King Crimson – The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 7, 1981 (late show) (DGMLive)
Riccardo Zandonai – Francesca da Rimini – Magda Olivero, Mario Del Monaco, Giampiero Malaspino, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala Milan/Gianandrea Gavazzeni (Hallmark > MOG)
Incantation – Vanquish in Vengeance (Listenable > MOG)
Dennis Johnson – November – R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog)
Olivier Messiaen – Livre du Saint Sacrement; Prelude; Monodie; Verset pour la fête de la Dédicace; Offrande au Saint Sacrement; Diptyque - Gillian Weir (Priory > MOG)
Joseph Byrd – NYC 1960–1963 – Alan Zimmerman, American Contemporary Music Ensemble (New World)
Kris Davis – Capricorn Climber (Clean Feed)
Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House – Strong Place (Intakt)
Dave Douglas Quintet – Time Travel (Greenleaf Music; due Apr. 9)
King Crimson – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Columbia, Dec. 1, 1981 (DGMLive)
Will Long – Rosy Reflections (Avant Archive > Bandcamp)
Aaron Dilloway – Siena (Hanson > Bandcamp)
Jason Lescalleet – This Is What I Do, Volume One (Glistening Examples > Bandcamp)
Kyle Landstra – New Light (Space Slave)
Courtly Illusion Limited – Courtly Illusion Limited (Space Slave)
Tuluum Shimmering – Raag Wichikapache/Lake of Mapang (Space Slave)
Demdike Stare – The Weight of Culture (self-released)
Cool Person – Cool Person (Hooker Vision)
Grant Evans – False Flag Loops (Hooker Vision)
Scott Cloud – Saffron Bay (self-released)
Butch Morris/Lê Quan Ninh/J.A. Deane – Burning Cloud (FMP/Destination: Out > Bandcamp)
Catherine Lamb – Periphery (Engraved Glass)
King Crimson – Park West, Chicago, IL, Aug. 7, 2008 (DGMLive)
Brian Green – Balance (Bandcamp)
Gasoline Gathers Hands, Gathers Friends – Gasoline Gathers Hands, Gathers Friends (No Shade > Bandcamp)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 4; Cantata BWV 199 "Meine Herze schwimmt im Blut" – Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (Yarlung)
Sasha Cooke – If You Love for Beauty – Colburn Orchestra/Yehuda Gilad (Yarlung)
Béla Bartók – Concerto for Viola and Orchestra – William Primrose, New Symphony Orchestra of London/Tibor Serly (MusiKazoo > MOG)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Flos Campi – William Primrose, Philharmonia Orchestra/Adrian Boult (Broken Audio > MOG)
Hector Berlioz – Harold en Italie – William Lincer, New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classical > MOG)
György Ligeti – Sonata for Viola solo; György Kurtág – Signs, Games and Messages – Kim Kashkashian (ECM New Series)
Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Viola and Piano (Op. 11, No. 4); Sonata for Viola Only (Op. 25, No. 1); Sonata for Viola and Piano (1939); Capriccio for Cello and Piano (Op. 8, No. 1; arr. Gandelsman) – Yuri Gandelsman, Ralph Votapek (Blue Griffin)
Minna Keal – Ballade in F minor; Marcelle Soulage – Sonata for Solo Viola; Fernande Decruck – Sonata for Viola and Piano; Luise Adolpha Le Beau – Three Pieces for Viola and Piano; Pamela Harrison – Sonata for Viola and Piano; Lillian Fuchs – Sonata Pastorale; Rebecca Clarke – Sonata for Viola and Piano – Hillary Herndon, Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo (MSR Classics)
Steven Mackey – Groundswell – Hsin-Yun Huang, American Modern Ensemble; Poul Ruders – Romances – Hsin-Yun Huang, Sarah Rothenberg; George Benjamin – Viola, Viola – Hsin-Yun Huang, Misha Amory; Elliott Carter – Figment 4 – Hsin-Yun Huang; Shih-Hui Chen – Remembrance – Evergreen Symphony Orchestra/Gernot Schmalfuss (Bridge)
Paul Chihara – Concerto Piccolo – Paul Coletti, Ben Ullery, Gina Coletti, Zach Dellinger; Concerto for Viola – Paul Coletti, Colburn Orchestra/Yehuda Gilad; Redwood – Paul Coletti, Jack Van Geem; Sonata for Viola and Piano – Paul Coletti, Vivian Fan (Bridge)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Passacaglia; Irish trad./arr. Cords – Pórt Na BPúcaí; Edmund Rubbra – Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn 'O Quando E Cruce'; Alan Hovhaness – Chahagir; Nicholas Cords – Five Migrations; Igor Stravinsky – Élégie; Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Solo Viola (Op. 11, No. 5) – Nicholas Cords (In a Circle)
Judd Greenstein – In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves; Shara Worden – From the Invisible to the Visible; Missy Mazzoli – Tooth and Nail; Nico Muhly – Étude 3; Paul Corley – Tristan de Cunha; Daníel Bjarnason – Sleep Variations – Nadia Sirota, James McVinnie, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Frank Aarnink, Daníel Bjarnason (New Amsterdam/Bedroom Community)
Anthony Braxton – Trio (NYC) 2011 (New Braxton House)
Catherine Lamb – Cross/Collapse (Absence of Wax)
Barn Owl – V (Thrill Jockey; due Apr. 16)
Coyote Image Medicinals – Coyote Image Medicinals (Kimberly Dawn > Bandcamp)
Stygian Stride – Stygian Stride (Thrill Jockey)
Nova Scotian Arms – Cult Spectrum (Digitalis > Bandcamp)
Tom Johnson – Correct Music – Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh, Douglas Wadle, Brian Walsh (Populist)
Iva Bittová – Iva Bittová (ECM; due March 26)
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi – Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour In All the Mystery (Black Truffle)
Alvin Lucier – Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings – Lois Svard; Theme – Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; Music for Gamelan Instruments Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers – Wesleyan University Gamelan Ensemble (Lovely Music)
Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Penchant Mode (No Kings)
Coupler – Sunless (No Kings)
Inez Lightfoot – Three Weaving at the Well (No Kings)
Woven Hare / Elder / Knit Prism – split CS (Worn Habit)
Toshiya Tsunoda – Scenery of Decalcomania (Naturestrip)
Giant Claw – Music for Film (Constellation Tatsu)
Forming – Variations of the One Essence (Worn Habit)
Thoughts on Air – LED Blues (Worn Habit)
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