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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 2d

Don't miss our newest titles featured as Best Sellers and more in @prestomusic.bsky.social's "Classical Constellation" sale! Save up to 30% ➡️ https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/promotions/constellation

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 5d

Don’t miss Ophelia Gordon’s debut video as Gramophone’s Video of the Day! www.gramophone.co.uk/news/article...

Video of the Day: Ophelia Gordon performs Kasputin's 'Paraphrase on Dizzy Gillespie’s Manteca'

Ophelia Gordon’s debut album 'Kapustin, Between the Lines’ will be released on Divine Art on November 14, 2025

www.gramophone.co.uk

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 5d

Ophelia Gordon takes you #BetweenTheLines with the first single from her debut album featuring the music by Nikolai Kapustin!

▶️ Listen now: https://listn.fm/betweenthelines

“This album is a celebration of in-between space — where rhythm dances with form, and where labels fall away.”

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 5d

Out Now! Premiere recordings by the remarkable yet overlooked English composer, Wilfred Heaton! Add, “Discovering Wilfred Heaton” to your library today ➡️ https://listn.fm/discoveringwilfredheaton

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 7d

Don't miss Esther Rayo & Peter Grünberg's debut single, “Al amor”, in Deezer's New in Classical Playlist! ➡️ https://listn.fm/deezerclassical

They perform this and more on October 19 as part of LIEDER ALIVE's Showcase for IntermusicSF's #SFMusicDay at San Francisco's War Memorial Herbst Theatre!

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 8d

James Gilchrist and Rose McLachlan start present a selection of composer Wilfred Heaton's rarely-heard songs on Friday's new release, “Discovering Wilfred Heaton”! Listen to “The Dove’s Answer, WH61” today on #AppleMusicClassical and more: listn.fm/discoveringw...

First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 12d

🙌 The debut single from soprano Esther Rayo and pianist Peter Grünberg is officially out now! Listen to “Al amor” from Fernando Obradors' Canciones Clásicas Españolas, Vol. 1 on all top digital platforms today: listn.fm/estrellita

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Cedric @cedricmetal.bsky.social · 13d

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Michael Finnissy: Organ Works | Listen Now

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 13d

On 10 October, Métier is thrilled to present Michael Finnissy: Organ Works from acclaimed American organist Forrest Eimold!

🎶 Listen to two tracks now on #AppleMusicClassical and more: listn.fm/finnissyorganworks

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 14d

Don't miss Paul Hindmarsh's marvelous new piece in Classical Music UK on the importance of Britain's Brass Bands. A great primer for Discovering Wilfred Heaton!

Read it: https://bit.ly/4mweHbq

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 15d

3️⃣ Tracks from the 3 October release, Discovering Wilfred Heaton, are #nowplaying on #AppleMusicClassical and more!

Listen now to performances from James Gilchrist, Rose McLachlan, Murray McLachlan, and Alex Jakeman at https://listn.fm/discoveringwilfredheaton

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 16d

Don't miss both of our new Métier new releases on #Deezer's New Classical Picks Playlist! Listen now ▶️ https://bit.ly/4mX4dTo

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 19d

Happy listening!!!

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 19d

Thank you!

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 19d

Enjoying new Michael Finnissy piano box set from @ianpace.bsky.social - there’s a lot of emotional & pianistic variety in the pieces @first-inversion.com

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 19d

Today, Métier presents a “monumental” (The Wire) 4-disc box set from pianist Ian Pace in commanding performances of music by composer Michael Finnissy (b. 1946). On all platforms today at https://listn.fm/finnissypiano

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 19d

Métier Records is thrilled to release “Because They Have Songs” from composer Edward Cowie and featuring Gerard McChrystal and Richard Shaw! Out now on all platforms ▶️ listn.fm/becausetheyhavesongs

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 20d

“This monumental piano release features Michael Finnissy’s… luxuriant but challenging textures of the school often called new complexity.” —Andy Hamilton, The Wire

🎶 Album out tomorrow, September 19! listn.fm/finnissypiano

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 21d

Merci!

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 21d

Marvelous new MusicWeb International review for Edward Cowie: Because They Have Songs, before its release this Friday!

“rewards the curious ear and the imaginative soul. Like the birds themselves, it sings because it must – because it has songs.” https://musicwebinternational.com/?p=63840

Quotation text - “a deeply personal meditation on the act of listening, of translating transitory encounters with the wild into lasting musical form. Cowie’s approach invites us to hear not just birdsong, but the emotional resonance of place, memory and artistic response. Whether taken in full flight or savoured movement by movement, this cycle rewards the curious ear and the imaginative soul. Like the birds themselves, it sings because it must – because it has songs.” —John France

This is overlain over an image from the recording sessions with pianist Richard Shaw and saxophonist Gerard McChrystal

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 21d

“Buller… knows how to imbue feelings with ample warmth, colour and tension … Conspirare, led by Craig Hella Johnson, respond to all of Buller’s emotional gestures with utmost cohesion and flexibility” —Gramophone https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/buller-advena-liturgies-for-a-broken-world

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 22d

“This performance will stay with me for a long time; it is both exquisitely beautiful and inherently melancholic.” —Edward Breen, Gramophone on Haitham Haidar's #Zaytoun

🎧 listn.fm/zaytoun
📰 https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/haitham-haidar-zaytoun

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 23d

Don't miss Ryan de Ryke and @danielschlosberg.bsky.social's recording of “Looking to Euridice” from Doug Lofstrom's song cycle, “Myths and Accidents” in Deezer's top Classical New Release picks playlist: https://bit.ly/4mX4dTo

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Daniel Schlosberg @danielschlosberg.bsky.social · 26d

It's album release day! 🎈 If such things are announced on #bluesky. Also my bday lol. Happy to record these cool songs with my longtime friend Ryan de Ryke @first-inversion.com #artsong #newalbum

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 26d

Available today from the Diversions label — Myths and Accidents: Vocal Music of Doug Lofstrom! 🎶➡️ listn.fm/mythsandaccidents

This new recording from the Diversions label presents a focused showcase of the vocal music of #Chicago-based composer Doug Lofstrom. @danielschlosberg.bsky.social

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