Classical: Contemporary and Mood: Intellectual
SILVIO AMATO: Faraway flares
Contemporary classical Music for instrumental ensemble
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROBERT IAN WINSTIN: Oedipus Requiem
Award winning Requiem based upon the Oedipus tragedy (Sophocles) by Robert Ian Winstin.
Recommended if you like Robert Ian Winstin, Kiev Philharmonic.CD price: $18.95 / MP3 price: $18.95
LUKE DANIELS: Lost Music Of The Gaels
A string quintet playing classical and traditional Irish music
CD price: $17.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ALEKSANDËR PEÇI: The Broken Song
The musical settings of Albania’s great contemporary composer, Aleksandër Peçi, represented here by the mixture of traditional, modern, expressive and personal elements that characterize this remarkable composer’s music.
CD price: $12.97
THE EDINBURGH QUARTET: Frontiers and Bridges
Adventurous music for adventurous people. This multi-cultural classical music CD is both compelling and powerful. A must for all those that want their emotions challenged.
GUSTAV HOYER: From Darkness Into Light
Classical, new music, new classical music
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
FAUSTO RAZZI: Opere
Several of the most important works by the italian composer Fausto Razzi has been included on this cd. Works for symphonic orchestra, chamber music, and elettronic, including two live-concert recording.
CD price: $14.80 / MP3 price: $14.80
WILLIAM ORTIZ: William Ortiz/ Chamber Music
Contemporary chamber music
CD price: $12.98 / MP3 price: $12.98
DOREEN TAYLOR-CLAXTON AND VALERIE DUECK: HAIL Canadian Art Song
"A glorious voice, a riveting stage presence" Stuart Hamilton, QuizMaster, CBC Opera Quiz. Award winning musicians Doreen Taylor-Claxton and Valerie Dueck are "better than ever in this important contribution to Canadian art song.” Jill LaForty
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ADRIATICO ENSEMBLE: Astor Piazzolla - Arvo Pärt - Nino Rota
A collection of tracks composed by Astor Piazzolla, Arvo Pärt, Nino Rota, performed live by the Adriatico Ensemble.
REDASLA: RedASLA 1
Sonic Art, Electroacoustic, Latinamerican Contemporary, Computer Music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KIEV PHILHARMONIC / ROBERT IAN WINSTIN: Masterworks of the New Era - Volume 3
New works for various ensembles in the avante-garde 'classical' vein.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
KIEV PHILHARMONIC / ROBERT IAN WINSTIN: Masterworks of the New Era - FOUR
Really fantastic new scores for varying ensembles by living composers in the 'classical' vein.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
ARNI EGILSSON/THE ARNAEUS ENSEMBLE: Chamber Music
Classical string quartets and string quintets by Arni Egilsson, an internationally recognized double bass soloist.
CD price: $14.96 / MP3 price: $12.00
ARNI EGILSSON/THE ARNAEUS ENSEMBLE: From The Rainbow
Chamber Music for strings and strings and piano by a gentleman with an international reputation as a Double Bass soloist.
CD price: $14.96 / MP3 price: $12.00
PHILHARMONIA BULGARICA / ROBERT IAN WINSTIN: Masterworks of the New Era - VOLUME ONE
Award-winning new composers recorded by World-Class orchestras - "Isn't it time you added another letter to you musical alphabet?"
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
VARIOUS ARTISTS: 'Pataphisical Piano
This selection of sounds and silences of composer Andrew Hugill played by six young and gifted pianists, embraces a sound world quite unique and extra-ordinary. A serene counterpoint of pianistic sound evolves around, against and within itself.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE: Americantus: The Music of Britton Theurer
Reflective, poignant and virtuosic music for brass.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.97
DIEGO CONTI - STEFANO TAGLIETTI: Wordless Dialogues
Experimental "dialogues" melting violins, classics such as Sibelius and Prokofiev with compositions by Ligetti, Frank Zappa, Sting, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, Coltrane.
CD price: $15.00
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE: Five
Cutting edge brass music by living American composers.
Recommended if you like Igor Stravinsky.CD price: $15.00
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE: Winning Artists Series
Meridian's first album featuring some of the most amazing new music for brass ever written.
CD price: $20.00
NACUSA: Greetings from... NACUSA Composers
This compilation features music in just about every style of contemporary classical music by 13 composers from the National Association of Composers/USA
CD price: $10.00
ALEKSANDËR PEÇI: Albanian Lament
The first release of contemporary music from Albania, introducing the works of Aleksandër Peçi, the country's most prominent composer. Feat. Albanian musicians exclusively, this CD marks the first ever recording of new music in Albania by a foreign label
CD price: $12.97
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE: Smart Went Crazy
One of Meridian Arts Ensemble's best selling records.
Recommended if you like Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa.CD price: $15.00
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE: Prime Meridian
An album dedicated to the memory of Zappa by the group that he blessed.
Recommended if you like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart.CD price: $15.00
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE: Anxiety of Influence
Meridian adds piano for their sixth album here with repertoire that "romps through this new sonic spectrum."
