Classical Music Discoveries

When it comes to putting together a programme, Zsófia lets instinct guide her: “My choice of music repertory is intuitive. Pieces of music are like places for me, like spaces that I visit, step into and experience. They all have their own mood and colour, their own scent, their own pulse and a special effect on me. Each place calls for different forms of behaviour in me. Sometimes I am allowed to surrender myself freely to the moment, sometimes I channel a certain pulse and go with it. Elsewhere I just observe, I am a part of the space and adapt to the ‘local customs’, so I make an effort to follow the unwritten rules.”Track Listing:1 De reve et de pluie2 Salir adentro3 El abrazo4 Milonga5 Le secret d'Hiroshige6 Perle de Rosee7 Tormenta de ilusion (Ronroco)8 Le labyrinthe de Vermeer9 Berceuse10 Valse pour Camille11 El ultimo alientoHelp 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).

Lisa Reagan, former member of the Washington National Opera, has made another unexpected career turn with What We Need Is Here, to be released on October 6 by Stillpoint Records. The new album offers ten classic poems by noted poets, including Yeats, Frost, Keats, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare, set to original music she composed for the project. Lisa worked with Tony-award-winning and Grammy-nominated producer/orchestrator Jamshied Sharifi. The album also features the Celtic magic of special guest Seamus Egan, founding member of SolasLisa Reagan – What We Need Is Here track listingThe Owl – Arianrhod Bel-MooreI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – William WordsworthShall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day – William ShakespeareThe Peace of Wild Things – Wendell BerryStopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening – Robert FrostThe Road Not Taken – Robert FrostThe Two Trees – William Butler YeatsBright Star – John KeatsHe Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven – William Butler YeatsThe Wild Geese – Wendell BerryHelp 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).

The Alexander String Quartet and guitarist William Kanengiser form a dynamic collaboration that explores the music of Sting, Led Zeppelin, John Dowland and The Beatles by way of contemporary composers Ian Krouse, Dušan Bogdanović and Leo Brouwer.Track ListingLabyrinth (On a Theme of Led Zeppelin)Ian Krouse (20:23)Labyrinth, I: Theme, “Friends” by J. Page & R. PlantLabyrinth, II: L’istesso tempo, AdagioLabyrinth, III: Tempo 1Labyrinth, IV: Quasi PassacagliaLabyrinth, V: Lento ma sempre stringendo; Tempo 1–Quasi FugueLabyrinth, VI: ConclusionPrisms: Six Songs by StingSTING — Dušan Bogdanović (19:04)Prisms, 1: Every Breath You Take (Prelude)Prisms, 2: Message in a Bottle (Dance)Prisms, 3: Shape of My Heart (Ballad)Prisms, 4: Fields of Gold (Choral)Prisms, 5: Roxanne (Passacaglia)Prisms, 6: Desert Rose (Dance)Music in Four Sharps (On Dowland’s ‘Frog Galliard’)Ian Krouse (13:33)Music in Four Sharps (On Dowland’s ‘Frog Galliard’)From BeatlerianasLennon/McCartney — Léo Brouwer (14:10)Eleanor RigbyShe’s Leaving HomePenny LaneYesterdayHelp 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 label debut of the acclaimed British composer Howard Blake with a disc of his orchestral music to mark his 85th birthday.Blake himself is heard at the piano and conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, with Paul Daniel also conducting the English Northern Philharmonia.TracksSymphony No. 1: Impressions of a City, Op. 42/409 (1967, rev. 1990) (14:34)Concert Dances for piano and orchestra, Op. 432 (1992)I. Parade (0:55)II. Slow Ragtime (1:39)III. Jump (0:54)IV. Medium Rock (1:48)V. Folk Ballad (2:24)VI. Boogie (1:00)VII. Jazz Waltz (2:34)VIII. Cha-Cha (1:55)IX. Galop (0:53)The Court of Love, Op. 286 (1979)I. The Enchantress (Theme and Variations) (6:16)II. The Maiden and the Troubadour (Scherzo) (7:07)III. The Queen (Theme and Finale) (6:21)A Month in the Country, Op. 446 (1992)I. Larghetto (3:04)II. Alla marcia (1:21)III. Adagio (Elegy) (3:55)IV. Scherzando (1:36)V. Andante espressivo (3:11)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.

