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Episode 276: 19276 Brazilian Music for Oboe and Piano
July 14, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes - 71 MBIn Brazilian Music for Oboe and Piano, oboist Alexandre Ficarelli and pianist Marcos Aragoni present a refined selection of works by Brazilian composers active in the 20th and 21st centuries. These composers include Camargo Guarnieri, Osvaldo Lacerda, Ernst Mahle, Mario Ficarelli, and Liduino Pitombeira. Tracks 1. Ponteio No. 39: Dengoso (Arr. for Oboe and Piano by Osvaldo Lacerda) (M. Camargo Guarnieri) - (1:29) 2. Ponteio No. 44: Desconsolado (Arr. for Oboe and Piano by Osvaldo...
Episode 275: 19275 Mozart - Sonatas for Piano and Violin - Part 2
July 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBRenaud Capuçon’s exciting new Mozart project for Deutsche Grammophon comprises three albums and two STAGE+ performances, all to come before the end of the year. Together they encompass the artist’s multi-faceted career as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, artistic director, and mentor to outstanding young talent. Help support our show by purchasing this album at: Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classic...
Episode 274: 19274 Mozart - Sonatas for Piano and Violin - Part 1
July 12, 2023 00:00 - 3 hours - 276 MBRenaud Capuçon’s exciting new Mozart project for Deutsche Grammophon comprises three albums and two STAGE+ performances, all to come before the end of the year. Together they encompass the artist’s multi-faceted career as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, artistic director, and mentor to outstanding young talent. Help support our show by purchasing this album at: Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classic...
Episode 273: 19273 Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27
July 11, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBHahn recorded all six sonatas in chronological order. “In playbacks, I was struck by how surprising my own playing sounded to me. The goosebumps told me I was headed in the right direction. These sonatas are truly hypnotic, and when we’d wrap for the day, I’d step into the winter air in a haze, my brain reharmonized by the tonalities that had vibrated through my jawbone: a sound bath if ever there was one.” Track Listing: 1 Sonata No. 1 In G Minor – À Joseph Szigeti / I. Grave. Le...
Episode 272: 19272 Franck - Hulda
July 10, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 235 MBCMD Paris Philharmonic and Chorus of Orleans Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu The story tells how Hulda seeks revenge on Aslak and his clan, who killed her family. The subject depicts a young woman as a victim, her faith in nature, her destiny, and women's suffering at the hands of men. Prologue After a prelude depicting the wind and sea, Hulda and her mother, singing a prayer duet, await the return of their menfolk from hunting. After an off-stage chorus of fishermen (accompanie...
Episode 271: 19271 Rachmaninoff - Symphonies 2 and 3 - Isle of the Dead
July 08, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 179 MBDeutsche Grammophon is set to mark the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth with the release of three essential albums. “Rachmaninoff speaks to listeners as powerfully today as ever,” says Dr Clemens Trautmann, President Deutsche Grammophon. “His music first entered the DG catalog during his lifetime and – as our anniversary tribute proves – it continues to inspire a remarkable generation of performers today. These wonderful recordings and breathtaking STAGE+ videos offe...
Episode 270: 19270 Butterfly Lovers
July 07, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBGRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell’s forthcoming recording Butterfly Lovers features one of the most renowned works in the Chinese classical violin repertoire, the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto. Recorded with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) and conducted by Tsung Yeh, the work is a distinctive adaptation for an ensemble of traditional Chinese instruments. TRACKLIST: 1. Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto: I. Adagio Cantabile (Chen Gang / Zhanhao He) 2. Butterfly Lov...
Episode 263: 19263 Sousa's Greatest Hits
July 04, 2023 00:00 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBKnown as "the President's Own," the U.S. Marine Band has played for every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson. Today they give 450 public performances each year, plus 200 more at the White House. Listen as this crack military band plays 18 rousing melodies. Track Listings 1 The Stars And Stripes Forever 2 The Bride Elect 3 Semper Fidelis 4 King Cotton 5 Sound Off 6 The Washington Post 7 The Gladiator 8 National Fencibles 9 Jack Tar 10 The Thunderer 11 Sabre And Spurs 12...
