Classical Music Discoveries

On November 17, Cappella Records is proud to present the world première recording of DANIEL KNAGGS’ TWO STREAMS, performed by the GRAMMY® Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir led by Robert Simpson, with string ensemble Kinetic and world-class soloists.With musical threads dyed in Medieval, baroque, and contemporary colors, Knaggs’ 2021 cantata weaves a breathtaking tapestry, an exploration of love and mercy that gives profound meaning to the transitory nature of life.Two Streams is structured around the words of Polish nun Maria Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938). From a poor family that struggled during the years of the First World War, she joined the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy where she received heavenly messages to share with the world, inspiring this sublime music by Daniel Knaggs.Available on SACD and produced by multi-GRAMMY® Award winner Blanton Alspaugh and the team at SoundMirror.TracksDaniel Knaggs (b. 1983)Two StreamsPrologue (3:39)Thick Darkness (6:14)Song of Mercy I (3:11)Invocations (5:42)Only Love (3:32)Song of Mercy II (3:10)Merciful Heart (7:24)Meditation (6:11)Song of Mercy III (4:37)Mercy to Others (4:49)Mother of Mercy (6:15)Song of Mercy IV (4:32)Come, O Earth (5:08)Epilogue (5:29)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) This album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

Michael A. Muller’s meditative debut album Lower River explores the place where space, time, and self are occluded; a study in hearing versus listening and engaging with sounds that challenge what music ought to be. On 22 September 2023, the Balmorhea co-founder’s full-length solo album—originally released in 2019—will be reissued digitally by Deutsche Grammophon. The release will be followed on 20 October by DG’s reissue of Lower River Reworks, a companion album featuring re-imaginings of Muller’s tracks by specially commissioned artists. Each album has also been exclusively expanded, with the new track “Glyph III” added to Lower River and a new version of “Recedes” from German master minimalist Alva Noto added to Lower River Reworks. Masayoshi Fujita ReworkNew Symmetry - Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch ReworkGlyph I - Marcus Fischer ReworkHeather Woods Broderick, Elan Green - Seen - Saariselka ReworkGlyph II - Julia Kent ReworkElyria - Daigo Hanada ReworkFixed Shadow - David Moore & Bing & Ruth ReworkRecedes - Duane Pitre ReworkRecedesHelp support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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).

Symphony No. 2 in B Major, Op. 14 "To October"1. Largo2. Chorus "My schli, my prossili raboty i chleba"Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 20 "1st of May"3. Allegretto - Allegro4. Andante5. Allegro - Largo6. Moderato "The First of May"Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "The Year 1917"7. Revolutionary Petrograd8. Razliv9. Aurora10. The Dawn of HumanitySymphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 113 "Babi Yar"11. Babi Yar12. Humor13. In the Store14. Fears15. A Career

“My ultimate recommendation [for Górecki’s Symphony No. 3] goes not to Nonesuch’s success, but to the moving recording on Koch Schwann [reissued here on Alto] – this is heartfelt music-making, pure and simple, that succeeds admirably in conveying the sorrow of these aptly named songs. Koch also provides better value for money with their inclusion of the very approachable Three Pieces in Old Style. … [‘Totus Tuus’ is] a simple, fetching, unaccompanied motet, written for Pope John Paul’s visit to Poland.” -GramophoneTracksSymphony No. 3, Op. 36 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”I. Lento (24:23)II. Lento e Largo (8:34)III. Lento cantabile, semplice (12:14)Three Pieces in Olden StyleI. (3:19)II. (1:56)III. (3:16)Totus Tuus, Op. 60 (10:50)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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.