The history of music-making in Rome tends to focus on Renaissance polyphony, with an occasional nod to the Baroque thereafter. But thanks to composers like Giovanni Battista Casali (1715–92), choral music continued to flourish in Roman churches and other religious establishments in the eighteenth century, too, until Napoleon’s occupation broke many of its traditions. Casali’s music, though, is as good as unknown, and this pioneering recording reveals a composer at home in the galant style – with a surprising fondness for the occasional dissonance.TracksConfitebor tibi, Domine (2:02)Comedetis carnes (2:54)Adiuva nos, Deus (2:18)Improperium expectavit* (2:34)Tantum ergo (3:38)Christum regem adoremus (2:37)Ad te levavi (2:38)Ave Maria a4 (3:38)Exaltabo te (2:50)Hodie nobis de caelo (2:23)Quem vidistis pastores (2:36)Constitues eos (2:13)Ave Maria a8 (4:05)Justus ut palma (2:45)Scapulis suis (3:32)Caro mea, vere est cibus (3:18)Haec dies (2:39)Memoria fecit (Confitebor in D)(2:22)Gloria Patri (Confitebor in D) (3:26)All Except * First RecordingsHelp 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.

Harpist to Queen Victoria, the Welsh composer John Thomas (1826–1913) also wrote prolifically for his own instrument, both for solo harp and for duos of two harps or harp and piano – a combination where the different sounds of the two instruments enhance the clarity of the texture. Thomas’ original works use the elegant Romantic style of his own day, but he also left a generous legacy of transcriptions, especially of operatic favorites. Although some of his music was intended for the Victorian drawing room, other pieces require a virtuoso technique – and all of it has a thoroughly engaging melodic appeal.TracksCharles Gounod, arr. John ThomasSoldiers’ Chorus from Gounod’s Faust (2:48)Charles Gounod, arr. John Thomas and Julius BenedictDuet on Subjects from Gounod’s Faust (1869) (8:41)Giuseppe Verdi arr. John ThomasSix Gems from Verdi’s Operas (publ. 1857) (32:41)No. 1 ‘Miserere’ and ‘Tu vedrai che amore in terra’ from Il trovatore (7:24)No. 2 ‘Il balen’ and ‘Di tale amor’ from Il trovatore (4:25)No. 3 ‘Or co’ dadi’, ‘Squilli, echeggi la tromba’ and ‘Sì, la stanchezza m’opprime’ from Il trovatore (6:19)No. 4 ‘D’amor sull’alo rosee’ and ‘Di quella pira’ from Il trovatore (5:36)No. 5 ‘Un dì, se ben rammentomi’ (Quartet) from Rigoletto (5:16)No. 6 La Sicilienne (Boléro) from Les vêpres siciliennes (3:41)Gioachino Rossini arr. John ThomasPrayer from Mosè in Egitto (arr. 1884) (5:22)John ThomasLe Désir. Rhapsody (1892) (4:41)Coronation March (1902) (3:57)Luigi Venzano arr. John ThomasLa Gassier Valse (arr. 1858) (2:45)First RecordingsHelp 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.

The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. This first-ever complete recording of all his German-language Lieder – setting folksongs as well as more recent Romantic poetry – shows him bridging both French and German traditions with a style somewhere between Fauré and Brahms. Written early in Jaques-Dalcroze’s career, these songs span a wide range of emotions, from innocent rural idylls to the contemplation of existential painand heartache.TracksSechs Lieder, Op. 14 (publ. 1892) (11:47)No. 1 Hochzeitslied (1:18)No. 2 Wie lan’ die Nacht (3:01)No. 3 Rosenzeit, wie schnell vorbei (1:49)No. 4 Lied des Alten (1:57)No. 5 Die Glocken läuten (1:48)No. 6 Hast du von den Fischerkindern (1:54)Sechs Lieder, Op. 15 (publ. 1892) (8:46)No. 1 Lied des Glücklichen (1:29)No. 2 Kindergebet (1:20)No. 3 In der Fremde (1:30)No. 4 Ich nehm’ es leicht (0:59)No. 5 Lieb’ Liebchen (1:22)No. 6 Als schweigend ich die rothe Rose (2:06)Zehn Lieder (publ. 1913) (22:57)No. 1 Gruss (2:55)No. 2 Schmied Schmerz (2:31)No. 3 Regenlied (2:20)No. 4 Entzückung (2:08)No. 5 Hat gesagt – bleibt’s nicht dabei (2:07)No. 6 Das Lied von ferne (2:06)No. 7 Gewitter (1:25)No. 8 Spinn, Mägdlein, spinn! (2:19)No. 9 Wenn’s dämmert (3:24)No. 10 Spinnerlied (1:42)Zwei Gesänge (publ. 1913) (7:14)No. 1 Gemachte Blumen (3:47)No. 2 Frommer Tanz (Mai-Fest) (3:27)First RecordingsHelp 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.

