Classical Music Discoveries

In 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. Nonetheless, he has made a number of recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, including this one here with works by Robert Schumann, recorded in 1988 and now available for the first time in the digital supply chain.Works include Schumann’s highly acclaimed Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15, Arabeske in C major, Op. 18 and his piano cycle Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Scenes from Vienna), Op. 26.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). 

Composer 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 with patterns of tone and noise and computational techniques in art-making practices. Using audio-responsive software to control hand-woven patterns on the loom and an audio synthesis program developed by the duo, they created an interdisciplinary method of art creation that fueled the album’s production and concept.between systems and grounds - the overshot sessions Tracklist1. Fitch Wyllys [4:00]2. [in] [17:40]3. Mise-En [17:53]4. [out] [5:38]5. in memoriam [19:58]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 broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.

The 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. Vorspiel: Allegro moderato2 II. Adagio3 III. Finale: Allegro energico4 Florence B. Price: Adoration arr. Jim Gray5 Florence B. Price: Violin Concerto No.1 in D / I. Tempo moderato6 II. Andante7 III. Allegro8 Florence B. Price: Violin Concerto No.2 15.52Help 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 Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).

Track Listings1 Drums of War - By The Old Bethpage Brass Band - Old Bethpage Brass Band2 Oliver Wendell Holmes - By Paul Roebling - Oliver Wendall Holmes3 Ashokan Farewell - By Jay Ungar, Evan Stover, Matt Glaser, Molly Mason, Russ Barenberg - NA4 Battle Cry of Freedom - By Jaqueline Schwab - NA5 We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder - By Bernice Johnson Reagon - NA6 Dixie / Bonnie Blue Flag - By The New American Brass Band - The New American Brass Band7 Cheer Boys Cheer - By The New American Brass Band - The New American Brass Band8 Angel Band - By Molly Mason, Ruth Barenberg - Russ Barenburg/Molly Manson9 Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier - By Jaqueline Schwab - Jacqueline Schwab/Jesse Carr10 Lorena - By Jay Ungar, Matt Glaser, Molly Mason - Matt Glaser/Jay Ungar/Molly Manson11 Parade - By The New American Brass Band - The New American Brass Band12 Hail Columbia - By The New American Brass Band - The New American Brass Band13 Dixie - By Bobby Horton - Bobby Horton14 Kingdom Coming - By Art Baron, Jay Ungar, Matt Glaser - Matt Glaser/Jay Ungar/Art Baron16 All Quiet on the Potomac - By Jaqueline Schwab - Jacqueline Schwab17 Flag of Columbia - By Jaqueline Schwab - Jacqueline Schwab18 Weeping Sad and Lonely - By Jaqueline Schwab, Jesse Carr, Peggy James - Peggy James/Jacqueline Schwab/Jesse Carr19 Yankee Doodle - By The Old Bethpage Brass Band - The Old Bethpage Brass Band20 Palmyra Schottische - By The New American Brass Band - The New American Brass Band21 When Johnny Comes Marching Home - By The Old Bethpage Brass Band - The Old Bethpage Brass Band22 Shenandoah - By John Colby, John Levy - John Levy/John Colby23 When Johnny Comes Marching Home - By Jaqueline Schwab, Jay Ungar, Matt Glaser, Molly Mason, Peter Amidon, Yonatin Matlin - M. Glaser/Y. Malin/J. Schwab/M. Manson/P. Amidon/24 Marching Through Georgia - By Jay Ungar, Matt Glaser, Molly Mason, Peter Amidon - M. Glaser/J. Ungar/M. Manson/P. Amidon25 Marching Through Georgia (Lament) - By Jaqueline Schwab - Jacqueline Schwab26 Battle Cry of Freedom II - By Jaqueline Schwab - Jacqueline Schwab27 Battle Hymn of the Republic - By The Abyssinian Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir28 Ashokan Farewell / Sullivan Ballou Letter - By David McCullough, Paul Roebling - Paul Roebling/David McCulloughHelp 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]

Composer 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 that makes for a vicariously exciting listening experience.For more information about this album, please visit Virtuoso Piano Works – Navona RecordsThis broadcast is sponsored by ‎Introducing Apple Music Classical on Apple Music

Giulio 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 subsequent opera seasons, and is now one of the most often performed Baroque operas.The opera's plot is loosely based on historic events during the Roman Civil War of 49–45 BC.Kathryn Cavanaugh, conductorCMD Grand Opera Company of VeniceHelp 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]

GRAMMY-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, Curtis Stewart celebrates the perseverance of Kurtis-Stewart, a violinist and composer herself. Recorded in his late mother’s Upper West Side, Manhattan, apartment  — the apartment where Stewart was raised, the apartment where he cared for his mom during her dying days — of Love. is a requiem to cherish life, time, and lifetimes.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 broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.

