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YouTube video by Haitham Haidar Zaytoun Trailer Official

Don’t miss the newly released trailer for Haitham Haidar’s #Zaytoun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G29a...

Out now from Métier Records! ▶️ listn.fm/radiowithoutvoice

Radio With/Out Voice reanimates John Cage’s enduring fascination with the medium of radio. Performed by Clare and David Lesser, this recording explores Cage’s radiophonic works through performance, composition, and critical engagement.

Gramophone print subscribers should keep an eye out…

Indeed!

Announcing “Myths and Accidents: Vocal Music of Doug Lofstrom” coming to the Diversions label on 12 September! Pre-order now at https://listn.fm/mythsandaccidents

Featuring Ryan de Ryke, Kim Jones, Ryan Townsend Strand, @danielschlosberg.bsky.social‬, and a fantastic session chamber orchestra!

Gilbert Rowland's fourth and final volume in his “glorious” Johann Jakob Froberger series is out on 15 August! Listen to THREE tracks now in #AppleMusicClassical and more: https://listn.fm/frobergersuitesv4

Thanks Michael!

Happy Podcast Monday! This week Liza Lim, Matt Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Evan Parker, JACK Quartet and Keith Jarrett are all in the spotlight with new releases.
www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDev... @kbcs.bsky.social @johncagetrust.bsky.social @first-inversion.com @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Don't miss Tom Hicks' article, “Reimagining the Nocturnes: Chopin, Authenticity and Creative Freedom” on International Piano! https://bit.ly/45rMvkB

Das Geheimnis der Chopin-Nocturnes - Pizzicato Der 31 Jahre alte, aus Guernsey stammende Pianist Tom Hicks legt mit diesem Album eine der interessantesten Gesamtaufnahmen von Chopins Nocturnes vor. Interessant sind die Interpretationen, weil sie p...

Don’t mind starting a Sunday with a “SuperSonic” Award from Remy Franck and Pizzicato Magazine! www.pizzicato.lu/das-geheimni...

Cooler Classics for Sunday 3rd August 2025 on www.thefeelgoodstation.uk (9-11pm) and on mixcloud.com/peter-lewis15. A mix of opera,baroque, orchestral, choral…and new.. Featuring: Tom Hicks recounts his career to date, and explains his latest release “Chopin Nocturnes” Additional music from: Ia…

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New single from Haitham Haidar's debut #Zaytoun release is out now! Listen to “Wa Habibi” on all platforms via https://listn.fm/zaytoun

Out today! Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes from pianist Tom Hicks.

Listen: listn.fm/chopinnocturnes
Explore the release with Tom Hicks on International Piano: http://bit.ly/45rMvkB

Our own @davidweuste.bsky.social joined @psl48.bsky.social on his program “Cooler Classics” to preview some of our August and September releases! www.mixcloud.com/peter-lewis1...

🎶📻 Listen now to the “Sculptures Musicales” from Clare Lesser and David Lesser's John Cage: Radio With/Out Voice: https://listn.fm/radiowithoutvoice

Fantastic to see this first single in the #Spotify New Classical Playlist!

Friday, 25 July, we're excited to be releasing your first listen to pianist Rob Hao's striking debut release, #Palimpsest! Coming 5 September, Palimpsest explores how music from different times and styles can interact and inspire new ideas. Pre-save and pre-order now at: https://listn.fm/palimpsest

This is an ad in a program. It might not be the coolest thing you’ve seen, but we hope you’ve seen it! 🤓

Hey there, somebody found us while backstage at tonight’s BBC Proms. 😎

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Fun start to the day with a lovely discussion with @psl48.bsky.social for his marvelous radio programs. I probably rambled a bit more than he’d prefer, but so appreciate his support for independent labels and artists!

Thanks Michael! Radio on the radio!

Photo credits: Thollem and ACVilla via the artists, Liza Lim by Astrid Ackermann, John Cage by Marion Kalter, Anthony Braxton at Montreux 1975, Fabien Lévy by Jenny Wolf, Johannes Kalitzke: Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek (Johanna Zimmer, puppets, Iurii Iushkevich), Edges (Sylvain Kassap, Steve Swell, Benjamin Duboc, Chad Taylor) by Nicholas Dorbon, Matt Mitchell by Q. Bertram, Peter Ruzicka by Wilfried Beege, Keith Jarrett by Rose Anne Colavito, Evan Parker and Jean-Marc Foussat at Cafe OTO. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice.

Tonight on Flotation Device:
-Liza Lim's new cello concerto and string 4tet
-Matt Mitchell at 50
-Braxton at Montreux
-Thollem in Seattle
-Cage's Radio Music
Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm
@kbcs.bsky.social @thollem.bsky.social @johncagetrust.bsky.social @first-inversion.com @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Out now on all platforms. A must listen for contemporary music fans. Love when artists of the caliber of Noemi Gyori pour everything into something that stretches them to new heights.

With the start of Proms, if you’ll be there, keep an eye out for us in your programs. Send us a pic here and we’ll send you something from the catalogue. #bbcproms

Métier Records is thrilled to announce the release of “New French Song II” from Alison Smart Fisher and Katharine Durran! Available today on all major retailers via listn.fm/newfrenchsong2

Loving the early views coming from this. Two critics have it as an immediate jump to the top of their Nocturnes list. Rate to have something so new from something so known.

#Nowplaying on all major streaming services: “Ya Taleen,” arranged for five voices and cello by Shireen Abu-Khader and Nareg Abajian from Haitham Haidar's upcoming #Zaytoun release! Listen now at listn.fm/zaytoun

"Johannes Brahms!"
"🎶GUTEN TAAAAAAAAG!!!🎶"

Every time 😅

Can officially say I’m a member of the Recording Academy. Fun to join today along with at least three @first-inversion.com artists, and the 3,596 other new members in the 2025 class.