James Sedares and the Phoenix Symphony make a strong argument that Copland’s film music and opera suites are every bit as masterful as his most famous works. These works are coupled with Eduard Brunner’s atmospheric performance of Copland’s Clarinet Concerto.“Copland [in ‘The Red Pony’ is] displaying his simple gifts for the ready folk-tune and here the Phoenix woodwinds have what it takes. … It was interesting re-hearing his ‘Tender Land’ suite. So skillful is Copland’s orchestral transcription that one might easily be lulled into thinking this had been conceived solely for orchestra. As trumpets signal a new dawn over the open prairies, Laurie and Martin’s love blossoms in some of his most generous music outside ‘Appalachian Spring’. That evocative solo trumpet again leads the emotional surge. No problems with the barn dancing ‘Party Scene’. This is Steinbeck's country just as surely as is ‘The Red Pony’. [James ]Sedares leads a spirited rendition, his warm and willing woodwinds stealing the honors.” -GramophoneTracksThe Red Pony, Suite from the filmI. Morning on the Ranch (5:08)II. The Gift (5:13)III. Dream March (2:55)IV. Circus March (1:56)V. Walk to the Bunkhouse (3:05)VI. Grandfather’s Story (4:21)VII. Happy Ending (3:30)Three Latin-American SketchesEstribillo (3:12)Paisaje Mexicano (3:46)Danza de Jalisco (3:41)The Tender Land, Suite from the operaIntroduction and Love Music (10:22)Party Scene (4:51)Finale: The Promise of Living (6:13)Clarinet Concerto (14:57)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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.

Alto Records returns to international availability critically lauded recordings of three major works for violin and orchestra by late romantic composer Ottorino Respighi, a master of merging memorable melodies with lush, inventive scoring.TracksConcerto gregoriano, P 135I. Andante tranquillo (9:16)II. Andante espessivo e sostenuto (10:33)III. Finale (Alleluia). Allegro energico (12:36)Concerto all’antica, P 075I. Allegro (12:45)II. Adagio non troppo (8:44)III. Scherzo. Vivace – Tempo di minuetto – Vivace (9:14)Poema autunnale, P 146 (13:31)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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.

For the first time, four classic Prokofiev recordings by towering virtuoso Sviatoslav Richter are available, newly remastered by Paul Arden-Taylor.TracksPiano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14I. Allegro ma non troppo (6:13)II. Scherzo: Allegro marcato (1:47)III. Andante (4:58)IV. Vivace – Moderato – Vivace (4:17)Piano Sonata No. 9 in C Major, Op. 103I. Allegretto (7:38)II. Allegro strepitozo (2:54)III. Andante tranquillo (8:28)IV. Allegro con brio ma non troppo presto (5:19)Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Flat Major, Op. 10I. Allegro brioso (6:32)II. Andante assai (3:27)III. Allegro scherzando (4:02)Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major, Op. 55I. Allegro con brio (5:03)II. Moderato ben accentuato (4:01)III. Toccata (1:54)IV. Larghetto (6:42)V. Vivo (5:04)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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.

Mozart composed his first string quintet at age 17 and his last in the year of his death, so it might seem that he wrote string quintets across the span of his career, but that is not the case. His first quintet was a foray into new territory for the young composer, and then Mozart set the form aside for fourteen years — his final five quintets were all created in the last four years of his life. As such, they represent some of his most sophisticated musical thinking. They offer wonderful music, exhilarating to hear (and to play!), sometimes very moving, and always very beautiful. In his quintets, Mozart did not set out to make the viola the star, but the addition of the extra viola offered him a broader canvas and unlocked new possibilities. His quintets generate a richer, fuller sound….and they offer increased opportunities to contrast different groupings of instruments and sonorities….(two of these quintets are among his longest chamber works, longer in fact than any of his symphonies).TracksDisc 1String Quintet in B-Flat Major, K. 174 (26:43)I. Allegro Moderato (9:29)II. Adagio (7:19)III. Menuetto ma Allegro (4:03)IV. Allegro (5:54)String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 (36:39)I. Allegro (14:02)II. Menuetto: Allegretto (6:13)III. Andante (8:41)IV. Allegro (7:43)Disc 2String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 (34:09)I. Allegro (10:52)II. Menuetto: Allegretto (5:27)III. Adagio ma non troppo (7:59)IV. Adagio – Allegro (9:51)String Quintet in C Minor, K. 406 (K. 516b) (23:10)I. Allegro (8:55)II. Andante (3:57)III. Menuetto in canone (3:50)IV. Allegro (6:28)Disc 3String Quintet in D Major, K. 593 (27:04)I. Larghetto – Allegro (10:02)II. Adagio (6:23)III. Menuetto: Allegretto (5:24)IV. Allegro (5:16)String Quintet in E-Flat Major, K. 614 (24:45)I. Allegro di molto (7:39)II. Andante (7:22)III. Menuetto: Allegretto (4:07)IV. Allegro (5:36)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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.

