Furious Artisans

14/04/2023

https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/jacob-greenberg-living-language/

Living Language is pianist Jacob Greenberg’s consideration of musical style and evolving cultural legacy, across a broad range of pieces. This disc explores how composers build on their history with a highly personal creative vocabulary, bringing their work forward into the present; these artists give thoughtful tribute while also seeking renewal.

Living Language is pianist Jacob Greenberg’s consideration of musical style and evolving cultural legacy, across a broad range of pieces. This disc explores how composers build on their history with a highly personal creative vocabulary, bringing their work forward into the present.

16/01/2023

https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/mari-kawamura-ma-space-between/

Released back in November, beautiful album – please check it out!

Ma (間) is an ancient Japanese concept concerning space and time, which literally means “interval” or “gap” in Japanese. It is a beautiful and philosophically…

22/06/2022

Congrats

In its debut recording, the group showcases new scores highlighting the unusual sound of its two-piano, two-percussionist configuration.

20/06/2022

https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/icarus-quartet-big-things/

17/06/2022

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Things-Lansky-Icarus-Quartet/dp/B09ZRD2X5R/

13/05/2022

Single release, 5/6

https://open.spotify.com/track/5z7bGPrjwx6wSRptmLBIgo?si=162d967fba054b88

13/05/2022

Releasing 6/17/22

13/05/2022

https://icarusquartet.org/shop/big-things-album-pre-order

Our debut album, featuring Michael Laurello’s Big Things , Brad Lubman’s Tangents , and Paul Lansky’s Textures drops June 17, 2022 on Furious Artisans records - order ahead for a pre-sale discount and to get a copy at your door the moment it comes out!

13/05/2022

22/03/2022

Released on Friday of last week:
https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/david-loeb-between-sea-and-sky/

My formal studies (1959-1964) coincided with the midpoint of that thankfully brief time when twelve-tone and serial techniques seemed to dominate the world of composition. Authoritative persons and colleagues frequently admonished the few of us who stubbornly rejected the true faith, predicting marg...

28/08/2020

Beauty Crying Forth: Flute Music by Women Across Time, by Sarah Frisof

Out now from Sarah Frisof, flutist — Beauty Crying Forth: Flute Music by Women Across Time

Flutist Sarah Frisof and pianist Daniel Pesca present repertoire spanning one and half centuries for flute by female composers. Including music by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Kaija Saariaho, Tania León, Shulamit Ran, and Amy Williams, Frisof and Pesca, with guest cellist Hannah Collins, chart two parallel lineages: the evolution of flute repertoire from the Romantic era to the current day, and the overlooked role of female composers in shaping that repertoire

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time/1527595690

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time-daniel-pesca/35186098?ean=0600116682628

Naxos Direct: https://naxosdirect.com/items/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time-542907

21 track album

28/08/2020

Tania León: Alma (Sarah Frisof, flute; Daniel Pesca, piano)

From tomorrow's release, here is Sarah Frisof and Daniel Pesca performing Tania León's Alma for flute and piano

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time

Tania León: Alma Sarah Frisof, flute; Daniel Pesca, piano From FACD6826 Beauty Crying Forth: Flute Music by Women Across Time Coming out August 28th, links to pre-order/buy below! Bandcamp: newfocus

26/08/2020

Beauty Crying Forth: Flute Music by Women Across Time, by Sarah Frisof

Coming out this Friday — Sarah Frisof, flutist: Beauty Crying Forth — Flute Music by Women Across Time

On Beauty Crying Forth, flutist Sarah Frisof and pianist Daniel Pesca present repertoire spanning one and half centuries for flute by female composers. Including music by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Kaija Saariaho, Tania León, Shulamit Ran, and Amy Williams, Frisof and Pesca, with guest cellist Hannah Collins, chart two parallel lineages: the evolution of flute repertoire from the Romantic era to the current day, and the overlooked role of female composers in shaping that repertoire

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time/1527595690

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time-daniel-pesca/35186098?ean=0600116682628

Naxos Direct: https://naxosdirect.com/items/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time-542907