Isata 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 up with lots of games together! Long, elaborate games often involve running around the house and making up stories. Dohnányi’s ‘Variations on a Nursery Tune’ is where this album all began. I heard it live in a concert, years ago, but knew nothing about it, not even its name: I thought it must be a Dohnányi concerto, so it was such a surprise finding out what it was. I had to play this piece. It’s so humorous, so exciting. I had such a strong reaction to it! Mozart’s Twelve Variations on ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’ was a natural twinning and it’s also a piece that I played in my childhood. It fitted very naturally, and it was lovely re-learning it.”Track Listing:1 Mozart: 12 Variations on ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' in C major, K265 / Var. 12 Var. 23 Var. 34 Var. 45 Var. 56 Var. 67 Var. 78 Var. 89 Var. 910 Var. 1011 Var. 1112 Var. 1213 Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25 / Theme. Allegro14 Var. 1. Poco più mosso15 Var. 2. Risoluto16 Var. 3. L'istesso tempo17 Var. 4. Molto meno mosso (Allegretto moderato)18 Var. 5. Più mosso19 Var. 6. Ancora più mosso (Allegro)20 Var. 7. Walzer (Tempo giusto)21 Var. 8. Alla marcia (Allegro moderato)22 Var. 9. Presto - Andante rubato23 Var. 10. Passacaglia (Adagio non troppo)24 Var. 11. Choral (Maestoso)25 Finale fugato. Allegro vivace26 Debussy: Children's Corner / I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum27 II. Jimbo's Lullaby28 III. Serenade for the Doll29 IV. The Snow Is Dancing30 V. The Little Shepherd31 VI. Cakewalk32 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 / No. 1, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen33 No. 2, Kuriose Geschichte34 No. 3, Hasche-Mann35 No. 4, Bittendes Kind36 No. 5, Glückes genug37 No. 6, Wichtige Begebenheit38 No. 7, Träumerei39 No. 8, Am Kamin40 No. 9, Ritter vom Steckenpferd41 No. 10, Fast zu ernst42 No. 11, Fürchtenmachen43 No. 12, Kind im Einschlummern44 No. 13, Der Dichter sprichtHelp 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 Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).   

In 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 inspiration in Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Danseuses de Delphes. On the other hand, Sabiá, Saudade do Brasil, another segment of the suite, brings a melody in sixths that recalls the roots of Southeastern Brazilian music, and it also turns its attention to the sabiá and - in dialogue with Gonçalves Dias (1823-1864), Tom Jobim (1927-1994), and Chico Buarque (1944) - to its presence in national art. A piece with ironic verve, Em Três, Op. 7, reexamines the waltz. It subverts some of its usual conventions, aiming to gently push the listener away from a comfort zone within the traditional dance. In Variations on a High School Hymn, Caramuru takes a school anthem as the theme. In this composition, he constructs four brief variations. The fifth and final variation expands and stretches the original melody. These two pieces, in particular, illustrate but do not exhaust, the imaginative palette of the album, which is filled with sonic, conceptual, and inspirational contrasts.Tracks1. The Wings Suite, Op. 16, No. 1: Cicada (03:54)2. The Wings Suite, Op. 16, No. 5: Quero-quero (03:12)3. The Wings Suite, Op. 16, No. 6: Tangará (03:47)4. The Wings Suite, Op. 16, No. 8: Sabiá, Saudade do Brasil (03:59)5. Flanando, Op. 6 (04:12)6. Em três, Op. 7 (03:40)7. Lullaby (04:11)8. Variations on a High School Hymn: Theme (00:29)9. Variations on a High School Hymn: Variation 1 (00:35)10. Variations on a High School Hymn: Variation 2 (00:35)11. Variations on a High School Hymn: Variation 3 (00:32)12. Variations on a High School Hymn: Variation 4 (00:42)13. Variations on a High School Hymn: Variation 5 (03:42)14. Puzzle (01:00)15. I Will (01:41)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 Bárbara Leu from Azul Music.         

As 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.Prélude à l'après-midi d'un fauneNocturnesDances for Harp and StringsLa MerHelp 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]