Sacred Black Records

Sacred Black Records

Independent classical music label and publisher

For Whom the Bell Tolls album cover
New release

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Stephen Mattingly, solo guitar · October 2, 2026

Music written in response to authoritarian violence, and in praise of the compassion that resists it: Roberto Gerhard’s Hemingway score, with elegies for Chile and Panama.

Guitar Music of Iceland, Vol. 1 album cover
Out December 3

Guitar Music of Iceland, Vol. 1

Svanur Vilbergsson, solo guitar

World-premiere recordings of new Icelandic guitar music by Daniele Basini, Egill Gunnarsson, Sigurður Árni Jónsson and Hafdís Bjarnadóttir, with Svanur Vilbergsson’s arrangements of Jón Leifs and Jón Nordal.

  • Svanur Vilbergsson with the Magma Guitar DuoConcert and masterclassSigursveinn Music Academy, Reykjavík, Iceland
  • Svanur Vilbergsson with the Magma Guitar DuoConcert at the Ja Kitara Soi music festivalLappeenranta, Finland
  • Magma Guitar Duo: New Icelandic Music for Guitar DuoRecording sessionCathedral Barn, Traverse City, MI, USA
  • Svanur Vilbergsson and Berta Dröfn Ómarsdóttir, sopranoVoice and guitar concertHannesarholt, Reykjavík, Iceland
Stephen Mattingly plays Two Young FishFrom For Whom the Bell Tolls
Kara Huber plays Love Letter by Joan TowerWorld premiere recording
Cochran & McAllister play InterstellarFrom Pale Blue Dot