21 track album

26/07/2020

Contemporary Classics June 16, 2020 Composer Conversation with Christopher Cerrone and Eli Spindel – WRUU Savannah Soundings

Great interview by David Lake with Chris Cerrone and Eli Spindel about The String Orchestra of Brooklyn's "Afterimage" on WRUU - 107.5 FM Savannah

https://www.wruu.org/broadcasts/17724/?cn-reloaded=1

14/07/2020

Reinaldo Moya: Hearing It Getting Dark

Coming out this Friday, composer Reinaldo Moya's debut release of chamber works, "Hearing it Get Dark" featuring performances from Latitude 49, Francesca Anderegg, and Attacca Quartet

Hearing It Getting Dark is the debut album of original music by composer Reinaldo Moya. The album features 4 chamber works, written between 2012-2017: a time which represented Moya’s shift from being a student to developing his own fully realized individual style as a composer.

13/07/2020

"This is not repertoire by which we normally judge pianists (say: Chopin, Beethoven, Schumann), but Jacob Greenberg acquits himself nobly, by both technique and sensibility, in these 18th- and 20th-century compositions."

James North covers Jacob Greenberg's "Neo-Classic" for Fanfare

30/06/2020

Contemporary re-invention: the String Orchestra of Brooklyn's debut disc features two works which re-invent fragments of classics

"This disc is an impressive achievement, and it is a shame that we have had to wait so long for the disc. The performances by the The String Orchestra of Brooklyn are technically assured, and the players bring an intensity and a fine sense of style to these two contemporary re-inventions of classical music."

Planet Hugill on "Afterimage" featuring music by Christopher Cerrone and Jacob Cooper

Contemporary re-invention - CD review: afterimage Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper; String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Eli Spindel; Furious Artisans

28/05/2020

A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time

"this exhaustingly poignant work now seems to capture the Covid-specific grief of the bereaved, bereft even of the rituals of mourning. In a 28-minute long dirge, Mr. Cooper takes the opening bars of a gorgeous 18th-century lamentation full of aching harmonic suspensions and renders it in extreme slow motion so that its pulse becomes undetectable."

Jacob Cooper's "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" from The String Orchestra of Brooklyn's "Afterimage release" included in a covid era playlist for the The New York Times Music section by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

Here are seven works that speak to the coronavirus time warp, in which days creep along but months vanish in a flash.

21/05/2020

"all three works here have a great deal to offer, with the
Slavický Partita particularly impressive. Kolářová plays with a remarkably strong, rich tone, terrific rhythmic drive and technical brilliance."

Terry Robbins reviews Barbora Baru's "Imp and Impulse" in The WholeNote including the title work written for her by Pascal Le Boeuf and music by Slavicky and Francaix

https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/listening-room-c/30096-imp-in-impulse-barbora-kolarova

02/04/2020

Pascal Le Boeuf and Barbora Kolářová: Imp in Impulse — Classical Post

Great in-depth interview in Classical Post with Pascal Le Boeuf and Barbora Kolářová, Violinist on their collaboration on Barbora's recent release "Imp in Impulse."

https://classicalpost.com/read/2020/3/19/pascal-le-boeuf-and-barbora-kolov-imp-in-impulse?fbclid=IwAR3k78YuvfZBv5rR-M9IvD6FVCSTi8Az-yLk-Ewbr-5MM6Rm5G2W1zSJ6-k

The word “Caprice” has a double meaning. Pascal Le Boeuf ’s Imp in Impulse : caprice for solo violinist Barbora Kolářová does too.