Leo Ornstein is as well known for his extraordinary longevity as for his music: he was born in Ukraine in 1893 and died in Wisconsin in 2002, aged at least 108. His generous output of music, much of it for the piano, his own instrument, remains poorly known, although it can stand shoulder to shoulder with that of many better-known names. Some of the pieces here – which cover a span of over 60 years – have their roots in Debussy, Skryabin, and Szymanowski, but Ornstein welds those influences into an edgy, energetic language very much his own. The Three Moods of c. 1914 are anger, grief, and joy, but there is strength of feeling in all the music to be heard here. Indeed, the Nine Vignettes bear a misleading title: they are substantial and powerful virtuoso essays that can flare up into moments of startling power and violence; hitherto unknown, they constitute a major contribution to the piano literature.TracksNine Vignettes, s380 (1977) (34:39)No. 1 Moderato (4:49)No. 2 Con Moto (3:08)No. 3 Moderato (3:21)No. 4 Animato (4:26)No. 5 Moderato (2:09)No. 6 Allegro (3:30)No. 7 Animato (4:15)No. 8 Moderato (3:15)No. 9 Moderato con moto (5:46)Bagatelle, s100 (1952) (1:30)A Moment of Retrospect, s156 (?1950s) (4:45)The Cathedral, s73 (1916) (2:50)Nocturne, No. 1, s153 (c. 1922) (8:47)Three Moods, s5 (c. 1914)* (11:13)No. 1 Anger: Agitato (2:38)No. 2 Grief (5:32)No. 3 Joy: Presto (3:03)All Except * First Recordings*First Digital RecordingHelp 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.

On Friday, November 3, 2023, Scribe Records releases Penitence & Lamentation, the Byrd Ensemble’s new album marking 400 years since the death of its namesake, William Byrd, and coinciding with Byrd Ensemble’s 20th anniversary season. Praised for their “rich, full-voiced, and perfectly blended” (Early Music America) sound, the Byrd Ensemble’s new project focuses on the unifying theme of guilt and grief, forming a collection of songs by Byrd and his contemporaries; Thomas Tallis’s monumental 40-part motet, Spem in alium; and the world premiere recording of Nico Muhly’s Fallings (2023), based on Byrd's motet, Ne irascaris Domine. The album’s first single, Nicolas Gombert’s Lugebat David Absalon, will be released on all streaming services on October 13. Penitence & Lamentation Album Tracklist1. Nicolas Gombert – Lugebat David Absalon [8:20]2. William Byrd – Domine secumdum actum meum [6:52]3. Thomas Tallis – In jejunio et fletu  [4:06]4. Thomas Tallis – Absterge Domine  [5:33]5. Thomas Crecquillon – Pater paccavi [8:36]6. Robert Ramsey – How are the mighty fallen  [5:14]7. William Byrd – Emendemus in melius [3:17]8. William Byrd – Ye sacred muses  [3:09]9. William Byrd – Ne irascaris Domine [7:56]10. Nico Muhly – Fallings (2023) (World Premiere Recording) [7:00]11. Robert Carver – O bone Jesu [12:36]This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.

Heinrich Schütz (18 October 1585 – 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the Early Baroque. Most of his surviving music was written for the Lutheran church, primarily for the Electoral Chapel in Dresden. He wrote what is traditionally considered the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost, along with nearly all of his ceremonial and theatrical scores. Schütz was a prolific composer, with more than 500 surviving works.TracklistO primavera, SWV 1O dolcezze amarissime, SWV 2Selve beate, SWV 3Alma afflitta, SWV 4Così morir debb'io, SWV 5D'orrida selce alpina, SWV 6Ride la primavera, SWV 7Fuggi o mio core, SWV 8Feritevi, ferite, SWV 9Flamma ch'allacia, SWV 10Quella damma son io, SWV 11Mi saluta costei, SWV 12Io moro, eccho ch'io moro, SWV 13Sospir che del bel petto, SWV 14Dunque addio, SWV 15Tornate, o cari baci, SWV 16Di marmo siete voi, SWV 17Giunto è pur, Lidia, SWV 18Vasto mar, SWV 19