou Chamber Players present Cellostatus, a compelling album featuring three new works for cello and orchestra conducted by Jason Seber. This world premiere collection showcases compositions by Alyssa Weinberg, Dorian Wallace, and Ljova (Lev Zhurbin), exploring comprehensive themes in modern life through a blend of traditional and innovative musical elements.

📀 Produced by Theresa Leonard, Louis Levitt
📀 Engineered by Michael Culler
📀 Mastered by Andrew Bove

𝕋𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥 | Out Now!The live cast recording from LA Opera’s production of Kamala Sankaram’s acclaimed opera Thumbprint ...
25/04/2025

𝕋𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥 | Out Now!

The live cast recording from LA Opera’s production of Kamala Sankaram’s acclaimed opera Thumbprint tells the story of Mukhtar Mai, a young Pakistani woman who overcame incredible odds to seek justice. A first of its kind, the score melds the South Asian systems of raga and tala, the sounds of qawwali and Bollywood, and the structures and vocal fireworks of Western opera. This sold-out run was the final production where Kamala Sankaram also sang the role of Mukhtar, praised by the LA Times as “a rousing double threat, a compelling singer… You don’t leave the theater unimpressed or unmoved.”

Music by Kamala Sankaram
Libretto by Susan Yankowitz
Featuring LA Opera

📀 Produced by Kamala Sankaram
📀 Recorded and Mastered by Nick Tipp

𝔻𝕠𝕘 𝔻𝕒𝕪𝕤 | Out Now!David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s Dog Days is a haunting, post-apocalyptic tale of survival that red...
25/04/2025

𝔻𝕠𝕘 𝔻𝕒𝕪𝕤 | Out Now!

David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s Dog Days is a haunting, post-apocalyptic tale of survival that redefines modern opera. This groundbreaking American classic proves “beyond any doubt that opera has both a relevant present and a bright future” (The New York Times). Praised as “stunning in its ferocity” (Alex Ross), Dog Days is out now on Bright Shiny Things—more powerful and timely than ever.

Music by David T. Little
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Featuring Newspeak
Conducted by Alan Pierson
Based on the short story by Budy Budnitz

📀 Produced by David T. Little & Alan Pierson
📀 Recorded by Nick Tipp
📀 Mixing by Andrew McKenna Lee
📀 Mastering by Joe Lambert

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 | Out Now!Follow Marco Polo’s epic journey with the Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale conducted by Cha...
11/04/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 | Out Now!

Follow Marco Polo’s epic journey with the Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale conducted by Charles Bruffy on the Mirage Calls. This new recording features music from Rome to the Far East including Chen Yi’s Chinese Folk Songs, lavish choral tapestries of the Mongolian steppe, thunderous rhythms from the Middle East and India, and recently restored from the Vatican library, witness the first performance in nearly 500 years of Bartolome de Escobedo’s masterpiece, Missa ad te levavi.

Kansas City Chorale
Charles Bruffy, Artistic Director
Don Loncasty, Executive Director
Patrice Sollenberger, Artistic Assistant

📀 Produced by Blanton Alspaugh
📀 Engineered by Dirk Sobotka and Jacob Steingart
📀 Mixing and Mastering by Sound Mirror
🖼️ Cover Design by HAEG Design

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