05/03/2020

Pascal Le Boeuf: Imp in Impulse: I. Shoes (Barbora Kolářová, violin)

From tomorrow's release by Barbora Kolářová, Violinist, this is Pascal Le Boeuf's Imp in Impulse: I. Shoes

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/barbora-kola-r-ova-imp-in-impulse

Pascal Le Boeuf: Imp in Impulse: I. Shoes Barbora Kolářová, violin From FACD6822 Barbora Kolářová: Imp in Impulse Coming out on 3.6.20, links to pre-order/buy below! Bandcamp: newfocusrecordin

02/03/2020

Barbora Kolářová: Imp in Impulse, by Barbora Kolářová

Coming out this Friday — Barbora Kolářová, Violinist: Imp in Impulse

Virtuoso Czech violinist Barbora Kolářová releases her debut recording of solo violin works, including the premiere recording of Pascal Le Boeuf's title track, alongside rarely heard works by Jean Francaix and Moravian composer Klement Slavický

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/imp-in-impulse/1499703960

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083X5NQ9J

Naxos: https://naxosdirect.com/items/imp-in-impulse-530921

19 track album

26/02/2020

Editor's Corner - February 2020 | The WholeNote

Thanks to David Olds at The WholeNote for including this write up of The String Orchestra of Brooklyn's debut album, afterimage, in his column Editor's Corner

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-afterimage

26/02/2020

Furious Artisans's cover photo

25/02/2020

NEW MUSIC TUESDAY | Composer Pascal Le Boeuf – ‘Imp In Impulse’ for Solo Violin [WORLD PREMIERE]

From Barbora Kolářová, Violinist's new album, Imp in Impulse, coming out on March 6th, here is the video debut of title track by Pascal Le Boeuf from The Violin Channel

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/barbora-kola-r-ova-imp-in-impulse

Czech violinist Barbora Kolarova performing the world premiere performance of French composer Pascal Le Boeuf‘s ‘Imp In Impulse’ for Solo Violin.

08/02/2020

textura

"...the material as presented is ravishing and its realization by the orchestra and its guests breathtaking, and a more rewarding debut release by an ensemble would be hard to imagine."

From textura's glowing review of The String Orchestra of Brooklyn's new album, afterimage

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-afterimage

The String Orchestra of Brooklyn (SOB) and its conductor Eli Spindel couldn't have chosen a better programme for its debut album, recorded in 2016 but only now seeing release. Rather than present interpretations of unrelated early and contemporary works, the company selected pieces that connect bril...

06/02/2020

textura

"Simply put, Greenberg's the kind of pianist whose playing's gripping no matter the material performed."

From textura's review of Jacob Greenberg's album, Neo/Classic.

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jacob-greenberg-neo-classic

On Hanging Gardens, the wonderful double-CD set issued by Jacob Greenberg in 2018, the pianist combined works by the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg) and Debussy to striking effect, the release's impact bolstered by the presence of soprano Tony Arnold on Schoenberg's Das Buch de...

04/02/2020

NPR Music's Top 10 Albums Of January

Thanks to Tom Huizenga at NPR Music for including The String Orchestra of Brooklyn's new album, afterimage, on their list of the Top Ten Albums of January!

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-afterimage

One month into 2020 and it already feels like we've got strong contenders for albums of the year.

21/01/2020

Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Afterimage, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Eli Spindel

"It is a rather extraordinary program in a rather extraordinary performance. Kudos!"

From Grego Applegate Edwards' review in Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review for The String Orchestra of Brooklyn's new album, "afterimage", featuring works by Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Niccolò Paganini and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-afterimage

A recurring element in the most Modern of New Music channels I have been calling "the Old in the New," referring to composers of today re-...

17/01/2020

String Orchestra of Brooklyn: afterimage, by String Orchestra of Brooklyn

Out today! The String Orchestra of Brooklyn: afterimage

Music by Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Niccolò Paganini and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; performed by the SOB conducted by Eli Spindel, Argus Quartet, vocalists Mellissa Hughes and Kate Maroney, Mezzo-Soprano, and violinist Rachel Lee Priday

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/afterimage/1493424472

Our website: https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-afterimage/

Amazon - Physical: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081WRDXPJ/

