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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
John Cage Number Pieces Box Set
Other Recent Releases
at199 Evan Johnson - L’art de toucher
5 works from Evan Johnson’s unique, whispering soundworld. 3 pieces in the ‘L’art de toucher le clavecin’ series, with ‘thaes ofereode’ for cello and voice, and a trio ‘Plan and section of the same reservoir’.
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.
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.
New Releases November /December 2023
Just two new CDs to complete a very busy year, and both from very individiual composers who are old favourites of the label: Frank Denyer and Martin Arnold.
Fantastic, unusual music - for details, see below.
Winter Offer
We also have a winter special offer: buy both new releases, and get any other two single CDs (or a double CD) for the price of one.
Email info(at)anothertimbre(dot)com & let us know which extra two discs you want
Winter offer: at220 & at221 + any 2 other CDs for £30
Other Recent CD Releases
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.
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.
at208 Adrián Demoč ‘Neha’
Extremely well-received CD with two orchestral works by the Spanish-based Slovak composer.
‘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.
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.
at201 Bryn Harrison ‘A Coiled Form’
Meserising piece for solo violin, beautifully played by Sarah Saviet. Music which circles and never rests, changing gradually, stretching out, and then looping back.
CD copies sold out, but downloads here
at214 Anthony Pateras
‘A Dread of Voids’ and
‘’Patterned Language’
Two very fine recent compositions for different quintets by the Australian composer.
at212x2 Morton Feldman
‘Violin and String Quartet’
Sublime two-hour chamber work, beautifully played by Apartment House. Double CD with artworks by Anton Lukoszevieze.
at211 Sarah-Jane Summers
‘Echo Stane’
Nine solo pieces for Hardanger fiddle, composed and wonderfully performed by the Norway-based Scottish musician.
at203x2 Frank Denyer ‘Melodies’
In the 1970’s Frank Denyer’s ethno-musicological studies forced him to go back to basics and ask ‘what is a melody?’ and ‘what is a note?’ He answered these questions by composing 25 pieces, starting from single-note melodies, through 2, 3 or 4 note melodies, and ending with pieces with 14- and 15-notes.
With a 24-page booklet containing an essay by Frank about the project.
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 here
at205 Marco Baldini ‘Vesperi’
Seven compositions by Italian composer Marco Baldini; 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.
CD copies sold out, but downloads here
at206 Eden Lonsdale
‘Clear and Hazy Moons’
Debut CD from a phenomenally talented young composer Three pieces played by Apartment House, and one by Rothko Ensemble.
at198 John Cage ‘Hymkus’
3 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.
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.
Jürg Frey & Apartment House concert November 30th
Thursday 30th November
Jürg Frey ‘String Trio’
+ Carolyn Chen
Apartment House
Music We’d Like To Hear
Following Apartment House’s astonishing performance of Feldman’s ‘Violin and String Quartet’ at the Music We’d Like To Hear concert series, on Thursday 30th November they’ll be playing Jürg Frey’s ‘String Trio’ and ‘Toucher l’air’, along with Carolyn Chen’s ‘In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking’. Not to be missed.
at220 Frank Denyer ‘Screens’
Five typically beguiling works from the evergreen Frank Denyer, with composition dates stretching from 1973 and 2021. Using a bewildering array of conventional and unconventional instruments, all beautifully played by Octandre Ensemble.
The CD comes with a 10-page booklet about Denyer’s music by Christian Mason.
“Frank Denyer’s music is full of questions, but never pretends to easy answers....”
at221 Martin Arnold ‘Flax’
A few months before he became unwell, Philip Thomas commissioned his favourite composer, Canadian Martin Arnold, to write a CD-length work for piano. ‘Flax’ is the result. Sadly, Philip is unable to play it, but is delighted that Kerry Yong has taken the project on, and Kerry will premiere the work at this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The CD release coincides with the premiere at the festival. A magnificent piece of music: mysterious, restrained and unique.
at213 Michiko Ogawa & Lucy Railton
‘fragments of reincarnation’
Michiko Ogawa and Lucy Railton’s disc sold out much more quickly than expected, but can now be ordered again as a re-pressing is underway.
A single movement work for shō, organ and cello, it has been extremely well-received.
And two CDs that had sold out are available again.....
at181 Georgia Rodgers ‘September’
Apartment House play works by the young Dublin-based composer. This CD sold out quickly, but Georgia has kindly given us some of her copies, so it is available again for a short period.
Excellent thoughtful music, well worth catching up with if you missed it first time around.
at218 Translucent Harmonies
The excellent violin / viola duo andPlay play two very different approaches to Just Intonation:
Catherine Lamb - ‘Prisma Interius VIII’ (Melodic Duo)
& Kristofer Svensson - ‘Vid stenmuren blir tanken blomma’
Performed by Explore Ensemble, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble & Lotte Betts-Dean
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at217 Jürg Frey ‘String Trio’
Apartment House with the first recording of Jürg Frey’s astonishingly beautiful String Trio.
at216 Seamus Cater
‘A History of Musical Pitch’
Three pieces by Amsterdam-based composer Seamus Cater, a subtle and loving ‘re-sounding’ of the work of the Victorian polymath Alexander J. Ellis, inventor of the musical cent and tireless measurer of the precise pitches of musical instruments.
at215 Catherine Lamb ‘parallaxis forma’
3 works by the Berlin-based US composer:
‘parallaxis forma’ for voice and ensemble
‘pulse/shade’ version for multi-tracked voice
‘color residua’ for voices and ensemble
Performed by Explore Ensemble, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble & Lotte Betts-Dean
Youtube extract (parallaxis forma)