ANDREW MCINTOSH
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Featured albums:
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Andrew McIntosh  We See the Flying Bird/Five Songs

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January 2019 Populist Records

Featuring multiple Grammy Award winning soprano Estelí Gomez (of Roomful of Teeth) and musicians from New York-based piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, this 10-inch vinyl album features two pieces that complement each other: We See the Flying Bird and Five Songs.

Movses Pogossian   Inspired by Bach

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September 2018 New Focus Recordings

A solo album from violinist Movses Pogossian, featuring Sheer, which Movses commissioned for solo violin and eight bowed wine glasses, alongside works by Kaija Saariaho and Gabriela Lena Frank.

Ashley Walters   Sweet Anxiety

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October 2017 Populist Records

Cellist Ashley Walters' debut album, featuring Another Secular Calvinist Creed alongside solo cello works by Wadada Leo Smith, Luciano Berio, Nicholas Deyoe, and Wolfgang von Schweinitz.

“At album's end, McIntosh's “Another Secular Calvinist Creed" immediately arrests the ear with its unusual scordatura and its step-wise ascents and descents, the ten-minute performance one final testament to Walters's artistry." - Textura

Los Angeles Percussion Quartet   Beyond

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June 2017 Sono Luminus

A 9.1 surround-sound Blu-ray disc (as well as a standard stereo recording on CD) of percussion quartets, including the 40-minute I Hold the Lion's Paw, alongside works by Ellen Reid, Chris Cerrone, Daniel Bjarnasson, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Featured on NPR's Top 10 Classical Albums of 2017

The Industry   Hopscotch

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January 2017 The Industry Records

Scenes from The Industry's mobile opera, Hopscotch, which took place in sites around downtown Los Angeles in 2015 and was composed by six composers (Veronica Krausas, Marc Lowenstein, Ellen Reid, David Rosenboom, Andrew Norman, and Andrew McIntosh). The album includes two scenes by McIntosh; Chapter 9: “Never the end", and Chapter 24: “Strange the way".

Jürg Frey   24 Wörter

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December 2014 Edition Wandelweiser

A song-cycle of stunning beauty composed for soprano, piano, and violin by swiss composer Jürg Frey. Recorded under the direction of the composer in Aarau, Switzerland, with pianist Dante Boon and soprano Regula Konrad.

Andrew McIntosh  Hyenas in the Temples of Pleasure

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October 2014 Populist Records

The first full-length album of my compositions. The ​centerpiece of the album is my quartet for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists​ combining conventional and custom-built instruments​, commissioned​,​ performed​, recorded, and mixed​ by New York-based ​group Yarn/Wire​​. The ​rest of the album consists of the Symmetry Etudes​, ​a book of ​eight​ pieces for two clarinets and violin​ heard here for the first time in their entirety​​. The Etudes were written for and are performed by James Sullivan, Brian Walsh, and Andrew McIntosh, and are mixed and mastered by frequent collaborator Nick Tipp.​​ ​​

“lavish cascades of colorful sound" - LA Times
“overtones gushing through the speakers like icy springs from rock" - The Artificialist
featured in list of “recommended new CDs" by Alex Ross of the The New Yorker

Marc Sabat/Morton Feldman  Les Duresses

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April 2014 care/of editions

My recording of the complete music for solo and duo violins by Marc Sabat, with Marc joining me on the duo, beautifully recorded in a renaissance church just outside of Berlin. Also includes Marc's edition of Morton Feldman's unfinished Composition (1984) for solo violin. Available only on vinyl or as a limited edition digital download.

Tom Johnson  correct music

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8/7/12 Populist Records 

A mostly solo CD of mostly previously unrecorded music by minimalist composer Tom Johnson with guests Douglas Wadle and Brian Walsh.

“Andrew McIntosh's recording of the Rational Melodies is more virtuosic than the previous three, and he is the first to record Tilework for Violin, Tilework for Viola, Eggs and Baskets and Squares. If this CD of correct music is indeed ‘correct,’ this is not only because it is written with precise algorithms, but also because it is performed so carefully.” (Tom Johnson, August 2012.)


