Classical: Contemporary and Avant Garde: Classical Avant-Garde
LIVIU MARINESCU: Chamber Music
A fascinating new album of chamber music by the Romanian composer Liviu Marinescu
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TODD BRUNEL & ARA SARKISSIAN: Invocation And Dance
Clarinet & piano duets, two classical works and a few of our own collaborative compositions.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ANTONIO MOSTACCI/MIRIAM GARAGNANI: Bussotti Conti Corridore Margola Taglietti
Italian Contemporary Music for Cello and Piano, Bussotti, Margola, Corridore, Conti, Taglietti
Recommended if you like Cello.CD price: $19.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
STEPHANIE REA: Solo French and American Flute Works
Various unaccompanied flute works that are introspective in nature, some are improvisatory-like, though not jazz; ranges from avant garde to Native American to modern classical works.
CD price: $12.97
MIKE GARSON (PIANO) AND JIM WALKER (FLUTE): Jim Walker Plays the Music of Mike Garson
Defining Jim Walker is no easy task. There are few musicians today who cross stylistic borders with the ease and beauty that is this man's legacy. From Beethoven to Bowie, Nine Inch Nails to No Doubt, Mike Garson is known around the world.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.CD price: $14.95
ALFRED SCHNITTKE / TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Concerto No. 3; Sonata No. 2; "A Paganini"
The music of Alfred Schnittke. Levon Ambartsumian, violin; Anatoly Sheludyakov, piano. Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony
CD price: $15.99
SHOSTAKOVICH / THE ARCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Concerto for Piano, Orchestra and Trumpet
Levon Ambartsumian, conductor Two Pieces, Op.11 ARCO Chamber Orchestra Chamber Symphony, Op.110a Damon Denton, piano Concerto No.1 for Piano, Orchestra and Trumpet Fred Mills, trumpet
Recommended if you like Gerard Schwarz.CD price: $15.99
JOSHUA PIERCE, WITH JOHNNY REINHARD & MIKE ELLIS: play John Cage, Charles Ives, Ivan Wyshnegradsky Live at the DOM / Alternativa Festival
Brilliant performance of music by John Cage, Charles Ives, Ivan Wyshnegradsky.
CD 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
WALTER RINALDI: Alle Porte Della Terra
Contemporary music: concertos and works for string orchestra by the Italian Composer Walter Rinaldi
Recommended if you like Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean Sibelius.CD price: $10.90 / MP3 price: $6.50
J.C. COMBS: Charmed Elixirs
A set of 12 contemporary classical works composed for piano. These works are designed to spark your imagination and accompany you on your listening fare.
Recommended if you like John Zorn, Steve Reich.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
DANIEL LENTZ: Voices
5 unique voices performing 5 unique pieces. Harold Budd, Ellis Hall, Megumi Hashiramoto, Jessica Karraker/Lowe, Gene Bowen
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DANIEL LENTZ: Huit Ou Neuf Pieces Dorees A Point
Dinner music for the musical gourmand, based on 9 dishes the composer enjoyed at some of the best restaurants in paris. Many of the sounds used are digital samples of those one finds in a fine restaurant: fine wine glasses and flatware, dishes, voices, et
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CONTINUUM SAX: Icon
"Leading Australian sax quartet cross pollinates with the didgeridu evoking the space and timeless landscapes of Australia"
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
LUCIA MICARELLI: Interlude
Contemporary violin music, influenced by classical and jazz, with a focus on lyricism and emotional honesty.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAWN AVERY & TOM MCGRATH: Viento
Contemporary Classical Music of indigenous themes.
Recommended if you like Dead Can Dance, Meredith Monk.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE EXPLORATION PROJECT CABALLERO AND SCOTT RIFKIN: Live in NYC on December 2, 2006
This music can be described as Classical, Neo Classical, Avant Garde Classical and Experimental. It features six string guitar playing, Ten String guitar playing and synthesizer/keyboard work. The music is spontaneous, with nothing being notated.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.00
KIEV PHILHARMONIC - ROBERT IAN WINSTIN: Masterworks of the New Era - Volume Eight
Totally unique - new classical music by living composers
CD price: $18.95 / MP3 price: $18.95
KEVIN MCCORMICK: Squall
Post-rock; alternately introspective and powerful; atmosphere and substance; song-cycle for the soul
MP3 price: $9.99
THE KATIA LABEQUE BAND: Unspoken
The internationally highly acclaimed classical pianist Katia Labèque teams up with drummer Marque Gilmore and composer/electronics performer Dave Maric for this highly original, enthralling and enigmatic exploration of lyricism, texture and style.
