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NEW: Sale prices for older CDs
Now that we have released over 200 discs, we have reorganised our back catalogue, so that most CDs from at01 to at100 are on sale at half price. This applies to all our earlier releases except those which have been re-pressed.
We have divided our ‘catalogue’ pages into two halves:
The older discs (at01 to at100) are listed here
And newer CDs (at101 to at210) are here
£33 + £4 postage worldwide
at178x4 John Cage ‘Number Pieces’
In its second pressing, the 4-CD box set of Apartment House playing Cage’s number pieces was top of The Wire’s year list for modern composition, and also #4 in The Guardian’s best classical releases for 2021.
“Apartment House’s performances are wonderfully committed. Every note is there, you sense, for a reason, revealing the strange beauty in these works. The whole set is a revelation”. (The Guardian)
Morton Feldman Piano box set
at144x5 Morton Feldman Piano
Our best-selling release remains the 5-CD box set of Morton Feldman’s music for solo piano, wonderfully played by Philip Thomas. Philip’s interpretations of Feldman’s exquisite music received an overwhelming critical response.
Youtube extracts: Triadic Memories Intermission 5 Extensions 3 Music for the Lipton film
£35 + £4 postage worldwide
CD Releases, April 2023
Four new releases for the spring, and they’re just great. First appearance on Another Timbre for Pauline Oliveros, plus new discs by three of our favourite composers: Magnus Granberg, Laurence Crane and Adrián Demoč.
Special Offers Buy all four new releases and get any other single CD for free.
Email us at info(at)anothertimbre(dot)com to let us know which extra disc you want.
The 4 new CDs + another CD for free
Plus there are some older releases by Magnus Granberg and Adrián Demoč at half price - see below.
at207 Pauline Oliveros ‘Sound Pieces’
Apartment House realise six works by the pioneering US experimentalist. Five are text scores for open instrumentation, and the last - and longest by some way - is ‘Peace/Tree’, an extraordinary trio for piano, violin and cello.
Brilliant performances of music that is much spoken about, but too rarely heard.
at208 Adrián Demoč ‘Neha’
Two orchestral works by the Spanish-based Slovak composer, whose previous discs have been received extremely well.
‘Neha’ (Tenderness) is a wonderfully restrained work for large orchestra, while ‘Popínavá hudba’ is a more intimate piece following a simple but ever-shifting melodic line.
at209 Magnus Granberg
‘Evening Star, Vesper Bell’
Apartment House again, and once more on brilliant form, working with Magnus Granberg for the first time to produce a gorgeously sensual performance of a 50-minute work written specially for them. Just great music.
at210 Laurence Crane
‘Natural World’
Haunting, prize-winning work for voice, piano and electronics, written for, and performed by, Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop. There’s a lovely review in The Guardian: “A three-part reflection on the fragility of the world around us that never becomes preachy....It is wonderfully direct and touchingly beautiful.” Unforgettable.
February Releases
Several of the February batch of releases have sold more quickly than we expected, and we are already running low on copies of three of these.
John Cage Number Pieces Box Set
Previous CDs by Magnus Granberg & Adrián Demoč
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at206 Eden Lonsdale ‘Clear and Hazy Moons’
Debut CD from an exciting and phenomenally talented young composer. If you don’t believe us, just listen to the extracts below.
Three pieces played by Apartment House, and one by Rothko Ensemble.
at205 Marco Baldini ‘Vesperi’
Seven compositions by another excellent young composer who you may not have heard of, but whose music is well worth your time. Marco Baldini writes slow, compelling music for low strings and marimba. Three of the pieces are based on works by sixteenth century composers, while the others are original compositions which share a beautiful and foreboding aesthetic.
at204 ‘Slow poem for Stiebler’
Biliana Voutchkova & Sarah Davachi
A duo for violin and reed organ extending a series of short gestures from Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s composition ‘Für Biliana’ into slowly expanding harmonic suspensions, highlighting the simple beauty and fragility of the intervals and chords.
CD copies sold out, but downloads available here
at203x2 Frank Denyer ‘Melodies’
An extraordinary double CD which arose from Frank Denyer’s ethno-musicological studies in the 1970’s, which forced him to go back to basics and ask himself ‘what is a melody?’ and ‘what is a note?’ Frank answered these questions by composing a series of 25 pieces starting from single-note melodies, through melodies with 2, 3 or 4 notes, ending with more complex pieces with 14- and 15-note melodies. A wonderful double CD, with a 24-page booklet containing an essay by Frank describing the project.
at169 Adrián Demoč ‘Hlaholika’
“The performance by Apartment House is well up to their usual impeccably high standards, each new sound fitting what has gone before....
