PRESS RELEASE: Contemporary solo violin & choral music coming your way
Announcing Michi Wiancko's Planetary Candidate
Planetary Candidate is an album of bold new compositions for solo violin commissioned and performed by Michi Wiancko, “an alluring soloist with heightened expressive and violinistic gifts” (Gramophone Magazine). This project documents her journey as a violinist allowing her to “manifest and passionately inhabit a multitude of musical worlds.”
In these 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.” The album releases Sept. 18, but you can pre-order your copy at Bandcamp today!
Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, the fourth record in a partnership between New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records, will be released on September 25. Snider’s Mass, with a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action.
Originally commissioned by Trinity Church Wall Street, this recording features the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch.
Electro-acoustic Bliss from Composer Jacob Cooper
"surprisingly magnetic meditations on time"
- Pitchfork
Composer Jacob Cooper writes for the studio, where boundless possibilities rest at his fingertips and meticulous sound manipulations can be sculpted into his singular vision. His new album Terrain displays his passion for kinetic collaboration. He worked intensively with three poets who created original text for each work, and developed the music alongside vocalists Theo Bleckmann and Jodie Landau, as well as cellist Ashley Bathgate. Check it out and support on your platform of choice here.
New EPs from GRAMMY-winning Roomful of Teeth
“It's like Roomful of Teeth on different sides of the planet,” describes artistic director Brad Wells regarding the simultaneous release of a propulsively rhythmic The Ascendant from composer Wally Gunn alongside the immense resonance of Michael Harrison’s Just Constellations. There’s a beautiful contrast in these two EPs, with The Ascendant providing a close mic, highly produced studio sound as Roomful performs as if a band riffing with tight grooves and tight text, alongside a studio drummer (Jason Treuting of SO Percussion). That all takes a 180 in Just Constellations, where there are no words at all, only syllables. Both EPs are out Aug. 21.
