Classical Music Discoveries

H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] 

My odyssey with Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata (1945-1946) began in the Summer of 201 7. While this work is widely regarded as an early example of his mature style, Carter's Piano Sonata still sounded incredibly modern to me at first. With that said, beneath its remark­ ably contrapuntal complexity, I discovered a highly dramatic work encompassing a deeply profound emotional depth. As the work was composed with World War II in recent memory, I can only continue to speculate how it affected Carter, and in turn, the Piano Sonata.Carter: Piano SonataHo: Inner States of MindRachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36Purchase the music (without talk) at:Nicholas Ho - Illumine (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber 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).

Balmorhea’s Deutsche Grammophon debut album, The Wind, moved reviewers and listeners alike with its contemplative blend of ambient and electronic sounds. The Wind – Deluxe, set for digital release on 22 July 2022, offers the chance to discover four previously unreleased tracks from the Texas-based duo’s original sessions. It also includes remixes by Canadian avant-garde composer and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Shabason and the London-based Portico Quartet, together with Christian Badzura’s elegiac rework of “Nos”.Track Listing:1 Day Dawns in Your Right Eye2 Rose in Abstract3 La Vagabonde4 Landlessness5 Evening6 The Myth7 V8 Ne Plus Ultra9 Nos10 Vent Pontian11 The Crush12 Night Falls in Your Left13 Rose In Abstract - Piano Version14 Arles15 Otherness16 Nos Nos17 La Vagabonde - Joseph Shabason Remix18 Rose in Abstract - Portico Quartet Remix19 Nos - C_B_ ReworkPurchase the music (without talk) at:The Wind (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber 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).  

GRAMMY-nominated violist and composer Nick Revel, a founding member of the PUBLIQuartet, releases his second album, Dream Collider, on Sapphire Records. With styles leaning heavily on both pop-inspired electronic music and ambient-style film music, Revel leads the listener on a journey that questions the traditional sound of the viola. Revel describes his process of writing, producing, and creating this album during the pandemic, “Born of my own emotional darkness and a yearning for joy during the height of the pandemic, this album provides a sonic fantasy of new worlds, a reprieve from suffering, and visions of realities beyond what is currently possible on Earth.”Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.

Son of Cornwall is a feature documentary about the world-renowned opera tenor John Treleaven. During his forty-year career, he performed in many of the greatest operas including Siegfried, Tannhauser, Carmen, and La Boheme. In the documentary directed by John's son Lawrence Richards, the two of them take a trip to Treleaven's native homeland in Cornwall England. During their journey, John shares with Lawrence the places that helped shape him as a performer while also passing down his own knowledge and insight to Lawrence about the joys and struggles of pursuing the life of an artist.TracklistWintersturme from Die WalkureSiegfriedPorthleven SongI Survey the Wondrous CrossTannhauserChurch SongSoave fanciulla Sally n' JohnFor You AloneYou are My Heart's DelightWatch the documentary on Tubi at:Watch Son of Cornwall (2022) - Free Movies | Tubi (tubitv.com)Purchase the soundtrack at:Watch Son of Cornwall | Prime Video (amazon.co.uk)Stream at:Son of Cornwall - SWR FernsehenHoopla (USA only)Son of Cornwall (2020) Movie - hoopla (hoopladigital.com)

A soloist in the GRAMMY® winning album Duruflé: The Complete Choral Works, Cecilia has been praised by The New York Times as “A creamy voiced mezzo­soprano.” Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, Cecilia is a versatile singer that has performed around the world singing a variety of music styles, with a focus on early and contemporary music. Cecilia has been greatly recognized for creating the role of Renata in the first Mariachi Opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna with the famous Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera in 2010. Cecilia has taken this opera to many stages around the world. She is reprising the role of Renata with Houston Grand Opera this December in the opera El Milagro del Recuerdo, along with musicians who also perform on Reencuentros.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Reencuentros (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber 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).

Fortune dealt Hans Rott a cruel hand. The Austrian composer, born in Vienna in 1858, struggled as a freelance musician and died at the age of twenty-five soon after succumbing to mental illness. Rott’s name lives on thanks to his Symphony No. 1 in E major and receives top billing in a new recording of the work by the Bamberger Symphoniker and its Chief Conductor Jakub Hruša. They complete their program with the Symphonic Prelude by Rott’s organ teacher Anton Bruckner and “Blumine” by his friend and fellow Vienna Conservatory student Gustav Mahler.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1 in E Major (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber 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).

The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences and critics. Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for 363 performances.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Gilbert and Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected]

The album, recorded at the Convocation Hall of the University of Alberta in Canada, explores a nationalist-inspired repertoire, composed at different times and by different creative personalities. Presenting musical elements that refer to the traditions of folklore and popular Brazilian rhythms, Sonata Para Viola e Piano by Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (written in 1950), Três Valsas Brasileiras by Francisco Mignone (1968), Sonata by Radamés Gnattali (1969) and Sonata No. 2 by Claudio Santoro (1982), highlights the vision of the violist, from the unusual choice of repertoire to her precise and exquisite interpretations.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Amoroso (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] album is broadcast with the permission of Bárbara Leu from Azul Music.        

Smith says, “When a wave begins, it gathers momentum, so with this collection of music I see a gathering of energy into our modern era. I perceive this momentum in each of these composers’ works as propelling the arts forward in their time… And so, we continue today in the wave of momentum which began long ago.”Momentum Track ListSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 119     1. I. Andante grave [11:59]     2. II. Moderato [5:07]     3. III. Allegro ma non troppo [8:23]Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971) – Suite Italienne     4. I. Introduzione [2:25]     5. II. Serenata [3:16]     6. III. Aria [5:21]    7. IV. Tarantella [2:20]     8. V. Minuetto e Finale [4:48]Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) – Trois Pièces pour violoncelle et piano     9. I. Modéré [3:10]     10. II. Sans vitesse et à l’aise [1:49]    11. III. Vite et nerveusement rythmé [2:46]Total Time: 51:24Purchase the music (without talk) at:Momentum (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.