SOMM RECORDINGS is delighted to announce the return of pianist Peter Donohoe to the label following his acclaimed complete survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas with a dazzling new recital coupling Rachmaninoff – on the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1873 – and Chopin.“Rachmaninoff is unimaginable without Chopin,” asserts Russian music expert Marina Frolova-Walker in authoritative booklet notes that point to Rachmaninoff’s long engagement with Chopin’s music in the concert hall and recording studio.TracksSergei RachmaninoffVariations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22 (28:57)Theme, Variations 1-10 (6:29)Variations 11-14 (6:33)Variations 15-18 (5:03)Variations 19-21 (5:01)Variation 22 (5:48)Frédéric ChopinPiano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 (25:31)I. Grave – Doppio movimento (8:19)II. Scherzo (6:35)III. Marche funèbre: Lento (8:53)IV. Finale: Presto (1:43)Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 (26:56)I. Allegro maestoso (9:29)II. Scherzo: Molto vivace (2:36)III. Largo (9:22)IV. Finale: Presto non tanto (5:27)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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.

Boult had led the UK premiere of Berg’s excoriating setting of Georg Büchner’s play about a war-scarred veteran driven to madness and murder in 1934, although only Act II of that performance survives. This complete 1949 recording with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Heinrich Nillius’s Wozzeck and Suzanne Danco’s Marie – only the second UK performance – adds to Boult’s and the opera’s stature on disc. Recorded live in London’s Royal Albert Hall, it is a remarkable document of an exhilarating performance.Boult’s pioneering championing of ‘new’ music is also heard in his recording of Stravinsky’s Capriccio, with the BBC SO and the prodigiously gifted Australian Noel Mewton-Wood taking the piano line.TracksCD1Alban Berg (1885-1935)Wozzeck, Op. 7, Act IScene 1: The Captain’s Room (8:25)Scene 2: An Open Field Outside the Town (6:33)Scene 3: Marie’s Room (7:54)Scene 4: The Doctor’s Study (7:20)Scene 5: Street Before Marie’s Door (3:12)Act IIScene 1: Marie’s Room (5:05)Scene 2: Street in Town (8:35)Scene 3: Street Before Marie’s Door (3:14)Scene 4: Tavern Garden (10:16)Scene 5: Guardroom in the Barracks (4:48)CD2Act IIIScene 1: Marie’s Room (4:56)Scene 2: Forest Path by the Pool (4:26)Scene 3: A Low Tavern (2:42)Scene 4: Forest Path by a Pool (4:42)Orchestral Interlude – Adagio (3:22)Scene 5: Street Before Marie’s Door (1:41)Sir Adrian Boult recalls his years with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, in conversation with Bernard Keeffe (9:17)Igor StravinskyCapriccio (16:54)I. Presto (6:32)II. Andante rapsodico (5:22)III. Allegro capriccioso ma tempo giusto (5:00)Ralph Vaughan WilliamsSymphony No. 4 in F Minor (32:52)I. Allegro (8:11)II. Andante moderato (10:07)III. Scherzo: Allegro molto (5:34)IV. Finale con epilogo fugato: Allegro molto (9:00)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @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.