ERIK FRIEDLANDER: Maldoror
Ten cello improvisations inspired by the surrealist poems of Lautreamont; intense, mystical and beautiful -- it is a journey into music's darkest heart.
Recommended if you like John Coltrane, John Zorn.CD price: $13.00
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
ROBERT EEN: Your Life is Not Your Own
Cello and vocal music of beauty, heart and humor, inspired by real and imagined landscapes; a chilling and heart-rendering meeting of contemporary Classical composition with World music.
Recommended if you like Carter Burwell, Meredith Monk.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
EDWARD PEREZ: Opus 1-6 Ad Libitum, Music For L.w. Smith
Classical contemporary compositions that take the listener on an introspective journey that examines the confines of one's innermost feelings.
AMOS ELKANA: Works 1992 - 1996
Avant garde original contemporary classical compositions written for traditional orchestral instruments without traditional boundaries.
CD price: $10.00
THE OMNI ENSEMBLE: The OMNI Ensemble plays works of Jim Lahti - chamber music
The OMNI Ensemble presents here the woodwind chamber music of Jim Lahti - a firm believer in the concept that tonality is still a valid musical language in which to communicate.
CD price: $15.00
MIKE GARSON: Piano Anthology
From Bach to Bowie, east coast to west coast, piano keyboards to computer keyboards, Mike has worked to make the world a more creative, compassionate and compelling place. He remains a man of many talents and limitless inspiration.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.CD price: $14.95
VYACHESLAV ARTYOMOV, SOFIA GUBAIDULINA, VICTOR SUSLIN: Astreja
Spontaneous improvisation by academic composers
CD price: $14.97
APOSTOLOS PARASKEVAS: Visions of Azure
This remarkable recording opens with music especially written for the guitar in the characteristic sounds and rhythms of Latin America - an area celebrated for its associations with guitar music.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $10.00
JOHN WEST: REV'D UP ORGAN
Classical - Energized, unusual, expressive and exciting pipe organ music with MIDI.
CD price: $20.00 / MP3 price: $20.00
ROLAND CHADWICK: One
Contempoary Compositions for Classical Guitar
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SPAGHETTI WESTERN STRING CO.: Quiet Mob Ep
Spaghetti Western String Co. is avant-garde chamber music melding European and American traditional music.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TAYLOR HO BYNUM: Other Stories
"The best album of the year." - All About Jazz
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
ROBERT IAN WINSTIN / KIEV PHILHARMONIC: Masterworks of the New Era - Volume Five
Beyond descriptions - classical, new classical, avant garde, neo-romantic, neo-classical, orchestral, romantic, chamber music, etc.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
ALEXEI LUBIMOV: Dedication
Modern classical piano music
Recommended if you like Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov.CD price: $12.97
DANIEL PANASENKO / MARK WYMAN: Daniel Panasenko / Mark Wyman
Soundscapes created with classical guitar and accordion.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RICHARD TRYTHALL: Out of Bounds
Avant-garde classical composer-pianist comes back home to romantic melodies, assymetrical rhythms and his first love - the piano.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
BCM INTERNATIONAL: Men of Industry
BCM International is a consortium of four composers. While diverse in background and stylistic approach, we share a desire to enrich the repertoire with music unbound by traditional thought or idiomatic cliché.
CD price: $15.00
MARTHA MOOKE: Enharmonic Vision
"Playing a space-age five-string viola, using digitial effects to sound like everything from a swarm of insects to a Hendrix power guitar... Startlingly original"
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
ROBIN COX ENSEMBLE: Robin Cox Ensemble
A strings and percussion chamber group performing the classical, jazz, and avant-garde influenced music of Robin Cox.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AMY X NEUBURG: Residue
Avant-cabaret, with electronic rhythms and textures and thick layers of looped vocals sung in every style -- imagine Laurie Anderson meets Bjork meets opera.
CD price: $14.99
MIKE GARSON: Homage to My Heroes
These 16 original compositions - all written in Mike's signature improvisational style - pay tribute to the musical masters who have influenced him over the years. Their intent is to complete the cycle and provide healing, enjoyment and inspiration.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $12.95
PAUL LEHRMAN / UMASS LOWELL PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: George Antheil: <i>Ballet Mécanique</i> and Other Works For Player Pianos, Percussion & Electronics
Avant-garde industrial music from the 1920s
CD price: $16.00
CHARLES KNOX: 2002 - Chamber Music of Charles Knox
Eclectic 20th century chamber music, often lyrical, well crafted, with subtle wit and humor.
