Quartuor Bozzini is a respected string quartet, known for their love of contemporary music. The junctQín keyboard collective is a trio of pianists working for six-hand piano (meaning all three pianists are playing the same piano together).

The two entities have merged for this latest release, celebrating and interpreting the music of Rebecca Bruton and Jason Doell.

Bruton’s The Faerie Ribbon is a four-part suite. Part One is a percolating tapestry at the beginning, dissolving into moments of stark minimalism, and gradually rebuilding.

Humming and whistling augment the gentler second part and the third part features only piano with extended silences. Part Four is a dense closing movement.

Doell’s to carry dust & breaks through the body is a curious twenty-minute journey that finds the strings gradually detuning by a semitone over the course of the work, while the piano stays in tune. The resulting dissonance is uncomfortable (which is the point).

Those who are unfamiliar with modern classical music may find this record challenging, but I would encourage the effort to try something new. A wise friend once said “we need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.”