Another Timbre

The first piece composer Catherine Lamb has written specifically for acoustic guitar was commissioned by Chilean guitarist Christián Alvear. Extending concepts from an installation piece titled Secondary Rainbow with Bryan Eubanks, Lamb employs electronics over an infinite cycle of four "environmental chords" which overlap and resonate with one another.

The Morton Feldman Piano box set is the most extensive survey of Feldman’ s piano music to date. Released exactly 20 years after John Tilbury’ s long unavailable 4-CD set, the new box includes several pieces which weren’ t included there, and has three works which have never been released on disc before. Philip Thomas has been playing Feldman’ s music for 25 years and is one of the foremost interpreters of his work with an extraordinary gentle touch. He and John Tilbury combined forces to produce the highly acclaimed Two Pianos double CD, which featured Feldman’ s music for multiple pianos.

Apartment House give new life to Julius Eastman’ s irrepressible ensemble piece from 1974. Unbounded energy and clarity of sound. Unmissable.

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a Brazilian-born composer now living in Amsterdam. He composes by transposing visual works of art into sound. “Music coming from structures, labyrinths, alphabets, codes, patterns, architecture, paintings, drawings, sculptures…” The pieces on the CD are wonderfully realised by Apartment House, who have championed his music in recent years. “What drew me in was the sheer eloquence and beauty of the works I heard, before having seen the scores, which are themselves works of art.” (Anton Lukoszevieze, Apartment House)

A double CD of music for violin + piano and vibraphone, composed and played by two young American composers and members of the ensemble Ordinary Affects, who have recorded music by the Jürg Frey, Magnus Granberg, Nomi Epstein, Michael Pisaro, Eva Maria Houben and others. The second disc contains an exquisite new work by Morgan Evans-Weiler, while the first presents for the first time the beautiful music of JPA Falzone, who acknowledges a connection with Feldman. “Feldman’s approach to writing asymmetrical patterns has long fascinated me. His work represents a kind of considered haphazardness in defiance of formalised systems.” (JPA Falzone)

Apartment House play a series of works by Ryoko Akama, based on research she conducted at the Kryzstof Kieslowski archive in Poland.