Recommended if you like Erik Satie.CD price: $14.98
TRIMBACH: 3 Chamber Poems
Classical music for the 21st century: three long works [10-15 minutes], each based on words and ideas that I called poems, in which the music explores the emotions attached to these poems.
CD price: $7.00
CHRIS LUDWIG: Expressivity
A fresh, new collection of contemporary piano solos by Canadian, Chris Ludwig, this CD presents a variety of moods, forms and styles.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
LOIS SVARD: Ear-Walking Woman DVD
Experience Annea Lockwood's prepared piano from the inside - with a close-up view during performance of the detuned strings, the superball mallets, the Buddhist prayer gong, the water glass, the cedar balls, and all of the other implements.
Recommended if you like John Cage, George Crumb.CD price: $16.49
JEFFREY HOLMES, VERONIKA KRAUSAS, NAOMI SEKIYA: FOOD: New Music for Guitar Duo
Avant-garde music for two acoustic guitars
CD price: $16.00
SABRINA SIEGEL: flutter: Embodiments
Challenging avant-garde improvised electric guitar, free, visceral, embodied
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RICHARD TRYTHALL: Parts Unknown
Avant-garde classical composer-pianist comes back home to romantic melodies, assymetrical rhythms and his first love - the piano.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
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
TIM WEED: Milagros
Original virtuoso classical banjo works by Tim Weed, an eclectic acoustic musician who recorded with Dave Matthews Band in 2008. Tim's work has been featured on National Public Radio and is likened to Bela Fleck.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
BRIAN GILLETT: Sonic Stock
Highly imaginative works for piano, chamber, and orchestra are tonal yet push the envelope of modern classical music.
CD price: $13.67 / MP3 price: $13.67
THE SPACE BETWEEN WITH MATTHEW SPERRY: The Space Between with Matthew Sperry
One of the more inventive collectives in improvisational music, classical experimentalism and world fusion. Striking avant garde pieces that stretch the imagination as well as the ear.
Recommended if you like John Cage & Lou Harrison.CD price: $12.99
ZELDA AND THE UNIBROWS: Neves-eatnouT
Classical and avant-garde-influenced cartoon electronica, featuring piano solos, sound collage, 12-tone music, polkas, waltzes, and a tango.
CD price: $10.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Lines Of Light
A varied selection of works by Australian & American composers, of both religious and secular nature. Inspirational organ pieces, ambient solo piano pieces, avant-garde improvisations and a Beethovian jazz fusion romp.
CD price: $12.97
DEREK STRAHAN: Echoes/Fantasies
Works by seven Australian composers varying in style from sonic adventure in the avant garde to melodious works for clarinet & mandolin, lyrical vocal music and an intriguing 'battle of the anthems'.
Recommended if you like Darius Milhaud.CD price: $12.97
BURGER/KLEWITZ: Spiritual Standards (Secunda)
warm blend of the greatest melodies of classical music and contemporary intimate duet improvisations, uplifting instrumental music with a lot of depth.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
KEITH BURSTEIN: Keith Burstein - Three Preludes for Piano
Classical New Romantic piano music from a contemporary master of tonality
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
CARDBOARD AMANDA: cardboard amanda
Extremely uncompromising and creative avant-garde music. Fistle gristle on my mumper.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
JOHN DAVID COUPLAND: Which Way?
Combining melodic classical guitar pieces in the style of Cavatina and the Concerto de Aranjuez with a not so classical voice, John zooms through the Biblical high points shedding a little light on the four ways God has dealt with Man.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
YVONNE CHAVEZ HANSBROUGH. FLUTE AND POLLY BRECHT, PIANO: American Flute Music: Leaving the Twentieth Century
This recording presents world-renowned American composers of music for flute and piano and solo flute of the late twentieth century. These compositions are virtuosic and expressive encompassing neo-romantic and avant-garde styles.
CD price: $15.95 / MP3 price: $15.95
CHRISTIAN KIEFER: Czar Nicholas Is Dead
Experimental, instrumental music in the vein of Brian Eno, Boxhead Ensemble, and the Dirty Three.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
KIEV PHILHARMONIC / ROBERT IAN WINSTIN: Masterworks of the New Era - Volume Seven
New Classical music - from the neo-classical style to the avante-garde. Award-winning composers.