Episode 269: 19269 Quynh Nguyen - The Flower of France
July 03, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBAward-winning Vietnamese American pianist Quynh Nguyen’s (pron. Quin Nwen) newest recording The Flower of France, Germaine Tailleferre, Works for Piano [MA-1306], is now available on the Music & Arts label. The album features works, curated by Nguyen, originally for solo piano, as well as transcriptions and excerpts from Tailleferre’s ballets and film scores representing some of the composer’s best and most significant works, including a number of tracks rarely played or recorded. ...
Episode 259: 19259 Rameau: Acante et Céphise, ou La sympathie
July 02, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 187 MBAcante et Céphise, ou La sympathie is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 19 November 1751 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in three acts. The librettist was Jean-François Marmontel. The opera was written to celebrate the birth of the Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the elder brother of the future King Louis XVI. Although the plot has been described as "puerile....the plot evokes from Rameau a score of remarkable imagination"; it is richly ...
Episode 266: 19266 Brazilian Fruits
July 01, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes - 68.7 MBOlga Kopylova, the principal pianist of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), performs in this album as a tribute to the 30-year artistic journey of Brazilian composer and conductor Rodrigo Vitta, a collection of unpublished works written for the piano. Divided into two parts, the album carefully captures Vitta's artistic essence: In the first part, Brazilian Fruits, Piano Preludes, a profound dialogue is established with the masterful preludes of renowned composers fr...
Episode 224: 19224 Earthdrawn Skies
June 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBFollowing GRAMMY®-Nominated Blueprinting, Earthdrawn Skies explores connections between humankind and nature through the works of Hildegard von Bingen, Eleanor Alberga, Komitas Vardapet, and Sibelius. Earthdrawn Skies Tracklist 1. Hildegard von Bingen – Columba aspexit (arr. Alex Fortes) [6:38] Eleanor Alberga – String Quartet No. 1 2. I. Détaché et martellato e zehr lebhaft und swing it man. [6:26] 3. II. Espressivo, with wonder and yearning. [7:02] 4. III. Frantically ...
Episode 262: 19262 My Favorite Works by Eric Coates
June 29, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.2 MB19262 My Favorite Works by Eric Coates Gertrude Heinz, conductor CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Television March The Three Men Cinderella The Dam Busters Last Love Sweet Seventeen The Three Elizabeths Help support our show by purchasing this album at: Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CM...
Episode 261: 19261 The Blue Album
June 28, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MB“Blue stands for a particularly intimate mood,” says renowned Spanish guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas. And correspondingly his latest album is titled The Blue Album. “Blue symbolizes a mysterious intermediary realm: one thinks of the moment when the sun rises and night slowly withdraws,” Pablo Sainz-Villegas goes on to explain. These are exceptional moments, moments between silence and waking, between heaven and earth, between light and darkness. These are also the moments that spiri...
Episode 260: 19260 The Weber Sisters
June 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBThe story of how Mozart fell in love with the young singer Aloysia Weber, was dumped and then married her younger sister Constanze is well known. The fact that a third sister, Josepha, figured in Mozart's career (and that the youngest sister, Sophia, remembered Mozart from her childhood) is less commonly appreciated. French soprano Sabine Devieilhe steps into the roles of Aloysia, Constanze, and Josepha here, making clear that all three must have been among the strongest sopranos of...
Episode 174: 19174 Mediterranean Pop Mass
June 26, 2023 06:00 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBThe essence of Tonči Huljić’s music is eclecticism, his Western melodic style fused with the rich instrumentalism of the Mediterranean and the world resulting in a completely new spirit. This MEDITERRANEAN POP MASS, recorded in Split, Croatia, thoughtfully blends traditional orchestral and modern sounds in exciting ways, infusing iconic classical works with groove, reignited passion, and an appreciation of the conventions of today’s musical idioms. Featuring an orchestra, choir, mo...
