Coming next Friday - the improvisatory intersection of world music, jazz, and ambient sound from four amazing, creative musicians!

Stockhausen's "Tierkreis" Explained - Sophie Dunér talks to Steve Robinson. The interview is now on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gm6...

Go read Ethan Iverson's interview with composer Georg Friedrich Haas - published in advance of a Thursday concert premiere here in NYC of Haas's 𝘈𝘯𝘯ä𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘨 with Miranda Cuckson and Parker Ramsay. See comments for links.

Wow. Tom Service takes Max Richter to the woodshed… make that "puts him in the cornfield."

Well, that casts a nice big gray cloud over my morning…

Cool! Toblach Ausgabe's restored release of legendary Liszt recordings conducted by Selmar Meyrowitz makes Deezer's must-stream New Classical list! Links for download & streaming at musicalconcepts.net/recording/me...

Now available for download and streaming: landmark historic Liszt recordings including the first ever recording of the Faust Symphony, conducted by an unjustly forgotten maestro, remastered by Urlicht Audiovisual and released on Toblach Ausgabe. Links on the page!

André Previn's soundtrack scores influenced musicians across a spectrum of genres, including John Williams, Shelly Manne, and Billy Hart. Tim Page has published his interview with Previn from 2018(?) on his new Substack. It's well worth a read! substack.com/inbox/post/1...

A long-planned recording is under way: violinist Miranda Cuckson and pianist Blair McMillan in a program of Ballads for violin and piano, from Manuel Ponce to Coleman Hawkins via Ethan Iverson to Billy Jim Layton to new works by Michelle Ross, Paolo Marchettini, Matthew Aucoin, and many more!

Haas proposed writing the concerto for Cuckson after one of her performances of [de terrae fine]; in both, imbrications peel away and reshuffle themselves as striking emotional flights. … [concerto] situates the soloist as a prism refracting the orchestra’s behaviours. – Jennifer Gersten, Gramophone

Urlicht AudioVisual's release of Stockhausen's Tierkreis performed by avant-garde jazz vocalist Sophie Dunér and keyboardist Steven Beck makes Mathias Lundqvist's Best New Music of 2025!

Urlicht's new recording of Haas's Violin Concerto No. 2 played by Miranda Cuckson with the ORF RSO Wien conducted by Markus Poschner makes venerable critic Alex Ross's "Apex 2025" best of list! Congratulations to the wonderful musicians and the team at ORF who made this release possible!

Flotation Device features Urlicht's recordinh of Haas's Violin Concerto No. 2 with @mirandac.bsky.social Miranda Cuckson and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus Poschner.

Available now - Miranda Cuckson @mirandac.bsky.social plays Georg Friedrich Haas.

Recommended reading: Miranda Cuckson @mirandac.bsky.social goes into depth on Georg Friedrich Haas's Violin Concerto No. 2 on her web site.

Alex Ross has included our newest release - Georg Friedrich Haas's Violin Concerto No. 2 played by @mirandac.bsky.social Miranda Cuckson - on his latest playlist. Link to preorder (available Friday) in comments. therestisnoise.com/nightafterni...

Your moment of musicology cringe for Monday…

"[A] program 1949-1962 that demonstrates something of the range of Shafran’s fluid art, that defines the discovery of what Steven Isserlis calls 'the last member of a lost tribe of cellists.'" – Gary Lemma, Audiophile Audition High praise for a new release from our friends at Parnassus Records

Check out Tarik O'Regan's article in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙣.

I like the idea of a "pain scale playlist", though I'd use – Fourth Symphonies – First [or only] Violin Concertos – Second Piano Concertos – Opera Act III Preludes/Intermezzos

A few people on the label: @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social @mirandac.bsky.social @elmira-darvarova.bsky.social @synaphai.com

On November 21, Urlicht Audiovisual will release Miranda Cuckson's recording of Georg Friedrich Haas's 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙤 𝙉𝙤. 2 with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien conducted by Markus Poschner on CD and for streaming and HD download. You can download the full press release from the link below.

This is one of the albums of the year and worth catching live

Sophie Dunér & Ken Filiano at Silvana - don't miss!

Big gig week in NYC - Ethan Iverson Sextet - 6 nights @ Village Vanguard!

Big gig week in Brooklyn & NYC - Sophie Dunér & Steve Beck swing Stockhausen / 'TIERKREIS' CD release concert at Shapeshifter Lab

Coming in November: Miranda Cuckson plays Georg Friedrich Haas – the world premiere recording of his 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙤 𝙉𝙤. 2, recorded live at the Musikverein, Vienna, coupled with 𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚 for solo violin.

Ethan Iverson reviews Sophie Dunér's new Stockhausen CD on our label! iverson.substack.com/p/tt-537-jim...

A great evening at the Lincoln Center with these fine people. Thanks to Anthony Cheung and American Modern Opera company for bringing us all together.

Coming this Friday - Stockhausen's most popular masterpiece in a unique interpretation by jazz vocal virtuoso Sophie Dunér and new music keyboard wizard Steve Beck. Available for CD and download preorder - links in comments! urlicht-av.com/playlist/sto...

Two Urlicht AudioVisual projects - one for our own label, one for Parnassus records - garner praise in the April issue of America’s premier audiophile magazine!

Urlicht's @genegaudette.bsky.social spent part of Friday at The Juilliard School checking out their upgraded recording studio with in-house tonmeister Sascha von Oertzen, distinguished Juilliard alum Miranda Cuckson @mirandac.bsky.social, and legendary audio engineer Larry Rock.

Now it can be told! #classicalmusic #Karajan #BerlinPhilharmonic

Our new web site is live at urlicht-av.com - check it out!!