CD price: $18.95 / MP3 price: $18.95
JOHN DAVID THOMAS: Pathway to Love
Eclectic, modern, contemporary classical, lite jazz, New Age synth, beautiful and inspirational instrumental origianl "genius" music of John David Thomas, with him as composer, arranger, producer, solo artist
CD price: $19.95 / MP3 price: $10.00
KENN HICKS: KENN HICKS SINGS AVANTI
Avanti fuses four genres of music:opera, jazz, spirituals and symphonies into a delectable palate for the listening audience.
CD price: $15.99
JORGE CABALLERO, JON MARGULIES AND SCOTT RIFKIN: The Exploration Project- Reflections
This music can be considered to have three classical acoustic guitars. The style is that of Avant Garde mixed with Classical Music. Many other musical styles are blended into this Cd.
Recommended if you like Project A.CD price: $10.98 / MP3 price: $7.00
OSCAR MANCINO: The Voice Of Naples
Original Neapolitan love songs of great musicality, artistry and Vesuvian energy, composed for an exceptional voice, breathing new life into the traditional Neapolitan song, for too long stuck in the groove of 'O Sole Mio'.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JAN MORRISON: Remember Me
"An engulfing flame of musical invention" Sacred electronica - mixing elements of choral music, chant, bells, flangy-grungy guitar and sorrowful violin with electronics. Songs that express the grieving process of shock and anger, denial, bargaining with
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
SCU ENSEMBLE: The Release
"...passion, anguish, and rage borne of a tumultuous love triangle are expressed in song...with its haunting melodies and urgent lyrics, immerse listeners into this raw world of emotions."
Recommended if you like Jake, André Previn.CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
FREDRICK HOFFER: CD# 10 Piano Suite, Number Eight
A reflective contemporary classical piano suite.
Recommended if you like Claude Debussy, Erik Satie.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
NICHOLAS A. SIBICKY: Sapling
This is a collection of exciting, intimate, and fun orchestral, chamber, solo, and electronic music by composer Nick Sibicky, drawing from classical, jazz, blues and minimalist influences.
MP3 price: $7.00
MIKE GARSON: Now! Music (Volume IV)
A refreshing blend of new-world improvisation with timeless classical formats. Recorded in "real time" using a Yamaha Disklavier Piano. Includes three sonatas, one nocturne, one prelude, one scherzo, one rhapsody and three NOW MUSIC® pieces.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.MP3 price: $9.95
STEPHEN VAN HANDEL: Chiaroscuro
68 minutes of richly detailed classically-tinged impressionism—bordered by deconstruction. Energy—Music for your morning & evening commute. Delicate New Chamber to Eclecticism via a John Williams-style.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
LYDIA KAVINA: Concerto per Theremin. Live in Italy
A mix of classical and avant garde music played on the Theremin by one of the greatest theremin virtuosos.
JOHN HODIAN: Available Forms
Hauntingly beautiful melodies, layered over intricate trance-like rhythms. In the vein of Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
THE SPACE BETWEEN WITH BARRE PHILLIPS: The Space Between with Barre Phillips
..open spaced free improv with unusual instrumentation..the Space between is Pauline Oliveros, Philip Gelb and Dana Reason
CD price: $14.99
ADRIAN & PAUL HOOPER, NIGEL WESTLAKE, ANN GHANDAR, LARRY SITSKY,: Ossia - Volume 1
A great CD for those who like to explore avant-garde music styles of the past 20 years. Works by 11composers feature in a CD produced by Jade for the Fellowship of Australian composers.
CD price: $12.97
CARSON P. COOMAN, ROBERT ALLWORTH, IAN SHANAHAN, BETTY BEATH, DE: Auburn Splendour
A wide range of works from Australian & American composers on both religious and secular themes. Inspirational organ pieces, chamber works for mandolin ensemble, avant-garde improvisations and songs of "peace, love and apprehension" for voice & guitar.
CD price: $12.97
ORPHEUS STRING QUARTET, TAMARA ANNA CISLOWSKA, GREG VAN DER STRI: Solar Dust
Works by 6 Australian composers: an elegant anthology comprising melodic nostalgia, well-crafted solo instrumental writing thru to sonic fascinations in avant garde works inspired by astronomy.
CD price: $12.97
ADELAIDE & QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS, SYDNEY MANDOLINS, ROS: Music For A Festive Occasion
10 Australian composers present a festive compilation of works giving an overview of music being written in Australia, from romantic to avant garde; from Symphony Orchestra to solo piano.
Recommended if you like Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, Sergei Rachmaninoff.CD price: $12.97
WENDY LOOMIS: strange conjunction
Lyrical impressionistic piano solos. Warm enticement into a jazz classical harmonic blend.
CD price: $10.00
