Classical Music Discoveries

Some Favored Nook TracklistEric Nathan – Some Favored Nook (2019)Part I   1. To tell me what is true? [4:49]    2. The nearest dream recedes unrealized [2:45]    3. Could you tell me how to grow? [3:01]    4. They shut me up in Prose [3:53]    5. My barefoot rank is better [2:10]Part II   6. To see if we were growing [3:19]    7. War feels to me an oblique place [1:58]    8. There suddenly arose [2:45]      9. Emancipation [2:47]     10. All sounds ceased [2:54]      11. There came a wind like a bugle [1:54]     12. Attending to the wounded [2:18]      13. That shamed the nation [2:01] Part III   14. These are my introduction [5:51]      15. My Wars are laid away in Books / No Prisoner be [3:23] This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.

In celebration of Gwyn Pritchard’s 75th birthday, Métier releases Features and Formations: a fascinating insight into Pritchard’s creative process. This is contemporary, seemingly mercurial work, rich in structure. Starting from pre-compositional planning and techniques, the composer subtly evolves rhythm and pitch, to create a sound world that manifests great atmosphere and emotion.Features and Formations include five of Gwyn Pritchard’s ensemble works (a quintet, two quartets, and a trio) and three pieces for solo piano, all performed by the distinguished Swiss contemporary music group Ensemble ö! conducted by Francesc Prat, and the piano solos by their pianist Asia AhmetjanovaRealms Apart – Ensemble ö!Calling – Asia AhmetjanovaFeatures and Formations – Ensemble ö!From Time to Time – Asia AhmethanovaNightfall – Ensemble ö!Res – Ensemble ö!Evolution – Ensemble ö!Tide – Asia AhmetjanovaHelp 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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] This album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

A gratifyingly inventive listening experience, Ispilu marks the first recording of Basque accordionist Lore Amenabar Larrañaga's self-designed quarter-tone accordion, custom-built by Bugari Armando.Claudia Molitor (b. 1974) Fleeting Puddles (2022)David Gorton (b. 1978) Barafostus’ Dreame (2020)Donald Bousted (1957-2021) My Time is Your Time (2020)Mioko Yokoyama (b. 1989) Feast(2022) Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) Permissible Self-Expression(2021- 2022) Christopher Fox (b. 1955) Die Stimme der Stadt(2021) Electra Perivolaris (b. 1996) Crystalline Air (2022)Veli Kujala (b. 1976) L’eaurelle (2023)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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] This album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

Exploring the myriad ways that classical music is being created today, Perspectives features four new works written for – and with – Third Coast Percussion by Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Jlin, and Flutronix. Third Coast Percussion tours the program this season to the Windgate Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Central Arkansas (Sept. 21); Heindl Center for the Performing Arts at Northwest Mississippi Community College (Oct. 2); UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (Apr. 5); Montalvo Arts Center (Apr. 10); and Friends of Chamber Music Troy (Apr. 25). The Friends of Chamber Music Troy residency will also include an outdoor community performance of Terry Riley’s In C.Between Breaths Track ListMISSY MAZZOLI – Millennium Canticles (15:19)   1. Part 1: Famous Disaster Psalm (2:00)   2. Part 2: The Doubter’s Litany (2:33)   3. Part 3: Bloodied Bells (6:12)   4. Part 4: Choir of the Holy Locusts (2:47) 5 Part 5: Survival Psalm (1:47)THIRD COAST PERCUSSION – In Practice (17:06)   6. Part I (9:00)   7. Part II (8:06)8. TYONDAI BRAXTON – Sunny X (11:15)9. AYANNA WOODS – Triple Point (5:11)10. GEMMA PEACOCKE – Death Wish (9:43)Total Time: 58:58Help 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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.

The raw intensity of emotions in works like Aretusa, Satya I, and Il faudrait d’abord désespérer, where each note unfolds with hypnotic allure, envelops the listener in a world of transcendental states. Dive into the depths of Camus' "The Stranger" with Pour triumpher du soleil and À chaque épée de lumière– Dinescu's masterful use of sound effects challenges your comfort zone, evoking moments of scorching desperation and futile blankness, a testament to the composer's acute sensitivity.TracksAretusa (16:31)VistaI. La casa è mia e non è mia (1:33)II. Non è vero? Non è vero? (2:09)III. lo ne rimasti talmente impressionate che la notte me lo sognai (1:30)IV. Non voglio spiegare ciò che non si speiga (1:17)V. Allucinazioni (1:22)VI. Basta lasciamo andare (1:02)Satya I (6:48)Il faudrait d’abord désespérer (5:11)Für Uli (4:31)À chaque épée de lumière (9:46)Pour triompher du soleil (8:48)De-ale LupuluiI (3:10)II (3:06)III (3:09)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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

