Recordings of Music by Musik Fabrik Composers, Artists and Friends...

Eurasia Duo Musaikón (Davide Compostella (clarinet) and Alessandro Balsimini (guitar)). (2008 rel; CD recording)

Phoenix Classics released the CD "Eurasia" in August 2008 It contains a refreshingly new selection of music for clarinet and classical guitar beautifully and sensitively performed by the Duo Musaikón (Davide Compostella (clarinet) and Alessandro Balsimini (guitar))

Contains : "Petticoat Lane" by David W. Solomons and "Tenderness" by Jan Freidlin

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Cooman: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, etc. (2007 rel; CD recording)

Contains Symphony No. 2, "Litanies of Love and Rain" (2004) for orchestra, Partita (2003) for solo baroque flute, Piano Concerto (2005) for solo piano and strings, Vision (2005) for violin and organ, Symphony No. 3, "Ave Maris Stella" (2005) for chamber orchestra, Songlines, Sun Dreaming (2001) for orchestra, and Sonata for Violin and Organ (2004)

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, conductor
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Kirk Trevor, conductor
Nora Skuta, piano; Stephen Schultz, baroque flute
Rachel Gough, violin; Rupert Gough, organ

Naxos Records (Catalogue #8.559329)

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Cooman: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, etc. (2007 rel; CD recording)

Contains Symphony No. 2, "Litanies of Love and Rain" (2004) for orchestra, Partita (2003) for solo baroque flute, Piano Concerto (2005) for solo piano and strings, Vision (2005) for violin and organ, Symphony No. 3, "Ave Maris Stella" (2005) for chamber orchestra, Songlines, Sun Dreaming (2001) for orchestra, and Sonata for Violin and Organ (2004)

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, conductor
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Kirk Trevor, conductor
Nora Skuta, piano; Stephen Schultz, baroque flute
Rachel Gough, violin; Rupert Gough, organ

Naxos Records (Catalogue #8.559329)

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Summer Songs: Chamber Music of Carson Cooman (2008 rel; CD recording)

Contains Summer Song (2003) for cello, Fantasia on American Hymns (1999-2000) for alto saxophone and piano, Lyric Pieces (2004) for clarinet and piano, Canalscape: Soliloquy for String Quartet (2003), Tombeau-Aria (2003) for string quartet, and Dawn Rituals (2005) for flute quartet

Olga Kryvtsova, cello; Paul Wehage, alto saxophone; Moyuru Maeda, piano; Angela Occhionero, clarinet; Donna Amato, piano Ukrainian Quartet; LAGO Flute Quartet Zimbel Records (Catalogue #ZR117) Cover painting: Sunset at Cisco Beach by Loretta Yoder

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Small Bear, Large Telescope: Music of Carson Cooman (2006 rel; CD recording)

Contains Pittsburgh Concerto (2005) for orchestra, Horn Trio (2004) for violin, horn, and piano, Concerto for Bass Trombone and Six Players (2006), and Shining Space: Quintet for Horn and Strings (2006)

Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Efraín Amaya, conductor
Petro Hrushovenko and Konstantin Sokol, horn; Ostap Shutko, violin; Natalia Tolmacheva, piano; Ukrainian Quartet
James Siders, bass trombone; Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble, Walter Morales, conductor

Zimbel Records (Catalogue #ZR108)
Webster, New York

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Masterworks of the New Era, Vol. 5. 2-CD set; Kiev Philharmonic directed by Robert Ian Winstin.

Contains Carson Cooman's The Sky About to Open for orchestra. Preview/Ecoutez :

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Composition Féminine : Works by Women composers for the Classical Guitar performed by Chris Bilobram

This Recording features the World Première recording of the Tailleferre Concerto for Two Guitar and orchestra, as well as works by Maria Luisa Anido, Emilia Giuliani-Guglielmi, Ida Presti, Elisabeth R. Austin and Camilla de Rossi 16€00 from Querstand

A CD of the Month at Music-web International - "The playing is perfect; I cannot fault anything about the sheer musicality of everything presented here."

Threads - The Music of Carson Cooman

Carson P. Cooman's first professionally released Cd, with works performed by the Slovak Radio Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and others. $13.99 from Amazon.com

Jay Easton- So-Low

The one of the pioneers of the Lowest instruments of the Saxophone family plays works for the Baritone, Bass, Contrabass and....Subcontrabass Saxophones. Includes the World première recording of Polpis Dreaming for Contrabass Saxophone and Piano by Carson Cooman, as well as works by Walter Hartley, Werner Schulze, Jean-Baptiste Singelée, Ivan Shekov, R. Vaughan Williams, Carl Anton Wirth and Adolf Hoffman

"This is not only a great demonstration of the low end of the sax family but is also great music. Highly recommended!" -Grant Green, founder of www.contrabass.com

"Without a doubt, this disc is completely fascinating." -R.M. Campbell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer music critic

$16.00 US ($19.00 outside US) from www.jayeaston.com

Susan Nigro, Contrabassoon and Mark Lindeblad, Piano- New Tunes for the Big Bassoon

This recording from "The Paganini of the Contrebassoon" (Fanfare) includes the World première recording of Barton Cumming's Concertino for Contrabassoon and Piano in addition to works by Timothy Grassel, Edward McKenna, P. Kellach Waddle, Ann Marie Kurrasch, and Graham Powning. An incredible sound and an incredible artist.$16.99 from Amazon.com

