Five years ago, New Amsterdam Records released Planetary Candidate by Michi Wiancko. Planetary Candidate is an album of bold new compositions for solo violin commissioned by Michi Wiancko, “an alluring soloist with heightened expressive and violinistic gifts” (Gramophone Magazine) whose own compositions have  been described as “silvery and evocative” (The New Yorker). This project documents her journey as a violinist allowing her to “manifest and passionately inhabit a multitude of musical worlds.” Through this set of spectacular new works for violin, Wiancko celebrates her nearly four-decade relationship to an instrument that, when she plays it, “feels like an act of breathing.”