A captivating new album from the extraordinary talents of Edward Cowie, a true master of multiple disciplines. This remarkable polymath, renowned as a composer, visual artist, and natural scientist, has gifted us his exhilarating third epic cycle of 'bird portraits' - a thrilling 24-movement composition for clarinet(s) and piano.TracksCD 1Book 1American Fish Crow (4:30)Wood Thrush (3:03)Eastern Meadowlark (4:05)Common Loon (4:25)Belted Kingfisher (3:15)American Winter Wren (3:54)Book 2Broad-tailed and Blue-throated Hummingbirds (3:11)White-winged Dove (3:50)Common Nighthawk (4:39)Greater Roadrunner (2:09)Least Bittern (3:48)Great Horned Owl (2:38)CD 2Book 3Blue Jay (2:28)Mockingbird (3:55)Yellow Crowned Night Heron (3:46)Northern Goshawk (3:11)Say’s Phoebe (4:09)Red Winged Blackbird (3:23)Book 4Northern Cardinal (5:22)Virginia Rail (3:00)Turkey Vultures (4:20)Yellow-breasted Chat (3:25)Horned Lark (5:53)Bald Eagle (5:31)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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

Another source of pride and pleasure is that our September releases, between Toccata Classics and Toccata Next, bring our fourth release featuring the Swedish organist and composer Gunnar Idenstam, whose music I find enormously attractive. In 2019 Gunnar was commissioned to provide the music to a film, The Vegan Toothbrush, by the Norwegian film-maker Trygve Luktvasslimo, which takes seriously the issue of climate change itself but satirises the quasi-religious intensity of climate activists. Gunnar is one of the few remaining organists who maintain the centuries-old tradition of improvisation at the console, and his extemporizations for the film, all of which are concerned with water, developed into a kind of powerfully atmospheric sea symphony. The structure is underpinned by three ‘Chorale Preludes’. The recording was made on Gunnar’s own, personalised Quantum Q350 digital organ.TracksPrelude (1:38)Chorale Theme I (2:54)Water Vortex (0:51)Water Landscapes (3:25)Poem I (19:28)Chorale Theme II (5:43)Poem II (19:13)Bubbles (1:15)Chorale Theme III (2:10)Hymn (3:35)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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] This album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

Virko Baley was born in Ukraine in 1938, suffered a tumultuous childhood of displacement during the Second World War, and came to the USA as a refugee, with his family, in 1949, eventually making his home in Las Vegas. He has long been fascinated by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, as can be heard in the two moving works recorded here – one, Uniforms of Snow, an orchestral song-cycle setting her texts, the other a suite for violin and piano inspired by those settings. They display an acute ear for orchestral colour, a fondness for dramatic gesture and a strong sense of lyricism, occasionally inflected by distant echoes of Baley’s eastern European origins, the richness of the song-cycle placing him downstream from Mahler and Berg and the restraint of the Ten Songs without Words occasionally evoking Arvo Pärt. This recording provokes another pinch-me moment, since it brings the voice of Lucy Shelton into the Toccata fold. Virko Baley himself conducts the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and they are followed in the Ten Songs without Words by the violinist Karen Bentley Pollick and pianist Timothy Hoft.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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] This album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

While Rachel Barton Pine is widely known for her virtuosic and expressive performances of works from the Western classical music canon, she is also a heavy metal enthusiast and performer of the genre. Pine discovered her love for heavy metal as a teenager and later performed at rock radio stations where she would intersperse her own arrangements of her favorite metal songs by Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and Metallica with works by Paganini and Ysaÿe in order to introduce new listeners to classical music. From 2009–2014 she was a member of the acclaimed doom/thrash metal band Earthen Grave, playing 6-string electric violin. With Dependent Arising, Pine explores connections between modern classical music and heavy metal and showcases her own unique journey within these two seemingly disparate genres.Track Listing:1 Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 / I. Nocturne (11:33)2 II. Scherzo (6:22)3 III. Passacaglia (12:54)4 IV. Burlesque (4:54)5 Earl Maneein - Dependent Arising Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / I. Grasping at the self (14:06)6 II. The crows already knew of your grief. They will carry him home. (11:17)7 III. Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. (6:01)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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] This album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).

Quiet Rhythms is a piano cycle at once sprawling in scope and introspective in practice. Quiet Rhythms has the warmth and immediacy of a late-night improvisation—an artist following the melodies where they lead him. Quiet Rhythms brings together traditions Susman has spent a lifetime studying: the harmonic language of jazz, the rhythmic pulse of Latin music, the circling melodies of minimalism, the complex structures of medieval fugues, the ingenious simplicity of the American Popular Songbook.Track Listing:1 Quiet Rhythms No. 102 Quiet Rhythms No. 33 Quiet Rhythms No. 74 Quiet Rhythms No. 45 Quiet Rhythms No. 136 Quiet Rhythms No. 17 Quiet Rhythms No. 188 Quiet Rhythms No. 169 Quiet Rhythms No. 2010 Quiet Rhythms No. 2111 Quiet Rhythms No. 212 Quiet Rhythms No. 513 Quiet Rhythms No. 22Help 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 Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] This album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).