CD price: $15.00
PHILHARMONIA BULGARICA / ROBERT IAN WINSTIN: Masterworks of the New Era - VOLUME TWO
Award-winning new scores recorded by the Philharmonia Bulgarica with Robert Ian Winstin conducting. The "Three B's" are still great - but isn't it time you added another letter to your musical alphabet?
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
THE MONTANA MANDOLIN SOCIETY: Mosaic
NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY AWARD IN 2004. BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM CATEGORY. The Montana Mandolin Society sets musical pieces from various cultures, genre, and eras into an art piece illuminating the complex partnerships of creativity, musicianship and
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STEVE LAYTON: All Bright Things
Well-known composer of modern classical and experimental music, for both real and virtual ensembles.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $6.85
MARKO CICILIANI: Tullius Rooms
Large scale composition for piano and electronics with a diverse musical landscape of sounds.Crosses boundry of classical contemporary and electronic.
Recommended if you like Cage.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
ARTHUR GOLDSTEIN: Intersections
Introspective and intimate 20th century classical piano and jazz compositions.
CD price: $15.00
JEREMY SCHIEFFELIN: Romantic Music For The End Of The World
Expansive orchestral instrumentals and songs.
CD price: $12.97
FRANCESCO BURRAI: Missa Aeterna Live
The eyes listen, without questions. This music precedes the experience. Destruction of every common place. Impulsive penetration inside of the spirit: suspension.
Recommended if you like Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno.MP3 price: $6.00
DENNIS RUFF: Entrances and Exits
The music is contemporary classical. The style is 21st Century neo romantic.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RICK SOWASH: Eroica
"American" classical (like Copland, Gershwin, Barber, etc.) with French and English influences (Poulenc, Vaughan Williams, etc.)
Recommended if you like Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SINUSQUARTETT.COM: Gatscha, Webern, Puccini
Listen to Music by Anton Gatscha a unknown Viennese composer coeval of Webern and Puccini
CD price: $12.97
TAYLOR HO BYNUM: Other Stories
"The best album of the year." - All About Jazz
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
ANTHONY BRAXTON / MATT BAUDER: 2 + 2 Compositions
Bauder's works are based on various classes of sound and the inspiration of Braxton and John Cage respectively, and Braxton's pieces come from his new Falling River Musics series, which in his words, "seeks to explore image logic construct 'paintings'
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
SCOTT SHUMAKER: Old Vienna
A light classical weekend excursion that is both provocative and pensive.
CD price: $7.95 / MP3 price: $7.95
ROBERT IAN WINSTIN / KIEV PHILHARMONIC: Outside the Box
The most popular of Robert Ian Winstin's works for orchestra recorded here with the composer conducting the Kiev Philharmonic and the National Opera Chorus of Ukraine. New sounding, but very traditional.
CD price: $18.95 / MP3 price: $18.95
MULTIPLE ARTISTS: Music From Two Millenniums
Modern classical gems that are complex rhythmically and requiring very precise interpretation; filled with fire, spirit and majestic heroism- provacotive music.
CD price: $10.00
TIMOTHY COLE: The Window
Beautiful, haunting and pensive contemporary piano compositions with strings orchestration
Recommended if you like Craig Armstrong, Ludovico Einaudi.MP3 price: $12.97
DENNIS RUFF: Before the Law, etc.
The music on this CD is in the eclectic style of early 21st Century "classical" music, being primarily through-composed and improvisatory with suggestions of the Romantic Era.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
VICTORIA JORDANOVA: In a Landscape
Jordanova defies categories, she is a virtuoso harpist and a composer, but she has never been content to take the standard route associated with her instrument. The harp is not the end for Jordanova, only a means to a far larger field of play.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
EDWARD SCHAFFER: Symphony #4 "Sol"
Classical
Recommended if you like Ralph Vaughan Williams.CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
MICHAEL GOGINS: Semblance
This generative music was composed algorithmically and synthesized using Csound; it is 'experimental' but finished, 'ambient' in a sense, and purely instrumental music meant for serious listening.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
ALEJANDRO MUZIO: Tango Sin Palabras
His native city of Montevideo, Uruguay, has given composer Alejandro Muzio a most unique intrumental medium, the bandoneon, and the marking infuence of the tango, the signature urban sound of the Rio de la Plata.
Recommended if you like Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Gardel.CD price: $12.97
NEIL LUCKETT/ADITI: Dust and Rain
Three contemporary string quartets comprising twelve movements which have impressionistic and cinematic flavours.
Recommended if you like Béla Bartók.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STEVE LAYTON: Different Light, Same Window
Uneasy contemporary classical music by American composers.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $7.25
RICK SOWASH: Sanctuary at 3am
"American" classical (like Copland, Gershwin, Barber, etc.) with French and English influences (Poulenc, Vaughan Williams, etc.)
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JESS JURKOVIC - PEDRO GIRAUDO: Blue and Violet
The intimate nature of a duo setting allows Blue and Violet to aurally satisfy, through focused listening or as background music.
Recommended if you like Dave Brubeck.CD price: $11.99
CAMERATA SINGERS: Language of Love
The choral music Of James Mulholland, superbly performed.