Episode 255: 19255 Prestini - Edward Tulane
June 25, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBEdward Tulane was the first work by a woman to be commissioned by Minnesota Opera as part of the company's New Works Initiative. Said composer Paola Prestini: "I’m immensely grateful that Minnesota Opera chose me for this adventure, and hope that this opera brings new audiences to our stages. The themes found in the DiCamillo novel, woven into a brilliant and unique libretto by Mark Campbell gave me the perfect springboard for an opera about hope and transformation! The opportunity ...
Episode 258: 19258 Mendelssohn - Symphonies 4 and 5
June 24, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBThe Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn. The Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, known as the Reformation, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession. The Confession is a key document of Lutheranism and its Presentation to Emperor Charles V in June 1530 was a momentous event of the Protestant Ref...
Episode 257: 19257 Schubert - Unfinished and The Great Symphonies
June 23, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBFranz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7, in accordance with the revised Deutsch catalog and the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe), commonly known as the Unfinished Symphony, is a musical composition that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements—though he lived for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages orchestrated, also survives. The Symphony No. 9 in C major, D 944, known as Th...
Episode 256: 19256 Schumann: Kinderszenen - Arabeske - Faschingsschwank aus wien
June 22, 2023 00:00 - 55 minutes - 75.8 MBIn 1985, Stanislav Bunin, like Krystian Zimerman ten years earlier, won the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw at the age of 19. The competition was covered in a documentary that was widely broadcast in Japan, and it goes without saying that the winner created a craze in Japan. Bunin has chosen to remain out of the spotlight as an active concert pianist since the 90s, devoting the majority of his time and energy to teaching and passing on his techniques to future generations...
Episode 254: 19254 between systems and grounds - the overshot sessions
June 21, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBComposer Paula Matthusen and visual artist Olivia Valentine release a new album, between systems and grounds - the overshot sessions. between systems and grounds - the overshot sessions is a set of five pieces created as a product of Matthusen and Valentine’s slowly evolving collaboration that began in 2015 when they met in Rome, Italy. The album brings together two mediums: live electronics and live-textile construction, to examine contrasting spaces and time scales by interacting ...
Episode 253: 19253 Max Bruch and Florence Price Violin Concertos
June 20, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBThe recording is an impressive collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning partnership of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra cementing Goosby’s ever-growing stature as a multifaceted talent. Building on his debut album Roots (2021), which celebrated Black classical composers, this album showcases the trailblazing composer Florence Price and German romantic composer and conductor Max Bruch. Track Listing: 1 Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor Op.26 / I. Vors...
Episode 265: 19265 Civil War Soundtrack - Juneteenth Celebration
June 19, 2023 18:06 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBTrack Listings 1 Drums of War - By The Old Bethpage Brass Band - Old Bethpage Brass Band 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes - By Paul Roebling - Oliver Wendall Holmes 3 Ashokan Farewell - By Jay Ungar, Evan Stover, Matt Glaser, Molly Mason, Russ Barenberg - NA 4 Battle Cry of Freedom - By Jaqueline Schwab - NA 5 We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder - By Bernice Johnson Reagon - NA 6 Dixie / Bonnie Blue Flag - By The New American Brass Band - The New American Brass Band 7 Cheer Boys Cheer - By...
Episode 170: 19170 Simon Proctor - Virtuoso Piano Works
June 19, 2023 12:43 - 1 hour - 112 MBComposer Simon Proctor and pianist Tyler Hay join forces to bring a dynamic collection of Proctor’s original compositions to life on VIRTUOSO PIANO WORKS from Navona Records. With works spanning decades of his musical career, Proctor delivers a variety of celebrated classical styles with his own personal twists on this album. From rhapsodies to nocturnes, and everything in between, the composer-pianist duo’s mutual love for virtuosic piano music shines throughout, a perfect pairing ...
