Miranda Cuckson

Escher String Quartet, Paulina Swierczek, Miranda Cuckson & Jacob Greenberg - Anthony Cheung: All Roads (2022)

Escher String Quartet, Paulina Swierczek, Miranda Cuckson & Jacob Greenberg - Anthony Cheung: All Roads (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 270 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:59
Classical | Label: New Focus Recordings

Composer Anthony Cheung releases All Roads, a follow up to FCR215 Cycles and Arrows. Featuring performances by the Escher Quartet, violinist Miranda Cuckson, soprano Paulina Swierczek, and pianists Jacob Greenberg, Gilles Vonsattel, and Cheung himself, All Roads encapsulates Cheung's penchant for drawing on broad sources of inspiration and filtering them through an incisive and discriminating compositional process to produce substantial, structurally airtight works.
Escher String Quartet, Paulina Swierczek, Miranda Cuckson & Jacob Greenberg - Anthony Cheung: All Roads (2022) [24/96]

Escher String Quartet, Paulina Swierczek, Miranda Cuckson & Jacob Greenberg - Anthony Cheung: All Roads (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 69:59 minutes | 1,15 GB
Classical | Label: New Focus Recordings, Official Digital Download

Composer Anthony Cheung releases All Roads, a follow up to FCR215 Cycles and Arrows. Featuring performances by the Escher Quartet, violinist Miranda Cuckson, soprano Paulina Swierczek, and pianists Jacob Greenberg, Gilles Vonsattel, and Cheung himself, All Roads encapsulates Cheung's penchant for drawing on broad sources of inspiration and filtering them through an incisive and discriminating compositional process to produce substantial, structurally airtight works.
Ah Young Hong, Gleb Kanasevich, Jamie Hersch & Miranda Cuckson - A Breath Upwards (2018)

Ah Young Hong, Gleb Kanasevich, Jamie Hersch & Miranda Cuckson - A Breath Upwards (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 211 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 117 Mb | 00:50:56
Classical, Avant-Garde, Vocal | Label: Innova Recordings

Music, song, and poetry have long enjoyed a stimulating relationship; coming together for expressive ends and sometimes colliding in dramatic showdowns. None more so than in these vocal works by two composers who often explore extremes, Milton Babbitt and Michael Hersch. Babbitt’s ‘Philomel’ (1964) was an audacious stab at recasting conventions of song (such as voice with accompaniment) by redistributing the text between live voice, recorded voice, and analog synthesizer. The fragmentary words and syllables by poet John Hollander retell Ovid’s story of the rape and subsequent transformation of Philomel into a nightingale; aptly paralleled by the metamorphosis of the human and artificial sonorities.

Miranda Cuckson - Világ (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at March 3, 2023
Miranda Cuckson - Világ (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Miranda Cuckson - Világ (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 96:09 minutes | 1,66 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

I’m very happy to share my new double-album Világ featuring the Sonata for solo violin by Béla Bartók along with compositions written for me by Aida Shirazi and Stewart Goodyear and works by Manfred Stahnke and Franco Donatoni.

Miranda Cuckson - Világ (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 22, 2023
Miranda Cuckson - Világ (2023)

Miranda Cuckson - Világ (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:36:11 | 383 / 220 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Urlicht

American violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson has established a reputation for her work in the field of new music, especially for her ability to learn difficult pieces quickly and for championing the music of contemporary composers. She was born in Sydney, Australia, but was trained at the Juilliard School from the age of nine until she earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Cuckson has devoted herself to performing chamber works and solo compositions, and she has given recitals in a variety of venues, including universities, schools, art galleries, and novel concert spaces.
Munich Radio Orchestra -  Varèse, Lutosławski, Ligeti & Baldini: Orchestral Works (Live) (2021) [Of Digital Download 24/48]

Munich Radio Orchestra, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, M. Cuckson, M. Haft & Christian Baldini - Varèse, Lutosławski, Ligeti & Baldini: Orchestral Works (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 77:41 minutes | 772 MB
Classical | Label: Centaur Records, Official Digital Download

This is an album featuring path-breaking works for orchestra and for violin and orchestra. Lutoslawski, Verese, and Ligeti certainly need no introduction. Conductor Christian Baldini is also a first-rate composer. Two superb violinists, Miranda Cuckson and Maximilian Haft are featured performers.
Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Dianne Berkun Menaker - Black Mountain Songs (2017)

Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Dianne Berkun Menaker - Black Mountain Songs (2017)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:17:16 | 180 Mb
Contemporary Era, Chorus, Classical | Label: New Amsterdam Records

Back in 2014, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus performed a stage work as part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival, and they’ve recorded the piece in a studio for their debut album Black Mountain Songs. The project was co-curated by the National’s Bryce Dessner and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry, and the first track that’s being shared from it is its title track, which was composed by Dessner. The rest of the album features contributions from Parry, Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly, and Tim Hecker.
Munich Radio Orchestra -  Varèse, Lutosławski, Ligeti & Baldini: Orchestral Works (Live) (2021)

Munich Radio Orchestra, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, M. Cuckson, M. Haft & Christian Baldini - Varèse, Lutosławski, Ligeti & Baldini: Orchestral Works (Live) (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 336 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | 01:17:41
Classical | Label: Centaur Records

This is an album featuring path-breaking works for orchestra and for violin and orchestra. Lutoslawski, Verese, and Ligeti certainly need no introduction. Conductor Christian Baldini is also a first-rate composer. Two superb violinists, Miranda Cuckson and Maximilian Haft are featured performers. "Christian Baldini brings symphonic revival" commented the Buenos Aires Herald on Baldini's recent concerts at the Teatro Argentino featuring Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Varèse's Amériques. Based in California, Baldini conducts regularly several international orchestras including the Munich Radio Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra (of Argentina and the US), Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto (Portugal), San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Ensemble Dal Niente. Baldini recently made his debut conducting Verdi's Aida in London for English National Opera, and has conducted new productions at the Teatro Coln in Buenos Aires, where he received the National Critics Association Award for best operatic performance.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Michael Hersch: Carrion-Miles to Purgatory (2019)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Michael Hersch: Carrion-Miles to Purgatory (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 232 MB | Tracks: 15 | 47:39 min
Style: Classical | Label: New Focus Recordings

This collection of recent duos by composer Michael Hersch gives the listener a chance to hear the intense expressive contrasts so characteristic of his music in a profoundly intimate context. From jarring, closely spaced intervals, to delicate, ethereal harmonics, to bracingly virtuosic passagework, Hersch’s voice projects strongly throughout this recording featuring three of his most frequent performer collaborators: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Miranda Cuckson, and Jay Campbell, as well as the composer himself on the piano.

Vijay Iyer - Mutations (2014) {ECM 2372}  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 20, 2019
Vijay Iyer - Mutations (2014) {ECM 2372}

Vijay Iyer - Mutations (2014) {ECM 2372}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 258MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 138MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz

Mutations is not only Vijay Iyer's debut album for ECM, but also the first recording he's issued since winning a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in the fall of 2013. As a recording, it is certainly among his most provocative. There are no traces of his Hindustani or Carnatic jazz explorations, his athletic post-bop or modal works, or even his explosive readings of modern pop. This is a showcase for Iyer the composer. Even the set opener, a solo piano reading of "Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea," which appeared on Memorophilia–his 1995 debut–showcases its harmonic subtleties and formal construction over improvisation – though it's certainly there. The album's title is actually a ten-part suite for piano, string quartet, and electronics originally composed and premiered in 2005; it has been evolving ever since.