New American Music for Violin and Guitar. All works commissioned by Duo46.

Original Music for Violin and Guitar 1950-1959

A high standard recording with exceptional compositions, based on a.o. music of North-India, Carnatica, Byzantic melodies of Greece. The last piece of this album is called 'Prelude to a moment of Silence......'

Original works by celebrated Dutch guitarist/composer Annette Kruisbrink, performed by Tom Edskes, Sjors Holleboom, Tania D'Hoest, Veerle D'Hoest, Arlette Ruelens and Annette Kruisbrink.

". . . 31 movements partitioned into four 'suites', each one representing the four seasons of the year. . . A high-class, quality production in all areas." Steve Marsh (Classical Guitar Magazine)

All the evidence heard on this brief recording shows Anido to be an especially talented composer in her native style. All the 'expected' elements are heard here: exciting rhythms, percussion, lyrically attractive pieces in both happy and mournful mode, etc.
(Steve Marsh, Classical Guitar)

Five of the best compositions by the Dutch guitarist and composer Annette Kruisbrink are on this outstanding CD recording.

'A world-class performance of uncompromising contemporary repertoire.' (Paul Fowles - Classical guitar)

A remarkable CD with the world's best repertoire for guitar and double bass, warmly welcomed by guitarists and musicians worldwide.

The world premiere of orchestral works by Alan Hovhaness performed by the KBS Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vakhtang Jordania.

Contemporary chamber music performed by the award-winning ensemble, enhakë. enhakë (in-HA-kee) is an emerging classical chamber ensemble comprised of members from South Korea and the United States.

World premiere recording of internationally celebrated Russian composer Nikita Koshkin performing his own works for solo guitar.

A delightful CD featuring the lighter side of Koshkin with tongue-in-cheek musical parodies.

Called the Heifetz of the clarinet, known for his double tonguing, circulr breathing, and extreme high range, Robert Spring presents a recording unlike any you've ever heard. On this program of historical pieces that were played and/or recorded by Jascha Heifetz, Spring creates many of his own fingerings for an extremely high technical range.

"Dragon's Tongue" is a CD of virtuoso music for clarinet and wind band. "[Robert Spring's] musicality and technique make this recording a must for every CD collection."
- The Instrumentalist Magazine

Korea's principal oboeist, Hee-Sun Lee, with the Russian Federal Orchestra under Vakhtang Jordania. Works of Bach, Mozart, Marcello, and Hummel.

A delightful recording featuring traditional favorites as well as new gems to the guitar repertoire

"Melodies are always at the heart of my composition process. Emotional music . . . inspired by my need to express and communicate my feelings in my own way to those I love.
-David Gaudreau

Solo guitar works composed and performed by the President of the Fondation de l'Ensemble musical Marguerite-de-Lajemmerais, Canada.

Music of South America for two guitars.

Matt Dunne plays classical guitar in Mission, San Jose

Forget the Alamo, has been critically acclaimed and features Mr. Dunne's compositions performed by a jazz quintet.

Cyrloud's meeting with the French guitarist/composer Jean-Marie Raymond in 2009 started a very productive musical collaboration culminating in the realization of these unpublished and rare recordings, under the supervision of the composer.

Chamber music works featuring the cello, by two of Canada's most prolific and performed composers.

The content of this recording from 1979 made the trio special for its diversity of instrumentation, which was unique, and by the rich contribution to the enlargement of the guitar’s repertoire, with original transcriptions and new works dedicated to the ensemble.

Music for two harps by America's foremost harp duo.

Contemporary classical guitar music based on Argentine folk music composed by Marcelo Coronel and performed by Christopher Dorsey.

A Trombone Extravaganza. Exciting performances of previously unrecorded music for solo trombone, trombone and piano, bass trombone and piano, and trombone choir.

Contemporary classical chamber music performed by an exciting young trio.

A stunning classical debut-album ...original repertoire and rare transcriptions, mature interpretation and powerful, emotional playing.

Oboe and English Horn Music of Sy Brandon. Accessible contemporary classical music performed by three outstanding oboists; Lauren Murray, Anita Ranucci Brandon, and Tricia Wlazlo.

A brilliant recording by one of Canada's finest guitar ensembles.

Rarely heard works by Vivaldi, L’hoyer, Damase, Hindemith, and De Biasi

Some of Koshkin's most enduring pieces brilliantly performed by Marina Alexandra.

