New Focus Recordings

independent NYC creative music recording label

[Ekmeles @Ekmeles]

Happy 5️⃣th Anniversary A Howl, That Was Also A Prayer🫀

The album features “End Words” by @trapanicomposer “Three Scenes from Sleep” by @Erin_Gee_ & “Motorman Sextet” by @ComposerBrook which we’ll perform again in NYC on the 25th and in Montreal on 2/24!

https://t.co/o1Q01Le5wQ

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[AnEarful @AnEarful]

@danlippel - Adjacence (@NewFocusLabel, 2024) Also out yesterday, this sprawling, adventurous, *essential* collection of new chamber works for guitar. Featuring 14 pieces and 12 premiere recordings, this will become a bible for #newmusic guitarists! #NewMusicFriday

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

With an original libretto inspired by the medieval poem of the same name, The Romance of the Rose blends medieval and contemporary allegory to dramatize how love, sex, and music wreak havoc on our sense of self

https://t.co/OQ2DYzsU1c

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Out now — Kate Soper: The Romance of the Rose

Pulitzer Prize finalist composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper releases the world premiere recording of her critically acclaimed opera The Romance of the Rose, featuring the dynamic @WetInkEnsemble

https://t.co/CPYjGfTM8Q

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

From composer Kate Soper's new opera The Romance of the Rose coming out tomorrow, here's the movement Meet Shame, featuring the @WetInkEnsemble and Soper herself as the character Shame

https://t.co/CPYjGfTM8Q

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From @danlippel's new album Adjacence coming out Friday, here's @nicomuhly's Wedge for guitar and percussion, featuring percussionist Jeffrey Irving

https://t.co/bYNmL9gKav

https://t.co/fHzNGdIyBU

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

With an original libretto inspired by the medieval poem of the same name, The Romance of the Rose blends medieval and contemporary allegory to dramatize how love, sex, and music wreak havoc on our sense of self

https://t.co/BNgJthrEqe

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Coming out this Friday — Kate Soper: The Romance of the Rose

Composer Kate Soper releases the world premiere recording of her critically acclaimed opera The Romance of the Rose, featuring the dynamic @WetInkEnsemble

https://t.co/CPYjGfTM8Q

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

The program highlights music across the stylistic spectrum, incorporating microtonality, improvisation, timbral experimentation, and carefully managed ensemble textures to create a broad snapshot of chamber repertoire with guitar

https://t.co/KeZJTFaBmb

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Coming out this Friday — @danlippel: Adjacence

Guitarist Daniel Lippel’s newest release is a compilation of chamber works recorded with various ensembles and collaborators that integrate varied aesthetics into one programmatic arc

https://t.co/bYNmL9gKav

[Schott Music NY @Schott_NY]

The world premiere recording of Kate Soper's critically-acclaimed opera "The Romance of the Rose", featuring @WetInkEnsemble will be released by @NewFocusLabel on Nov 15. Listen to a preview and pre-order the disc today!

https://t.co/hZncH9y1vV

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

With an original libretto inspired by the medieval poem of the same name, The Romance of the Rose blends medieval and contemporary allegory to dramatize how love, sex, and music wreak havoc on our sense of self

https://t.co/BNgJthr6AG

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Coming out November 15th — Kate Soper: The Romance of the Rose

Composer Kate Soper releases the world premiere recording of her critically acclaimed opera The Romance of the Rose, featuring the dynamic @WetInkEnsemble

https://t.co/CPYjGfTM8Q

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

The five pieces on flutist Hush create a dialogue between the different aesthetic forces at play and Michel tackles the diverse demands of this repertoire with command and sensitivity, matching her curatorial ingenuity with powerful performances

https://t.co/321fw8tZYj

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Out now — Roberta Michel: Hush

Five new pieces for flute with and without electronics by Victoria Cheah, @angelicamnegron, Jen Baker, @mertmorali, and Jane Rigler

https://t.co/aLg6RGrrjW

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

From flutist Roberta Michel's new album Hush coming out tomorrow, here's composer Jen Baker's The Great Bridge and a Lion’s Gate

https://t.co/aLg6RGrrjW

https://t.co/YGbv0Ij1vA

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A result of close collaborations. Michel brings her wide ranging virtuosity to all of the pieces, from acrobatic passagework to deep timbral excavation

https://t.co/321fw8tZYj

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Coming out this Friday — Roberta Michel: Hush

Flutist Roberta Michel releases Hush, a collection of new works for solo flute with electronics by Victoria Cheah, @angelicamnegron, Jen Baker, @mertmorali, and Jane Rigler

https://t.co/aLg6RGrrjW

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Yim plays with virtuosity and powerful expression throughout, convincingly framing these new pieces within the strong lineage of the unaccompanied violin music that has come before them

https://t.co/6rxIEvBLx5

[New Focus Recordings @NewFocusLabel]

Out now — Patrick Yim: One — New Music for Unaccompanied Violin

Six new works for solo violin performed by violinist Patrick Yim, featuring music by Ilari Kaila, Juri Seo, @takumaitoh, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, @mattschreibeis, and John Liberatore

https://t.co/Hpn940oFL3