Episode 238: 19238 Handel - Julius Caesar in Egypt
June 18, 2023 06:00 - 3 hours - 308 MBGiulio Cesare in Egitto (Italian for 'Julius Caesar in Egypt'); HWV 17, commonly known as Giulio Cesare, is a dramma per musica (opera seria) in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym who used an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani, which had been set to music by Antonio Sartorio (1676). The opera was a success at its first performances, was frequently revived by Handel in his ...
Episode 252: 19252 of Love
June 17, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBGRAMMY-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart releases of Love., an album dedicated to his mother, Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, who died of brain cancer on Sept. 7, 2021, at age 66. “He is a giant … combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New York Times), “a gem of a string player” (The Strad), “whose über passionate and virtuosic outpourings … grapple with reconciling the classical and jazz camps” (Downbeat Magazine). On of Love., a through-composed collection of 20 works, Curt...
Episode 250: 19250 Childhood Tales
June 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBIsata Kanneh-Mason commented: “It was in childhood that my love of classical music first blossomed. The pieces in this album carry with them a certain nostalgia, and I feel almost a sense of longing for childhood in some of them. That wistfulness for childhood is something that I wanted to express, as I think it’s a time when one’s love of music is at its most uncomplicated. Games were as big a part of my childhood as music. It was musical…very vibrant…and very noisy. We also came u...
Episode 249: 19249 Piano Solos
June 15, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBIn Piano Solos, Fabio Caramuru delves into different moments of his career. He contemplates pieces of his own composition, created between the years 2011 and 2021, and creates new interpretations from them. The experience in both classical and popular music of this pianist and composer from São Paulo often flows under the spell of nature, as evidenced by The Wings Suite, Op. 16. Within it, the movement Tangará evokes the song of the bird to which its title refers and also finds ...
Episode 251: 19251 My Favorite Orchestral Works of Claude Debussy
June 14, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBAs a small girl, I first heard Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune when my parents played it on the family record player. I instantly fell in love with the piece and wanted to know more about the composer. Little did I know that as an adult, I would be conducting this piece and others with my home orchestra. In this podcast, thank you Classical Music Discoveries for making my dreams come true, I am proud to conduct 4 works by the amazing French Impressionist composer, Claude Debussy....
Episode 248: 19248 non è la fine
June 13, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MBThe title of the album and the first single ‘non è la fine’ released on April 14th comes from a sense of endlessness and hope found in it. “Writing ‘non è la fine’, the purpose was to empty out. I wanted to create an incomplete piece, where endless arpeggio feels like the main melody” says Yiruma. “The music came to mind in a moment when ‘end-less’ felt more hopeful than the term ‘eternal’. When there is an ‘end’ we prepare and wait for a certain moment and during that time it gives...
Episode 169: 19169 The Beauty of Innuendos
June 12, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBFrank Felice, an eclectic composer celebrated for his postmodern mischievousness, explores his own brand of “consonant adiatonicism” in THE BEAUTY OF INNUENDOS. Throughout the album, Felice sets a variety of texts to music, ranging from the antiphons of 9th century Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen to the modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens. Felice’s compositions explore the given text while also demonstrating the virtuosic skill of the singer and the pianist; the latter, far fro...
Episode 136: 19136 Britten - Peter Grimes
June 11, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 197 MBPeter Grimes, Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's long narrative poem The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional small town that bears some resemblance to Crabbe's – and later Britten's – home of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on England's east coast. To learn more about this opera, please visit: Peter Grimes - Wikipedia
Episode 247: 19247 Midnight Sessions
June 10, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 27.7 MBAnna Lapwood is like no other musician, and after recently signing a major label deal with Sony Classical, she releases her 5-track Midnight Sessions At The Royal Albert Hall EP of film transcriptions - out now - recorded on the organ of the Royal Albert Hall. An album will arrive later this year, as well as a host of prestigious organ recitals and concertos this Spring. EP TRACKLIST: MIDNIGHT SESSIONS AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 1. Cornfield Chase (From “Interstellar”) 2. Test Driv...
