Award-winning pianist Sergei Kvitko announces Exit Music (for the End of Time), his final solo piano recording, to be released August 21, 2026. The album presents an extraordinary program of transcriptions drawn from across the full span of Western music, from Bach to Björk, Mozart to Messiaen, Rachmaninoff to Radiohead, and more.

Blue Griffin Recordings is pleased to announce the August 14, 2026 release of Transience — Kindred from saxophonist Alex Lee and pianist Jinwei Yuan. The album features a mixture of commissions and premieres from composers Woody Mo, Nichagarn Chiracharasporn, Chen Yi, Kenichi Ikuno Sekiguchi, Zhou Tian, and Ryota Ishikawa.

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On August 14, Blue Griffin Recording releases The Tibetan Book of the Dead: An Opera by Ricky Ian Gordon, restored from the 1996 Archival Tapes from The American Music Theater Festival from June 12–14, 1996. Co-Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and The American Music Theatre Festival in 1995, The Tibetan Book of the Dead is based on ancient Tibetan Buddhist teachings on death and rebirth, and depicts the epic journey of a dying soul through a series of spiritual and emotional planes along the road of rebirth. 

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Blue Griffin Recording announces the August 7, 2026 release of Nature’s Twilight Idyll, an album of nine evocative new string quartets performed by Italy’s UmbriaEnsemble. Produced in partnership with the nonprofit collective Three Essential Elements, the album gathers works by nine composers from around the world to form a luminous portrait of the natural world, and inviting listeners into a shared, restorative space where music and landscape become one. 

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Blue Griffin Recordings announces the release of Conversations, an album of chamber duos featuring oboe by Brian Raphael Nabors, Yusef Lateef, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Howard Levy. The album features oboist Jared Hauser, pianist Willis Delony, harpist Rachel Miller, and guitarist Richard Todd. 

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Pianist Young Hyun Cho, who has been praised by Aachener Zeitung (Germany) as “…a blessed interpreter of Beethoven…,” brings her impeccable technique and expressive depth to these four early period sonatas.