Two recordings of music by Aaron Kernis -- a disc of new orchestral works and the world premiere recording of his 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning string quartet which was previewed with an exclusive sound sample in our News section last month. Trumpet masters Dave Douglas and Wadada Leo Smith join the trio What We Live for a remarkable quintet session and Fred Hersch's intimate solo piano stylistics are finally captured in a live recording. John Corigliano's long-awaited film score for The Red Violin is out as well as the first-ever disc of the complete solo piano music of Miklos Rozsa, known mostly for his epic film scores. There's a disc featuring music by 18 forgotten women ragtime composers and another featuring Dave Brubeck's famous "Blue Rondo a la Turk" transcribed for harpsichord. There has also been a plethora of re-issues of rare historic recordings including Samuel Barber singing his own celebrated Dover Beach, Vladimir Ussachevsky's earliest electronic experiments, and a one-act opera by Carlisle Floyd. New opera, and a variety of distinctly American vernacular off-shoots, is in abundance this month with works ranging from Fred Ho's fascinating Warrior Sisters and the mysterious F. Di Arta-Angeli's unrepentently romantic Frossini to Adam Guettel's musical revue Myths and Hymns and the CIVIL warS, Philip Glass's other collaboration with Robert Wilson.

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Albright, William Aufderhiede, May Frances Barber, Samuel Behrman, David Bepler, Jon Berger, Arthur Blackburn, Philip Blake, Charlotte Bond, Victoria Brazelton, Kitty      1  2 Brooks, Jeffery Brooks, William Brubeck, Dave Burt, Warren Cage, John Chen Yi Chihara, Paul Colgrass, Michael Corigliano, John Cozad, Irene Crumb, George Davis, Marian I. Deane, Anne Delgado, Carlos Di Arta-Angeli, F. Didkovsky, Nick Diemer, Emma Lou Dobynes, Geraldine Douglas, Dave Ellis, Lisle Firehorse, D.J. First, David Floyd, Carlisle Frisell, Bill Gaburo, Kenneth Ghezzo, Dino Giblin, Irene Gilbert, John Giles, Imogene Glass, Philip Gosfield, Annie Guettel, Adam Ha, Youngmi Hagen, Daron Hersch, Fred Ho, Fred Hoffman, Richard Jung, Ji Young Kernis, Aaron Jay      1  2 Kirkpatrick, John Kleier, Roger Kline, Phil Kouneva, Penka Lane, Richard Larsen, Libby Lindroth, Scott Locklair, Dan London, Edwin Lustig, Leila MacBride, David MacDowell, Edward Mamlok, Ursula Maslanka, David Mazurek, Ronald Minette, Gordon Morrill, Dexter Musto, John Myers, John Niebergall, Julia Lee Ochs, Lawrence Ott, David Payne, Maggi Perry, Anita D. Plog, Anthony Porter, Quincy Rands, Bernard Reinhard, Johnny Robinson, Donald Rózsa, Miklós Sametz, Steven Santoboni, Riccardo Schuller, Gunther Schwartz, Elliott Shapero, Harold Shepard, Adaline Siegmeister, Elie Sierra, Roberto Smith, Leo Wadada Stiller, Andrew Stucky, Steven      1  2 Suits, Paul Thomas, Augusta Read Thomas, Richard Pearson Thomson, Virgil Toutant, William Tower, Joan Turrin, Joseph Ussachevsky, Vladimir Watson, Mary Baugh Whalen, Michael Whittenberg, Charles Yelvington, Gladys Yen, Chianan Zaimont, Judith Lang Zdechlik, John Zhou Long