Volume I of the Complete Works of Manuel Ponce performed by one of Mexico's finest guitarists, Antonio López.

Works by Robert de Visée and Francesco Corbetta, performed on baroque guitar.

Dionisio Aguado occupies a prominent position among the great guitarists of the nineteenth century, but the corpus of his works has only recently become the subject of careful study by specialists and musicologists. This is surprising, since guitarists have always had a great affection for Aguado, particularly because of his technical methods. However, these somehow managed to overshadow Aguado's concert pieces: a situation this record is intended to rectify.

Eric Slavin plays solo guitar from composers throughout the Americas. The pieces on this CD were originally written for nylon string guitar. Eric brings greater awareness to some of the most beautiful works ever written for guitar and gives recognition to composers who were left behind by the great players of our time. To listen to some of the tracks from beginning to end go to Slavin's homepage at www.ericslavin.com

The originality of the music of ERIK MARCHELIE resides in its capacity to happily link the guitar and other instruments in ensemble. His catalog is rich with numerous pieces for flute and guitar, violoncello and guitar, and in less-common associations such as with oboe, mandolin, piano, or string quartet.

Contemporary classical music for piccolo and piano and piccolo alone.

The Third Angle New Music ensemble proves once again that it is among America's foremost presenters of contemporary music in this varied and challenging program of chamber works by Bryan Johanson.

A musical tale for narrator, clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, and cello.

This unique recording features the guitar combined with harpsichord, violin, cello, clarinet, marimba, vibraphone, and percussion.

This album of solo guitar music exquisitely performed by award-winning Oregon composer Bryan Johanson presents music from a time span of nearly twenty years. This is the first recording of Johanson playing his own solo guitar music and is sure to become a collector's item.

Lyrical contemporary music for flute and guitar performed by one of the premiere flute and guitar duos in the world.

James Reid is a performer, recording artist, and scholar.

Radiorain's Second Release - A Politically Charged Tour of Alternative Rock

A tour de force recording of music for piano and double bass

Duo works from South America, by Norberto Pedreira, Egberto Gismonti, R. Baden Powell, Máximo Diego Pujol, Claudio Camisassa, Paulo Bellinati, Astor Piazzolla, Ariel Ramírez, Juan Gallino, and Alfonso Montes.

The second recording by Brigitte Repiton, dedicated to the works of Bernard Piris, who has received commissions from soloists, ensembles, and well-known festivals.

Spontaneity, expressiveness, imagination have always been distinctive features of the Italian music performing style. "Ever since I first heard Flavio play the guitar I've been a big fan."

-Chick Corea

Works by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Robert Schumann

Music for clarinet and piano by Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Alban Berg, and Johannes Brahms

A musical "memoir" by Caio Pagano.

Caio Pagano plays French piano music in this exclusive Soundset recording.

Described by Eugene Rousseau, as "a talented saxophonist," Jason T. Laczkoski is an emerging young voice in saxophone. An active performer, Jason has presented numerous solo recitals as well as made appearances at the North American Saxophone Alliance conferences and the Navy Saxophone Symposium. He is joined on this CD by Anna Draper, violin and Joshua Russell, piano.

Works by Piazzolla, Johanson, Houghton, Takemitsu, Nicoolella, and Dumond.

Works by Torroba, Martin, Ponce, Koshkin, and Britten.

Stylish and secure...as accomplished as you're likely to find.

Early music by Sanz, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Brescianello; folk (world) music from Latin America, Ireland, Italy and Bulgaria.

Les Productions d'OZ: 20th anniversary edition, featuring 20 composers and 20 compositions. 20 years of dreaming. Of daring. Of discovering music!

One of Canada's finest guitarists, versatile in classical, jazz, and early music.

Chamber Music of Sy Brandon featuring the winners of the 2007 Co-op Press Recording Competition and Cincinnati’s Premiere Chamber Ensemble, Conundrum.

Contemporary chamber music for flute and clarinet performed by Nicole McPherson, flute and Andrew Seigel, clarinet.

Works by Turina, Llobet, Ponce, de Fossa and Bach

A recording of 25 works dedicated to Marlene Lemay, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the publishing house Les Productions d'OZ.