Amazon - Digital: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083F67PZB/

Naxos Direct: https://naxosdirect.com/items/afterimage-524675

4 track album

13/01/2020

String Orchestra of Brooklyn: afterimage, by String Orchestra of Brooklyn

Coming out this Friday — The String Orchestra of Brooklyn: afterimage

The String Orchestra of Brooklyn releases "afterimage," an album featuring two works written for the ensemble by Christopher Cerrone and Jacob Cooper that respond to older works by Paganini and Pergolesi respectively. Featuring the Argus Quartet vocal soloists Mellissa Hughes and Kate Maroney, Mezzo-Soprano, and violinist Rachel Lee Priday, "afterimage" refracts older repertoire through a modern lens using a familiar and time honored format, the string orchestra

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/afterimage/1493424472

Amazon - Physical: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081WRDXPJ/

Amazon - Digital: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083F67PZB/

Naxos Direct: https://naxosdirect.com/items/afterimage-524675

4 track album

06/12/2019

William Kentner Anderson: Der Weg Ins Freie

Today we announce the digital release of William Kentner Anderson's new album, Der Weg Ins Freie, featuring performances by Oren Fader, Jessica Bowers, Elizabeth Farnum, Isaac Alderson, David Fulmer, Cygnus Ensemble and more.

Pristine and artful audio engineering by Jeremy Tressler,

Anderson breaks barriers-asking his guitarists to sing backup vocals, incorporating Tibetan overtone singing in his setting of Djuna Barnes' "Paradise", and integrating an uillean piper into the Cygnus Ensemble for "The Job of Journeywork"

https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/william-kentner-anderson-der-weg-ins-freie/

Physical release coming on January 3rd, 2020, featuring a stunning 32 page booklet with metallic gold ink, and cool images from Marie, Queen of Roumania's book "The Stealers of Light", illustrations by Edmund Dulac...

Amazon Digital:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081JCDJ9F/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp

Amazon preorder for the CD is here:
https://www.amazon.com/Weg-Freie-William-Kentner-Anderson/dp/B081JSJQKY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Anderson+Der+Weg&qid=1575651632&sr=8-1

Guitarist/composer William Kentner Anderson, "the alert guitarist" (Paul Griffiths, NY Times), has been a champion of new American music for 35 years. He founded…

20/11/2019

SumiTones

Listen to Jacob Greenberg's elegant performance of "SumiTones" off his new album "Neo/Classic.", a new work written for him by longtime colleague in the International Contemporary Ensemble, Phyllis Chen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfW59xmnLDI

Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America SumiTones · Jacob Greenberg Neo/Classic. ℗ 2019 Furious Artisans Released on: 2019-11-15 Artist: Jacob Greenberg Comp...

15/11/2019

Jacob Greenberg: Neo/Classic., by Jacob Greenberg

Out today! Jacob Greenberg's Neo/Classic.

Featuring works for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, Joseph Haydn, Elliott Carter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Igor Stravinsky and Phyllis Chen

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/neo-classic/1487527189

Amazon - Digital: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081HY3LPQ/

ArkivMusic: https://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=2293370

Naxos Direct: https://naxosdirect.com/items/mirrored-spaces-514062

14 track album

15/11/2019

Igor Stravinsky: Serenade in A: III. Rondoletto (Jacob Greenberg, piano)

From tomorrow's release, this is Jacob Greenberg performing Igor Stravinsky's Serenade in A: III. Rondoletto, from Neo/Classic.

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jacob-greenberg-neo-classic

Igor Stravinsky: Serenade in A: III. Rondoletto Jacob Greenberg, piano From FACD6820 Jacob Greenberg: Neo/Classic. on our Furious Artisans imprint Links below to pre-order/buy! Bandcamp: newfocusrec

13/11/2019

Jacob Greenberg: Neo/Classic., by Jacob Greenberg

Coming out this Friday is pianist Jacob Greenberg's new album, Neo/Classic.

Featuring works for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, Joseph Haydn, Elliott Carter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Igor Stravinsky, and Phyllis Chen

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/neo-classic/1487527189

Naxos Direct: https://naxosdirect.com/items/mirrored-spaces-514062

ArkivMusic: https://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=2293370

14 track album

29/08/2019

Stay tuned for some exciting new releases this fall, including Jacob Greenberg's Neo/Classical. More info coming soon.