Altogether this album further advances Demoč’s already burgeoning reputation.” John Eyles
at156 Magnus Granberg
‘Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost’
“Music can be very precious, with a few carefuly positioned notes leading to a strange sonic universe....the piece evolves slowly, quietly and intimately, with barely noticeable changes adding layers of nuances and perspectives.”
Steff Gijssels
at138 Magnus Granberg
‘Nun, es wird nicht weit mehr gehn’
“It has one foot in the romanticism of Schubert and Berlioz while treading firmly within a sketchy, unwritten tomorrow. This is risky post-classical with a smart modern twist.” Toneshift
at125 Magnus Granberg
‘Es schwindelt mir, es brennt mein Eingeweide’
“The piece borrows material from a song by Schubert, but transforms it into Granberg’s typically taut and focused soundworld.” Soundohm
at84 Magnus Granberg
‘Would fall from the sky, would wither and die’
“The lack of bravado or bombast is one of the appealing qualities of Granberg’s music, giving it a relaxed, tranquil mood...The album continues Granberg’s winning streak.” John Eyles
Sales to EU countries
Recent changes to customs regulations within the EU are being enforced with varying degrees of severity. Unfortunately this means that some CD orders from the UK to the EU are incurring extra charges. The majority of our packets are getting through ok without extra customs costs, but this isn’t guaranteed. If you live in the European Union and are worried about possible customs charges, you can avoid them by ordering our CDs from our European distributor Soundohm, who stock all our discs.
You can order our CDs from Soundohm’s website here
Recent Releases
at199 Evan Johnson - L’art de toucher
Five works from Evan Johnson’s unique, whispering soundworld. Three pieces in the ‘L’art de toucher le clavecin’ series, with ‘thaes ofereode’ for cello and voice, and ‘Plan and section of the same reservoir’ played by Trio Accanto. Youtube extract
at200 Jürg Frey ‘Borderland Melodies’
Three wonderful recent compositions by acclaimed Swiss composer Jürg Frey - ‘Movement, Ground, Fragility’, ‘L’état de simplicité’ and ‘Borderland Melodies’. All beautifully played by Apartment House
at201 Bryn Harrison ‘A Coiled Form’
Highly-acclaimed and extraordinary 50-minute piece for solo violin by Bryn Harrison, played with tireless virtuosity by Sarah Saviet
at202 Martin Iddon ‘Naiads’
Apartment House perform a set of five subte, enigmatic chamber pieces by Martin Iddon. “The music seems to hover above the listener as though on the edge of silence” Roz Milner
at194 Kory Reeder ‘Codex Vivere’
A beautiful 72-minute piece, specially written for Apartment House by the young and highly-regarded Texas-based composer. Just listen to the extract.
at195 John Lely ‘Meander Selection’
Recent chamber works by John Lely, whose music Apartment House have been playing for twenty years. Four string quartets, two solo piano works, and one miniature for electronics played by the composer.
at196 Allison Cameron ‘Somatic Refrain’
Another of Canada’s determinedly individual composers. Four varied and unusual chamber works, three played by Apartment House and one by the Allison Cameron Band.
at197 Tim Parkinson ‘an album’
Long overdue release of chamber music by experimental composer Tim Parkinson. One piece for solo violin, two duos for violin & piano, a quintet and a septet.
at198 John Cage ‘Hymkus’
Three relatively late works: ‘Two’, the first of the number pieces, for flute and piano
‘Thoreau Drawings’, from the 70’s for
ensemble and field recording
‘Hymnkus’, from the year before Cage
embarked on the number pieces.
at193 John Tilbury plays Terry Riley
Archive recordings from 30+ years ago of John Tilbury playing Terry Riley’s two ‘Keyboard Studies’ and ‘Dorian Reeds’. Essential.
at191 Johnny Chang & Keir GoGwilt
‘hope lies fallow’ contains six pieces developed by Johnny and Keir from music by Hildegard van Bingen and Orlando de Lassus. Stunningly beautiful.
Three violin duets, + three tracks for violins and the voice of Celeste Oram.
at190 Klaus Lang - ‘Tehran Dust’
Three chamber pieces by Austrian composer Klaus Lang, plus two arrangements by Klaus of early music by Johannes Ockeghem and Pierre de la Rue.
Beautifully played by Trio Amos & Klaus Lang
at192 Katelyn Clark & Isaiah Ceccarelli
Eight collaborative tracks for organ and percussion by the Canadian duo, who have worked together for over a decade, and here produce a unique music that could be described as quietly monumental.
at188 Magnus Granberg
‘How Lonely Sits the City?’
Another superlative, haunting work by Magnus Granberg and his group Skogen. Recorded during the Covid pandemic, its mood of strange, fragile melancholy fittingly reflects that disconcerting year.