A compendium of yuletide songs lovingly sung in Spanish and English

A tender and moving account of the life of Nobel Laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez and a little donkey named Platero, in southern Spain at the turn of the twentieth century. Set to music for guitar and narration by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Recorded in Spanish, with the printed text in Spanish and English.

'A tender and philosophical masterpiece' from Nobel laureate writer Juan Ramón Jiménez, set to music for guitar by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and now recorded for the first time in English.

Todd Hallawell, National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion (Winfield), plays his winning entries and much more!

1997 Winfield Fingerpicking Guitar Champion, Todd Hallawell in his second album of fingerstyle instrumentals.

Fingerstyle meets Flatpicking in this dazzling collection of instrumentals by two National Champion guitarists.

Concert works by film composers from "The Golden Era."

John Ebinger performs the Double Bass works of Frank Proto, 'a serious composer of substantial invention', with Roy Hakes on piano.

Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble music of Sy Brandon and Mark Scott, performed by the University of Arkansas tuba/euphonium ensemble, the International Euphonium Institute Ensemble, the Euphouria Quartet, and Dr. Benjamin Pierce.

Taken from recordings made in 1984 by Bulgarian pianist and Yugoslavian guitarist Dusan Bogdanovic, this exceptional recording was only released in 2008 through the efforts of Paul Gerrits.

Dusan Bogdanovic is a composer of masterful craft with a genuine clarity and purity of vision. His music is distinct to the extent that it would be nearly impossible to mistake it for another's, and he happens to play the guitar . . .
-Guitar Review

Dusan Bogdanovic proves once again to be one of the true originals of the guitar. His music shows a complete mastery of ethnic folk, jazz, and classical traditions.

24 Preludes and Fugues for Two Guitars (1962)

19th Century Masterworks for Two Guitars, by Coste, Mertz, Lhoyer, and Giuliani.

This recording attempts to repair an historical injustice. Rebay, although popular as choir director and composer of vocal music, was unable to make a decent living for his family from his guitar compositions. At the time of his death in Vienna, in 1953, Rebay was impoverished and forgotten.

Virtuoso works by Astor Piazzolla, Joaquin Rodrigo, Radames Gnattali, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

A solo piano album featuring works commemorating Franz Liszt's 200th birthday and premiering works by famed radio writer and personality, Paul Aurandt (Harvey) Jr.

The Coopers leave audiences sweetly charmed with stirring and darkly enchanting performances.
-Pepe Romero

Music for trombone and piano, performed by Michael Davidson and Ellen Bottorff.

New works for guitar and string ensembles by Bogdanovic, Brouwer, Gougeon, and Hétu, premiered by prize-winning Russian guitarist Dimitri Illarionov.

Michael Cedric Smith plays well-known favorites for the guitar with lesser-known works of equal appeal.

"As guitarists, they are about as good as you can get...they play like angels."

The Washington Post

"As guitarists, they are about as good as you can get...they play like angels."
-The Washington Post

Standard and contemporary music for clarinet and piano.

Our debut disc presents a selection of compositions for guitar duo by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Olga Amelkina-Vera, as well as an arrangement for guitar duo of Astor Piazzolla’s Lo Que Vendra. This all-modern program showcases a wide range of moods and compositional styles, as well as a variety of delicate instrumental colors only possible in guitar duo.

The premiere of an eclectic new work by Kieren MacMillan, and a thrilling performance of Korngold's gem, Suite Op. 23, dynamically performed by Jonathan Swartz and Mark Fewer (violins), Andrés Díaz (cello), and Wendy Chen (piano). The CD title, Groteske, from the suite's pivotal third movement, embodies the indescribable force of this music.

Two guitar greats, David Russell and Alvaro Pierri, performing with the Guitar Quebec Festival Orchestra and Ensemble, directed by the legendary Leo Brouwer.

Works by Sergio Assad, Denis Mortagne, David Mallamud, Benjamin Verdery, Nuccio D’Angelo, and Robert Beaser

Brilliant solo guitar Works by Niccolo Paganini, Mauro Giuliani, and Luigi Legnani, played by one of Italy's finest guitarists.

Bach's most imaginative and brilliant solo harpsichord work, loaded with invention, craft, wit, and emotion.

World premiere recording of the accompanied cello sonatas by early-American composer Rayner Taylor.

Works for Solo Guitar by Donald Crockett, premiered by Brian Head