Arthur Grossman - Bassoon Recital

The World Première Recording of Antoine Tisné's work for Solo Bassoon Impressions Niçoises (Impressions of Nice) by one of America's foremost bassoon virtuosi. Probably the definitive recording of this evocative work. $14.99 from Amazon.com

New Music Masters - Featuring New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich performed by Paul Wehage

The World Première recording of the Version for Saxophone, also featuring works by Gorecki, Pärt, Einauldi and Ott $16.98 from Amazon.com

The Historical Organ Of Saint Roch - Françoise Gangloff, Organist

Works by Nivers, Balbastre, Boely, Benoist, Lefebre-Wely and Dupré performed on the Cavaillé-Colle Instrument for which they were composed by the Organist-Titulaire of the Great Organ of the Church of Saint Roch. An important recording for organ lovers $19.95 from Amazon.com

David Solomons/Lorin Nelson - The Singing Animals - Wildlife in the Nursery

A wonderful recording for children of all ages! David Solomons sings all of your favorite Animal songs to arrangements by Keyboard Wizard Lorin Nelson, with help from Dogs, Cats, Whales, Dolphins and any number of other animals. Very Entertaining and Kids love it! 14€95 from Musik Fabrik

David W. Solomons - Songs of Solomons featuring Stephen Taylor, Counter-tenor and Jonathan Leonard, Piano

Wonderfully evocative songs by David W. Solomons sung by one of England's best Counter-tenors 14€95 from Musik Fabrik

Music of Les Six for Clarinet and Piano- Eric Wachmann, Clarinet, Ted Reuter, Piano

Contains the first recording of the Menuet for Clarinet and Piano by Germaine Tailleferre, which is available from Musik Fabrik. Also contains important works by Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honneger and Georges Auric $17.98 from Amazon.com

Sax-o-Folies - Paul Wehage, Saxophone, John Ferguson Piano

Paul Wehage's first commercial recording, made in 1989 while he was still a student at the Paris Conservatoire. This recording features ligher repertoire from the 1900s-1930s including works by Rudy Wiedoeft, Scott Joplin, Fritz Kreisler, and others. From "Saxophobia" to "The Stars and Stripes Forever" March, this recording shows a wide range of entertaining repertoire.. $14.88 from Amazon.com

Don't Panic! Sixty Seconds for Piano, performed by Guy Livingston, Piano

Pianist Guy Livingston asked Sixty composers to write a short work for solo piano which each lasted sixty seconds. The result is this CD which presents a musical journey through all of the styles that make up late 20th century new music by a wonderful artist who has the technique and the artistic vision to make the project work as a whole. The Recording features "Thinking" by Walter Sanchez. .$21.98 from Amazon.com

Germaine Tailleferrre - Concerto Grosso for Two Pianos, 8 solo Voices, Saxophones and Orchestra performed by the Clinton/Narboni Duo, the XAS Ensemble, Soloists and the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris-Centre directed by Bruno Poindefer - with the Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos and Double by Randall Snyder

Tailleferre's Masterpiece from 1934, called "an explosion of Solar Joy" by the French critic Gabriel Marcel, this is the World Première recording of this work. Given Five stars by the BBC Music Magazine. $17.98 from Amazon.com

Germaine Tailleferrre - Music for Two Pianos and Piano Four-Hands performed by the Clinton/Narboni Duo

Contains many works for two pianos published by Musik Fabrik, including the Toccata written for the Piano Duo Gold and Fitzdale, Intermezzo, Fandango, The Sonata for Two Pianos and the complete Ballet La Nouvelle Cythère written for the Ballet Russes in 1929. This recording was featured on Gramaphone at the time of it's release in 1998. $16.95 from Amazon.com

Germaine Tailleferrre - Works for Violin, Violoncello and Piano by Araigno, Marin and Zigante

The World première recording of Calme Sans Lenteur, part of the 1917 original version of the Piano Trio which is published by Musik Fabrik. Also contains the 1977 version of the Trio, the Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano and other, shorter works. $19.98 from Amazon.com

Antoine Tisné, Orchestral Works, with Paul Wehage, Saxophone, The Orchestre Philharmonic of Brno directed by Leos Svarovsky and the Atélier Musicale de la Ville D'Avray

From Ombres de Feu pour Saxophone and Orchestre to Les Voiles de La Nuit pour Orchestre, this recording explore some of the most beautiful pages of the composer's work. A good introduction to this mystic and profoundly human composer.. 14 euros 95 directly from Musik Fabrik

Virtuoso Trumpet by Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet with Roland Pontinen, Piano

Contains probably the best recording of Héraldiques for trumpet in C & piano by Antoine Tisné as well as the Françaix Trumpet Sonatine, in the first version. Wonderful performances of fine French music. $14.95 from Amazon.com

Rudy Wiedoeft - The Kreisler of the Saxophone

A good cross section of some of the most important works in Wiedoeft's repertoire, performed by the Great Saxophonist himself, including Rubenola, Sax-Serene, Danse Hongroise, Valse Vanité and of course the famous Sax-o-Phun. A must own for saxophonists and saxophone lovers alike. $18.95 from Amazon.com