Episode 223: 19223 Voice of Rachmaninoff
June 09, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBIn an album celebrating the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth, cellist John-Henry Crawford and pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion explore the voice-like qualities of the composer’s melodies. From the hauntingly beautiful “Vocalise” to the rousing energy of the “Sonata for Cello and Piano,” each piece is a testament to the genius of Rachmaninoff and the emotive power of the cello. Morceaux de Fantasie, Op.3 1. No.1 Elégie – Moderato 12 Romances, Op.21 No.7 2. Zdes Khorosho ...
Episode 246: 19246 The Light
June 08, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBIcelandic pianist and composer, Eydís Evensen will release her much anticipated second album ‘The Light’ on 26th May via XXIM Records. Following on from her successful 2021 debut ‘Bylur’, which put her firmly on the map as one of the neoclassical’s leading artists and which has amassed over 40 million audio streams to date, and her subsequent 2022 EP ‘Frost’, ‘The Light’ further expands on this young artist’s scope for talent and expression, presenting her not only as a pianist, arr...
Episode 229: 19229 Maestra Dominique Beaulieu - My Favorite Works by Tomaso Albinoni
June 07, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBMaestra Dominique Beaulieu - My Favorite Works by Tomaso Albinoni Help support our show by purchasing this album at: Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber #AppleCl...
Episode 245: 19245 Mozart's Mannheim
June 06, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBMozart’s Mannheim has been carefully curated to give 21st-century listeners an idea of the sound world experienced by Mozart when he visited Mannheim in the late 1770s. The southern German city’s legendary court orchestra made it a go-to destination for 18th-century cultural pilgrims and the Freiburger Barockorchester (FBO) has chosen to paint a musical portrait of Mannheim for its debut Deutsche Grammophon album. Mozart’s Mannheim presents a variety of orchestral and chamber pieces...
Episode 168: 19168 Ark Resounding
June 05, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes - 67 MBNon-standard setups in classical music may be interesting, but they are commonly faced with the problem of limited repertoire. The ARK Trio, formed by soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson, and pianist Reiko Uchida, has found a way of circumventing this challenge by commissioning works from contemporary composers as well as re-arranging classics, and the result can be heard on their debut release, ARK RESOUNDING. The pieces presented here may be an eclectic mix of Am...
Episode 232: 19232 Symphonies by Carl Nielsen
June 04, 2023 00:00 - 3 hours - 299 MBTrack Listing: 1 Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7: / I. Allegro orgoglioso 09:20 2 II. Andante 07:47 3 III. Allegro comodo 07:49 4 IV. Allegro con fuoco 08:58 5 Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 The Four Temperaments / I. Allegro collerico 10:06 6 II. Allegro comodo e flemmatico 04:56 7 III. Andante malincolico 12:56 8 IV. Allegro sanguineo 07:02 9 Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 Espansiva / I. Allegro espansivo 11:09 10 II. Andante pastorale 10:38 11 III. Allegretto un poco 0...
Episode 244: 19244 The Canções de Amor
June 03, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBThe Canções de Amor - by Claudio Santoro and Vinicius de Moraes - are a precious encounter between Brazilian music and literature, representing the fusion of sounds and aesthetics that traversed between popular music and classical music in the late 1950s. Gathering references that immediately take us to the sounds of bossa nova and the aesthetic refinement of composers from this period, the album presents a selection of 15 songs. Tracks 1. Meu Amor Me Disse Adeus Claudio Santoro, ...
Episode 243: 19243 TRAVESÍA
June 02, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 125 MBMilan Records releases TRAVESÍA, an album of music by the late composer RYUICHI SAKAMOTO curated by award-winning filmmaker ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU. Available now both digitally and in vinyl format, Travesía features selections from Sakamoto’s prolific catalog handpicked by Iñárritu, who famously collaborated with the composer on his Oscar-winning film The Revenant. Originally conceived as a surprise project celebrating Sakamoto’s 70th birthday, the album is the result of nearly two y...
