Various Artists - Schuttler: Pelze & Restposten / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The final volume in Wergo's acclaimed series of recordings, Earle Brown - a Life in Music, completes the tag's reissue of the eighteen LPs of Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series, recorded between 1960 and 1973. These rare and historically important recordings have been carefully digitized and remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation. The first disc in this set contains works by John Cage and Christian Wolff from the early 1960s. Disc two presents the outstanding violinist Paul Zukofsky, brilliantly accompanied by the pianist Gilbert Kalish, performing works by George Crumb, Isang Yun, Charles Wuorinen and John Cage. The final disc contains works by the South American composers Gerardo Gandini, Cesar Bolaos, Marlos Nobre, Oscar Bazín, Manuel Enriquez and Alcides Lanza, performed by the New Sound Composers-Performers Group under the direction of Alcides Lanza.

Maksimal brings together three major works by Daniel Temkin, music shaped by vivid physical images and a search for the forces that connect experience, memory, and place. At it's center is the violin concerto Maksimal, written for and performed here by Francisco Fullana with Ryan McAdams and the Maksimal Ensemble. Bright, agile, and rhythmically charged, the three movements balance solo virtuosity with quicksilver ensemble dialogue, nodding to Baroque concerto principles while stretching them into larger, continuous arcs. Dreamed Landscapes turns to the piano, with Ryan MacEvoy McCullough tracing three impressionistic studies inspired by galaxies, glaciers, and canyon horizons. Rather than literal depiction, the music focuses on colour, resonance, and the inner sensation of inhabiting these spaces. Completing the program is Ocean's Call, performed by the Aizuri Quartet, a work inspired by California's Pacific coast. From misty harmonics and brittle wind textures to expansive, storm-driven waves, the piece unfolds as a meditation on nature's power and calm. Recorded across Houston and New York, Maksimal is Temkin's second solo album on Orchid Classics a focused, immersive portrait of a composer drawn to sound as landscape, motion, and shared human experience.

This 1950's recording pairs the electrifying accordionist Charles Magnante with the smoldering vocalist LaVergne Smith. Accompanied lightly by banjo, Magnante's virtuosic set ranges from InchTwelfth Street RagInch and the tango InchLa cu cumparsitaInch to Chopin's InchMinute Waltz.Inch Smith's set of smoky vocal and piano duos recalls the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans' French Quarter and includes classics such as InchLover ManInch and InchStraighten Up and Fly Right.Inch