New Classical

  • We’re getting a new Ô Lake album from French composer Sylvain Texier in 2023. Still is scheduled for an independent release on Mar. 3. The LP’s first single is a solo piano composition entitled “Innocence.” Texier has reportedly garnered more than five million streams since launching the Ô Lake project in 2017. Prior to that, he was…

  • French composer and pianist Melaine Dalibert has a new LP due out Jan. 20 that is sure to earn the respected artist an even greater international following. Magic Square, out on the FLAU label, is a sparsely elegant collection of eight new pieces. The album’s first single is a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto, who received…

  • Biliana Voutchkova has released a video of her new solo work, entitled “Ruins Of Rules.” This is a revised version for violin, voice, field recordings and mini-speaker installation. Voutchkova says the piece is an exercise in freedom of expression. “The work has been created as a reflection of my wish to escape the boundaries between…

  • Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas and Fiorella Camilleri  – Hasta Alicia baila 0.00  Sang-Hie Lee and John Corina – Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 109 – Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo 5.02  Samuel A. Livingston – Silvertube Variations 14.57  Ferdinando DeSena – Adagio for Friends 20.45  Nasim Kushnawaz – Rag Charukesi 28.22  Brian Belet – Fantasia-Nocturne…

  • Two works from the last decade by American composer Steve Reich have been recorded for the first time by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Susanna Mälkki. Runner/Music for Ensemble and Orchestra is out now via Nonesuch Records. A vinyl release is scheduled for Dec. 2. Runner is composed “for a large ensemble of winds,…

  • Shawn E. Okpebholo – Two Black Churches – I. Ballad of Birmingham 0.00  Émilie Girard-Charest – Asyndètes 9.11  Rubin Henkel – This is the Wall 22.38  Peter Dayton – Si Solamente – II. Barcarola 26.17  Eric Biddington – Cats of Hillmorton 36.52  Michael Murray and Genevieve Fulks – The Last Invocation 48.13  Benjamin Kamins –…