The new record label, all that dust, is run by Newton Armstrong, Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop, and was established with the help of a crowdfunding campaign. It promises to produce a small number of high-quality contemporary music releases yearly, and “seeks to represent a balance of contemporary classics (sometimes recorded in new ways), established living composers and composers of the emerging generation”.

The first releases include intriguing recordings of works from composers and performers such as Morton Feldman, Matthew Shlomowitz, and Séverine Ballon. Two of the most interesting are Milton Babbitt’s Philomel, with soprano Juliet Fraser and Luigi Nono’s La Fabbrica Illuminata, with mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg. Both were...