Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music

Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music episodes:

• 08.05.2013

  Incantations & Inspirations

  "Vivaldiana" is one of our most popular pieces, people really get it!

  
• 07.29.2013

  Piano Phantoms

  Pianist Michael Lewin presents a recording of ghouls, ghosts and goblins with plenty of lead time for the Halloween season.

  
• 07.08.2013

  Seraphic Fire: Music With A Visceral, Tenacious Connection

  Seraphic Fire distills eleven season of performances for one CD.

  
• 06.24.2013

  Icelandic Violin Duos

  The combination of the artistry of a maker, performers and composers, ...that's something special.

  
• 06.10.2013

  Fauré: 13 Barcarolles; Dolly

  "Fauré has a way of exploring all kinds of harmonic possibilities," Sally Pinkas

  
• 06.03.2013

  The Lotus Pond: Exotic Oboe Sounds

  "There's a way to impact people with the language of music, that we simply cannot do with words!"

  
• 01.21.2013

  La Viola: Music for Viola And Piano By Women Composers

  All the composers are women, but Herndon doesn’t think there’s a specially ‘womanly touch.’

  
• 08.20.2012

  Adam Gyorgy Plays Liszt, Bach, And Mozart

  My favorite pieces on the CD just talk about me and my life’s journey.

  
• 08.13.2012

  Piffaro ‘Los Ministriles In The New World’

  Then we added other winds like the sackbuts to create what was the premiere instrumental ensemble of the period in the Renaissance.

  
• 08.06.2012

  Saros, A Cycle Named After A Cycle

  "This was a chance for me to put together chamber works that were recently written."

  
• 08.02.2012

  Edward Auer With Chopin In Good Company

  Needless to say the string quartets in the world have certainly not played a whole lot of Chopin .

  
• 06.25.2012

  Love Raise Your Voice

  "The project was really about finding music that we liked and that was different," Christine Howlett.

  
• 06.11.2012

  Les Grâces Françoises: Music Of The French Baroque

  "Our theme for the CD was "graces" or ornaments and these pieces are all about ornaments."

  
• 06.04.2012

  Overheard: New Music For Oboe And English Horn

  " I don’t necessarily see the images when I’m playing, but I do react to the feelings." Michele Fiala

  
• 05.13.2012

  William Lawes, A Magnetic Figure

  There are some excruciatingly angst-like harmonies and there’s also some very playful stuff !

  
• 05.06.2012

  Chanticleer’s ‘Love Story’

  A new CD rooted firmly in the group's early music sounds with some romantic and even twenty-first century sounds.

  
• 04.22.2012

  John Ireland Solo Piano Music, Volume IV

  The Final CD in John Lenahan’s John Ireland Project features a concerto with a love story?

  
• 04.08.2012

  A Storytelling Trumpeter

  I'm the storyteller with the notes, but the listeners add their own words!

  
• 04.01.2012

  Paysages: Debussy, Messiaen & Fauré

  When it comes together, it's an awful lot of fun!

  
• 03.28.2012

  Horizons In Music – Choral Works By Ola Gjeilo

  The Norwegian composer talks about a new recording of his music by the Phoenix Chorale, "Northern Lights: Choral Works by Ola Gjeilo."

  
• 03.26.2012

  Duo Sonidos: A Pairing By Chance, A Mission By Design

  The group's mission is nothing short of building a standard and expansive repertoire for violin and guitar duos.

  
• 03.19.2012

  The Canadian Brass Takes Flight

  You can see the new gold plated instruments, but you have to imagine those Adidas sneakers.

  
• 03.11.2012

  ‘Dowland In Dublin’: Celtic Flavor In An English Player

  Perhaps not semper dolans, but semper O'Dolan?

  
• 03.04.2012

  Bach Sonatas

  Violinist leaves 'sichord' out of harpsichord for recording session.

  
• 02.26.2012

  Felix Austria

  "Happy Austria" was part of the Latin motto of the marrying rather than martial Austrian Habsburgs

  
• 02.20.2012

  @bach: A Live And Lively Recording Of Johann Sebastian

  I never think it should be played the same way twice.

  
• 02.12.2012

  Modern American Bass

  Music for the instrument before and after "the explosion" of the 70s.

  
• 01.09.2012

  French Impressions: Saint-Saëns, Franck, Ravel

  I would say that Josh and I are interested in the beauty of the sounds that come from our respective instruments....Jeremy Denk

  
• 12.26.2011

  Shuffle.Play.Listen

  The title does invite 'shuffle' play, but the creators think they've dealt a well sorted hand.

  
• 12.16.2011

  Capricho Latino

  A tour of Latin-flavored music for solo violin that grew out of a cruise.

  
• 11.14.2011

  13 Ways Of Looking At The Goldberg

  "Making the world safe for classical music, one note at a time." Lara Downes goal!

  
• 09.27.2011

  A Geeky Musical Version Of ‘Bones’

  Also there were these catalogs of pieces by Weiss, so I had at least a sense of a taste preference.

  
• 08.29.2011

  Music With A Spanish, Portuguese, And English Accent

  "I wanted to appeal to the audience that still has affection for the music that Andres Segovia made so much a part of the repertoire."

  
• 08.22.2011

  Reflections On ‘Fanfare, Capriccio And Rhapsody’

  We didn’t get Doc Seversen, but we had a young man named Vincent DiMartino and he’s gone on to become the famous Vincent DiMartino of the trumpet world.

  
• 04.04.2011

  Bach’s Strange Beauty

  In some pieces I have to think about organ sounds and effects and of course with the orchestra I’m always reminded of the expressive qualities of bowing

  
• 01.06.2011

  Jubilant Sykes Sings Copland And Spirituals

  We recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and it sounded so great that it was inspiring.