Urlicht AudioVisual
@urlicht.music
Indy label for cutting-edge #NewMusic, #ClassicalMusic, and cross-genre sounds
Audio restoration
Studio & Dolby Atmos® production
CD and vinyl mastering
Digital and physical media release production & logistics
Metadata editing
https://urlicht-av.com
Audio restoration
Studio & Dolby Atmos® production
CD and vinyl mastering
Digital and physical media release production & logistics
Metadata editing
https://urlicht-av.com
Wow. Tom Service takes Max Richter to the woodshed… make that "puts him in the cornfield."
Why Max Richter’s Hamnet needle-drop left me cold | Tom Service on music
In a new weekly column about the world of classical music, Tom Service bemoans Hollywood turning pieces into slop through overuse. Plus: Philip Glass withdraws his symphony from the Kennedy Center
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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…
Strauss and Haydn Take a Hit as Cash-Crunched Vienna Cuts Budgets
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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...
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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!
Meyrowitz Conducts Liszt: Eine Faust-Symphonie, Les Préludes | Musical Concepts
Selmar Meyrowitz was one of the most exciting conductors of the early 20th century. In 1920s Berlin, he was a star in the opera pit, on the conductor’s podium, and on the air as one of European radio’...
musicalconcepts.net
January 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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!
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ANDRE PREVIN IN LOS ANGELES
Previn looked back on his tenure with the LA Philharmonic
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January 21, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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...
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!
Back from day one of recording the Ballads project with Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen and engineer Sascha von Oertzen. Composers Paolo Marchettini and Michelle Ross were on hand! Planned for release later this year on Urlicht Audiovisual.
January 8, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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
– Jennifer Gersten, Gramophone
Haas: Violin Concerto No. 2 & de terrae fine | Musical Concepts
Top Album of 2025 Selection from The New Yorker's Alex Ross The world premiere recording of a major work of one of the world’s most celebrated living composers, Georg Friedrich Haas will be released w...
musicalconcepts.net
January 6, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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
– 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!
December 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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!
Apex 2025 – Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
therestisnoise.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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.
Happy Podcast Monday! Sample GF Haas' microtonal 2nd Violin Concerto in its premiere rec. Plus Younghi Pagh-Paan at 80, Zorn, Rzewski, Scelsi, Dave Lombardo, Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, Brandon Ross & more.
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@urlicht.music @kbcs.bsky.social @davelombardo.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDev...
@urlicht.music @kbcs.bsky.social @davelombardo.bsky.social
Flotation Device 2025-11-30 - Haas, Sonami, Pagh-Paan
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December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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.
Haas: Violin Concerto No. 2 & de terrae fine - Miranda Cuckson - Urlicht AudioVisual
Available now on CD and for HD download! Read Miranda Cuckson’s extended notes on Haas’s Violin Concerto No. 2 here. […]
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November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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.
Georg Friedrich Haas album: Violin Concerto No. 2 and de terrae fine | Miranda Cuckson
www.mirandacuckson.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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...
Nightafternight playlist – Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
therestisnoise.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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…
October 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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
– Gary Lemma, Audiophile Audition
High praise for a new release from our friends at Parnassus Records
Daniil Shafran: More Cello Masterworks – Tchaikovsky, Popper, Tsintsadze, Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev – Parnassus
From Parnassus, Daniil Sharfan with "More Cello Masterworks", Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and more. Classical Music Review by Gary Lemco.
www.audaud.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"[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
– 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’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI
Technology is radically reshaping how we make music. As I dug deeper into this for a radio 3 documentary I began to wonder if creative organisations are right to be so upbeat about AI. Are we riding t...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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
– Fourth Symphonies
– First [or only] Violin Concertos
– Second Piano Concertos
– Opera Act III Preludes/Intermezzos
I created a “Pain Scale Playlist” using 6th symphonies when a near & dear was feeling miserable. For example:
🥺 Little pain? That’s a 1, or Haydn 6.
“🤬 that hurts!” is definitely a 6 — or Mahler 6 with hammer blows.
Here’s how I used it today…
1/2
#ClassicalMusic
open.spotify.com/playlist/5lu...
🥺 Little pain? That’s a 1, or Haydn 6.
“🤬 that hurts!” is definitely a 6 — or Mahler 6 with hammer blows.
Here’s how I used it today…
1/2
#ClassicalMusic
open.spotify.com/playlist/5lu...
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
– 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
@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social
@mirandac.bsky.social
@elmira-darvarova.bsky.social
@synaphai.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A few people on the label:
@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social
@mirandac.bsky.social
@elmira-darvarova.bsky.social
@synaphai.com
@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.
You can download the full press release from the link below.
Coming in November: Miranda Cuckson Plays Georg Friedrich Haas – Urlicht AudioVisual News
news.urlicht-av.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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.
You can download the full press release from the link below.
Reposted by Urlicht AudioVisual
This is one of the albums of the year and worth catching live
Big gig week in Brooklyn & NYC - Sophie Dunér & Steve Beck swing Stockhausen / 'TIERKREIS' CD release concert at Shapeshifter Lab
Stockhausen @ ShapeShifter Lab with Sophie Dunér & Steve Beck - Urlicht AudioVisual
Celebrating the release of their recording of Stockhausen’s Tierkreis and Francis Schwartz’s “The Neon Pterodactyl”
urlicht-av.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of the albums of the year and worth catching live
Sophie Dunér & Ken Filiano at Silvana - don't miss!
Sophie Dunér & Ken Filiano @ Silvana NYC - Urlicht AudioVisual
“Dunér beguiles and draws everyone in.” – Simon Jenner, Fringe Review “Dunér is a high-octane performer who thrives on visceral […]
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September 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sophie Dunér & Ken Filiano at Silvana - don't miss!
Big gig week in NYC - Ethan Iverson Sextet - 6 nights @ Village Vanguard!
Ethan Iverson Sextet at the Village Vanguard • 6 Nights • September 30–October 5 - Urlicht AudioVisual
ETHAN IVERSON SEXTET SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 5 Sam Newsome, Saxophone • Johnathan Finlayson, Trumpet • Jacob Garchik, Trombone • […]
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September 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
Stockhausen @ ShapeShifter Lab with Sophie Dunér & Steve Beck - Urlicht AudioVisual
Celebrating the release of their recording of Stockhausen’s Tierkreis and Francis Schwartz’s “The Neon Pterodactyl”
urlicht-av.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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.
Haas: Violin Concerto No. 2 & de terrae fine - Miranda Cuckson - Urlicht AudioVisual
“Georg is one of the great musicians of our time and a warm person and friend. The emotion in his music […]
urlicht-av.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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...
TT 537: Jim McNeely, James Newton, Teddy Abrams & Yuja Wang, The Hemphill Stringtet, Sophie Dunér & Steven Beck play Stockhausen, sinonó
The continuing collision of serious jazz and serious classical
iverson.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Ethan Iverson reviews Sophie Dunér's new Stockhausen CD on our label! iverson.substack.com/p/tt-537-jim...