CD price: $10.00
WENDY REID: Tree Pieces
Experimental musical processes which attempt to reflect nature in its manner of operations.
CD price: $17.99
JIM SKINGER: Many Roads
Contemporary music for solo and ensemble classical guitar as well as duos with orchestral instuments with music from Brazil, Argentina, British Isles and USA.
CD price: $15.00
DEAD POET CLAN: The Greatest Poems
Rap, given the boost of the greatest lyrics written in the English language in the last three hundred years.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
BANTER2.007: Beyond Beautiful Mountain
Two-part inventions based on Josef Matthias Hauer's Trope Chart I.
CD price: $12.97
NOAH CHRISS: Al and George- An American Opera
An opera about the year 2000 presidential election.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
B.Å. BRÅMMØ: Global Warming
This is the eagerly awaited fusion of post-serialism in modern music and pop. This is the fusion of Penderecki and ABBA/Bach. B.Å. Bråmmø is the future of music.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ADVENT: Cantus Firmus
Symphonic progressive rock with an emphasis on intricate compositions and arrangements (including lots of thematic development, counterpoint, and lush orchestrations).
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
THE AMERICAN STRING QUARTET: Richard Danielpour: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, & 4
The skillful presentation of three powerful masterpieces from American composer Richard Danielpour.
CD price: $11.99
BENJAMIN PIERCE: Wheels of Life
Classical music performed on the tuba and euphonium.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
RON FLORES: SPACEWALK
SPACEWALK is an orchestral experience that's out of this world,making you feel the sensation of lift-off to outer space,walking thru space, encountering a UFO,traveling thru dark matter and landing on Mars.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
LOOPS & TOPOLOGY: Airwaves
Topology and Loops celebrate a century of radio with some of the most significant recorded broadcasts - the result is part opera, part documentary part entertainment.
CD price: $21.00
FLUTTR EFFECT TRIO: Swallows and Sparrows
Haunting classical style sounds with rock inspired melodies.
Recommended if you like Tori Amos, Iva Bittová.CD price: $10.00
MAXWELL'S DEMON: Prometheus
Classic Swedish prog sound from an American band, using 20th century compositional techniques and strictly analog recording equipment and instruments (yes, we use a real Mellotron :-).
CD price: $12.97
JINNO (ANALOG PUSSY): AIR
Experimental Electronic & Neo Classical Music -- Air was the first album release by Jinno & contains early works from before he turned in to Electronic Dance Music.
THE HELIOTROPE TRIO: The Heliotrope Trio
An eclectic mix of chamber music for violin, cello and piano,The Ht3 delivers striking renditions of music from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries (classical, tango, minimalism and atmospherism).
Recommended if you like Ahn Trio, Eroica Trio.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MARK LOGAN: Abstracts- Compositions For Solo Guitar
Classical music for solo guitar; gentle, uplifting and warming to the heart.
CD price: $12.97
JIM SKINGER: Just For friends
Original & traditional works for guitar.
Recommended if you like Andrés Segovia and John Williams, Baden Powell.CD price: $12.95
NMON FORD: The Sweetest Brilliance
"The Sweetest Brilliance" is a piano-and-vocal recording of Pulitzer Prize-winner William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein's quirky, dark, serio-comic cabaret songs.
THE SYNTHONIC ORCHESTRA, BAND & CHOIR: There Was A Time, Europa - Vol. I
"Ode to Joy" still remains the top International download of all four CDs to date of 2008 - CJ, 05-2008.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
JIM RITCHIE: Scott Joplin Programmed by Jim Ritchie
Scott Joplin's original published scores are strictly intrepreted using modern computer technology. The result reveals the syncopations, melodies and harmonies notated, at tempi intended by their composer.
Recommended if you like Scott Joplin.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DR.ROD: A Classic Case
Contemporary classical crossover treatments to some of the world's most memorable melodies with original lyrics.
CD price: $15.95 / MP3 price: $15.95
SOFTEAR: melodious.contemporary
melodious contemporary vocal and instrumental music with lyrics by Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Donald Justice and others
CD price: $9.95
MASARU TAKESHITA: Bright Spots in Music
Original compositions that explore the connections between the analytical mind and music modelled after 11th century Japanese lyrical poetry.
CD price: $16.00
JULIA POWELL: Music Swims Back to Me
a small chamber ensemble immersed in Anne Sexton's poetry of confusion, beauty. and loss. Featuring the amazing soprano Ellen Ritchey.
Recommended if you like George Crumb.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GERALD BOY: Medieval Cottage Songs
Soothing original classical guitar compositions of a refined European style with folk and Spanish influences; great to listen to for mellowing out, meditating, or for background music when having a heart-to-heart with friends.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
YANNIS KYRIAKIDES: a conSPIracy cantata
Prize-winning works by ground-breaking composer Yannis Kyriakides. Eerie vocals and raw electronics slowly unfold over time. Rhythmic energy , high tension and unorthodox sound sources characterise the three stunning compositions on the CD.
MP3 price: $14.00
LOU LEO/GEORGE PERENY THE ELECTRIC POET: lou leo sings the electric poet
...classic rock full of love and poetic fury.
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Neil Young.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