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Jürg Frey   Collection Gustave Roud

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September 2017 ​ Another Timbre

2 CD set of chamber music by Jürg Frey, including ​Haut-Jorat and Ombre si fragile performed with Dante Boon, Jürg Frey, and Stefan Thut.

Lewis Pesacov   The Edge of Forever

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June 2016  ​The Industry Records

Opera by Lewis Pesacov and Elizabeth Cline, conducted by Chris Rountree and performed by Wild Up.

Melinda Rice   Let Someone In

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February 2015

Debut album of folk-inspired songs by singer/songwriter/violinist Melinda Rice.

Chris Cerrone  Invisible Cities

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November 2014 The Industry Records

The Industry's recording of Chris Cerrone's opera, conducted by Marc Lowenstein and recorded by Nick Tipp.

wild Up  Feather & Stone

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June 2014 Populist Records

Another wild Up live album, stunningly recorded and mixed by Nick Tipp, featuring music by Archie Carey, Andrew Tholl, Christopher Rountree, Odeya Nini, Chris Kallmyer, Nicholas Deyoe, and Olivier Messiaen.

Harold Budd   Bandits of Stature

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11/27/12 Darla Records 

An album of 14 incredibly beautiful string quartets by ambient/minimalist music icon Harold Budd, recorded by the Formalist Quartet. Available on vinyl and CD.

Cold Blue  Two

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November 2012 Cold Blue Records

A compilation CD of Cold Blue Records musicians and composers. The Formalist Quartet is featured on two tracks: James Tenney's Mallets in the Air (also featuring with Erin Barnes on the diamond marimba) and Andrew Tholl's arrangement of a David Rosenboom piece, Hymn of Change.

Katharina Rosenberger  Texturen

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July 2012 Hat [now] ART records

Performed as a guest violist with the Wet Ink Ensemble, from New York, for this excellent recording of Katharina's music for small ensemble.

wild Up  The Salt of the Earth

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summer 2012 wild Up self-release

A beautifully mastered live album featuring Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a and Frederic Rzewski's Les Moutons de Panurge. Available on vinyl and CD.

Johann Johannsson  Transcendentalism EP

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May 2012 Fat Cat Records 

A compilation CD of Fat Cat Records artists including a track recorded by the Formalist Quartet with Johann Johannsson live in studio on KCRW.

Nicholas Deyoe  with throbbing eyes

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1/17/12 Populist Records

An album of music by Nicholas Deyoe, featuring two string quartets (one very epic, one very small) recorded by the Formalist Quartet.

USC-Hungington Early Modern Studies Institute 
D'ye hear the News

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2011 Yale University Press

Recorded on baroque violin with the USC Early Music Ensemble in a project centered around 17th century English broadside ballads.

Music from Stanford <541> Vol. 4

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8/30/10 Innova Records

A compilation CD of music from Stanford University, featuring the Formalist Quartet on Kristian Ireland's Clearing (I).

Arthur Jarvinen  100 Cadences

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5/5/09 Lakefire Records

A beautiful recording by the Formalist Quartet of the epic album-length work that Arthur Jarvinen wrote for us, 100 Cadences with four melodies, a chorale, and coda (with bells on!). The piece is written in memory of Lucky Mosko and we recorded it with Art at Lou Harrison's hay-bale house in Joshua Tree. 

Music From Stanford <541> Vol. 3

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5/5/09 Innova Records

A compilation CD of music from Stanford University, featuring Inauthentica, with whom I performed on Jason Federmeyer's Inward/Echo.

Henry Wolfe  Wolfe sings Field

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3/30/09 Undermountain Records

An album by indie folk artist Henry Wolfe featuring the Formalist Quartet.

Anne Lebaron  Pope Joan/Transfiguration

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11/6/07 New World Records

Recorded the solo viola part in Anne's chamber opera Pope Joan with Inauthentica, featuring Kristin Norderval.