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Saviet/Houston Duo
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An album of works for piano and violin co-composed with Sarah Saviet. Released on Marginal Frequency on September 10th 2024. Buy/download album here​​
​"Saviet and Houston dig deep into small gestures with a generosity and ardor that’s sublime. It’s so great to hear two musicians settle in and truly work out some shit." - Peter Margasak
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**Chosen on the Bandcamp "Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2024" list**
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Octandre Ensemble
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​Solos, duos, trios and quartets by Christian Mason. Released on Winter & Winter in March 2024. Buy album here
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With Audrey Milhères (flute), Corentin Chassard (cello) and Christian Mason (bells, harmonica, electronics)
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"The performances here, by the Octandre Ensemble (of which Mason is a member and a co-founder), are extraordinary, particularly that of pianist Joseph Houston, whose gentle yet full-bodied touch carries the rhetoric of every track on which he appears..." - Evan Johnson, TEMPO, full article here
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Solo and chamber works by Thomas Simaku. Released on BIS in October 2020.
With Quatuor Diotima
"The playing is as assured as expected from such artists as Quatuor Diotima and Joseph Houston, and those who doubted the continued viability of a modernist aesthetic may well be surprised." - Gramophone
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Prisma Interius VII and VIII
Harmonic Space Orchestra
Two pieces by Catherine Lamb. Released on Sacred Realism.
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With Rebecca Lane (flute), Lucy Railton (cello), Jon Heilbron (bass), Cat Lamb (viola), Xavier Lopez (synthesizer)
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Anatomy
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Works by Mark Barden. Released on WERGO.​​
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​Also featuring performances by Matteo Cesari (piccolo) / Helen Bledsoe (piccolo and bass flute) / ensemble mosaik / Enno Poppe (conductor) / Carl Rosman (bass clarinet) / Lorelei Dowling (bassoon) / Ashot Sarkissjan (violin) / Séverine Ballon (violoncello) / Brian Archinal (percussion) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Peter Rundel (conductor)
Solos and Duos for violin and piano
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Chamber music and solos by Thomas Simaku. Released on Naxos.
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Buy album here
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Also features performances by Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) and Roderick Chadwick (piano).