Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music: Recent Episodes
Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
" It’s very cool the way he’s written a dialogue between the two instruments." Arianna Warsaw-Fan on Kodaly.
Lutenist Ronn McFarlane and flutist Mindy Rosenfeld's new recording is Nine Notes that Shook the World.
Pianist Michael Lewin presents a recording of ghouls, ghosts and goblins with plenty of lead time for the Halloween season.
The combination of the artistry of a maker, performers and composers, ...that's something special.
"There's a way to impact people with the language of music, that we simply cannot do with words!"
Very few recordings are currently available of Rosenmüller’s music, which makes the release from Ensemble Masques all the more welcome.
The Ying Quartet has a reputation for fresh programming, and this release is no exception.
Anyone who has thought of Palestrina's works as sounding all the same will be pleasantly surprised.
Fans of good contemporary chamber music will want to own this; it repays repeated listening and reveals Auerbach as a true force in today’s music.
Petri’s playing brings a fresh appreciation for Mozart’s work in this much underrepresented genre.
All the composers are women, but Herndon doesn’t think there’s a specially ‘womanly touch.’
Then we added other winds like the sackbuts to create what was the premiere instrumental ensemble of the period in the Renaissance.
Needless to say the string quartets in the world have certainly not played a whole lot of Chopin .
"The project was really about finding music that we liked and that was different," Christine Howlett.
"Our theme for the CD was "graces" or ornaments and these pieces are all about ornaments."
" I don’t necessarily see the images when I’m playing, but I do react to the feelings." Michele Fiala
There are some excruciatingly angst-like harmonies and there’s also some very playful stuff !
A new CD rooted firmly in the group's early music sounds with some romantic and even twenty-first century sounds.
The Final CD in John Lenahan’s John Ireland Project features a concerto with a love story?
The Norwegian composer talks about a new recording of his music by the Phoenix Chorale, "Northern Lights: Choral Works by Ola Gjeilo."
The group's mission is nothing short of building a standard and expansive repertoire for violin and guitar duos.
You can see the new gold plated instruments, but you have to imagine those Adidas sneakers.
"Happy Austria" was part of the Latin motto of the marrying rather than martial Austrian Habsburgs
I would say that Josh and I are interested in the beauty of the sounds that come from our respective instruments....Jeremy Denk
The title does invite 'shuffle' play, but the creators think they've dealt a well sorted hand.
With works ranging from bizarre and eerie to the downright depressing, this Halloween playlist comes out of the darkest shadows of classical music.
Also there were these catalogs of pieces by Weiss, so I had at least a sense of a taste preference.
"I wanted to appeal to the audience that still has affection for the music that Andres Segovia made so much a part of the repertoire."
We didn’t get Doc Seversen, but we had a young man named Vincent DiMartino and he’s gone on to become the famous Vincent DiMartino of the trumpet world.
In some pieces I have to think about organ sounds and effects and of course with the orchestra I’m always reminded of the expressive qualities of bowing
We recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and it sounded so great that it was inspiring.
Back to school never sounded so good. This month, Music Director David Wood has selected a new class of music for your consideration.