Episode 242: 19242 Peace
June 01, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBThis poignant & emotional body of work features five tracks, including original compositions Peace, St Andrews, and When The Bells Ring, inspired by the untouched beauty of nature and gorgeously arranged versions of Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze, and Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Alexis’ deep reverence for nature shines through in every note of his solo piano EP, drawing inspiration from his personal experiences exploring the stunning landscapes of the Scottish Highlands with his yo...
Episode 227: 19227 Maestra Gertrude Heinz - My Favorite Works of Arvo Pärt
May 31, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 220 MBMaestra Gertrude Heinz's favorite works by Arvo Part. Help support our show by purchasing this album at: Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber #AppleClassical P...
Episode 241: 19241 Sojourns in Solitude - Transylvania
May 30, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBSojourns in Solitude has been reissued after 17 years in physical form. This is Greg C. Brown's best-selling CD to date. Order while supplies last. It contains all solo guitar works but concludes with "Transylvania", an orchestral piece for guitar and chamber orchestra. The piece takes the more literal meaning, a walk through the woods but definitely some dense places in the forest. Kevin Elliot is the Conductor of the Camerata Rotunda Chamber Orchestra. The recording is of the prem...
Episode 166: 19166 Variations on a Theme by Stefan Wolpe
May 29, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBVery few genres are as difficult to interpret pianistically as that of contemporary serious music: it often requires a superhuman degree of both virtuosity and patience, and the potential pitfalls of expression are ever-present. Enter Korean pianist Koeun Grace Lee, who zestily breezes through the most varied contemporary repertoire imaginable, with a level of self-assurance and musical competence that borders on being a revelation. While also featuring folkloristically-inspired wo...
Episode 231: 19231 CARMEN (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
May 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThe album is the result of six years Britell spent in close collaboration with director Benjamin Millepied on the film for which Britell also serves as an executive producer. The final 30-track collection is a body of music as expansive as the film itself, one that soars with majesty and intensity and leads listeners on an unforgettable journey. Millepied’s complete reimagining of CARMEN tells its story through an experimental dreamscape of a film and is an experience to behold. TR...
Episode 240: 19240 The Official Recording of THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING CHARLES III & QUEEN CAMILLA
May 27, 2023 00:00 - 3 hours - 311 MBWhen Their Majesties King Charles III & Queen Camilla are crowned at Westminster Abbey next month, the service, and pre-service music, will be exclusively recorded and released by Decca Records the very same day. The Official Album of the Coronation, to take place on Saturday 6th May 2023, will include all music and spoken word from the global event and will feature an official photograph from the day as cover art. This marks the first time ever a recording of a Coronation ceremony ...
Episode 239: 19239 Beethoven and Beyond
May 26, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 144 MB“You can’t rely on virtuosity in Beethoven’s concerto; you have to reveal yourself,” says María Dueñas. And that can only be done through sound.” The supremely talented Spanish violinist will launch her Deutsche Grammophon career in bold fashion by delivering an intriguingly individual interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, one of the most musically demanding and emotionally profound works in the repertoire. The concerto was recorded live during a recent run of three accla...
Episode 237: 19237 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 68
May 25, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MBThe Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, is a symphony written by Johannes Brahms. Brahms spent at least fourteen years completing this work, whose sketches date from 1854. Brahms himself declared that the symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took 21 years, from 1855 to 1876. The premiere of this symphony, conducted by the composer's friend Felix Otto Dessoff, occurred on 4 November 1876, in Karlsruhe, then in the Grand Duchy of Baden. A typical performance lasts between 45 a...
Episode 226: 19226 Arvo Pärt: The Complete Symphonies
May 24, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBArvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music. He is a devout Orthodox Christian and a pioneer of minimalism and tintinnabula styles. He is known for his works for choir and instruments, such as Tabula Rasa, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, and Magnificat-Antiphones. He was born in Paide in 1935 and studied music at the Tallinn Conservatory. He is one of the most performed living composers in the world. Symphonies 1-4 Help support our show by purchasing this...