James Sellars -- CD Recommendations

	Echograph (90201) has released this CD of works performed by the Los Angles premiere new music ensemble, the Ear Unit. Included on the disc are GO by James Sellars; Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski; Road Movies by John Adams; Girlfriend by Julia Wolfe; and Foreign Objects by John Bergamo. Get it from Echograph Records by clicking here or through Hog River Music. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Three chamber works by James Sellars; Buelah in Chicago, (on poems by Frank O’Hara); Palm Court Music and Return of the Comet. Get it from Hog River Music. Add your own review by clicking here.
	The Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, performed by virtuosos Carry Hoffman, sax, and John McDonald, piano. Get if from Hog River Music. Add your own review by clicking here.
	The delightful opera The World is Round by James Sellars, based on the poignant book by Gertrude Stein. Libretto by Juanita Rockwell. Get it from Hog River Music. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Six Piano Sonatas and a Sonatina, performed by seven star pianists: Fermin Bernetxea, Jean Pierre Dupuy, Scott Dunn, Julian Jacobson, Anthony de Mare, Lisa Moore, and Aki Takahashi. Get it from Amazon.com by clicking here or through Hog River Music. Add your own review by clicking here.

	CRI's new double album of Martin Bresnick's "Opere della Musica Povera" (Works of a Poor Music) is an impressive collection of recent works, presented in hot recordings by Bang On A Can All-Stars, Yale Philharmonia, Lisa Moore, and many others. Get it from Amazon.com by clicking here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Michael Daugherty's "American Icons" Get it from Amazon.com by clicking here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Robert Maggio's "Seven Mad Gods" Get it from Amazon.com by clicking here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	This new recording of Carl Nielsen's 4th and 5th Symphonies by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Schønwandt, is the first serious contender to the old Bernstein recording of the Fifth. Good music, beautifully recorded. The label is DaCapo, cat. no. 8.224156 Add your own review by clicking here.
	The series of Johannes Ockeghem's sacred works (8 discs, so far) by The Clerks' Group, directed by Edward Wickham, on the ASV label is an immense undertaking exquisitely executed. Ockeghem's rhythmically tricky music is in good hands here. Recordings of the Requiem, the Credo, all the masses except one or two, and most of the Motets. Let's hope for an album of Ockeghem's songs. At least one volume in the series is available from Amazon.com if you click here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	This disc piano works by Robert Carl contains much beautiful and original piano music, all excellently performed. There’s not anything like it around. There are a few strange quirks here and there. Once Carl has set up a mood, an interruption occurs: a sudden dissonant forte or a spiky piano lick (some are very difficult). One exception is Warm (not "Sarm” as is printed on the CD) Waxing Wail, which evokes Ives. The music is decidedly East Coast, more specifically New England. But the originality is consistently striking. A CD well worth owning. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Robert Carl Music for Strings
	It Was Too Quiet Todd Merrell Released 2004 electromagnetica 007 55:56 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Full Fathom Five Todd Merrell Released 2004 electromagnetica 006 47:27 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Infernal Equinox Todd Merrell Released 2004 electromagnetica 005 56:06 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	This Won't Hurt A Bit Todd Merrell Released 2003 electromagnetica 004 24:03 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Songs For Bashful Gods Brawny Prawn [Todd Merrell + machines] Released 2004 lagomorph 002 27:29 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Etherica The Single Side Band [Todd Merrell and Patrick Jordan] Released 2000 electromagnetica 003 ~30:00 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Self-Modulating Prophecy The Single Side Band [Todd Merrell and Patrick Jordan] Released 2000 electromagnetica 002 31:14 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Shipshore The Single Side Band [Todd Merrell and Patrick Jordan] Released 2000 electromagnetica 001 30:42 Recording available here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	The Story of the Morning Qwas' follow-up album to "The Oneiric." This is a guitar-driven electronic-pop album influenced by Radiohead, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Imogen Heap and others.
	The Oneiric Qwas' debut album. Qwas is a collaboration between Nick and NYC-based vocalist, Melanie Curcio. Qwas takes classical art song forms and molds them into electronic-pop soundscape "dreams." Dany Barry, of the publication The Hartford Advocate, describes this album in his list of best CDs of the year 2004 as, "A dazzling look at the subscious on its own terms, rather than as a psychological oddity."
	Sapling The first CD commercially released by Nick Sibicky back in 2003. It mostly consists of chamber music written between 2001-2003 but also features a live performance of The Hartt Orchestra performing "The Mentally Unstable Hippopotamus," as well as a solo piano "Prelude and Fugue" performed by Nick himself.

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