Joseph Hallman - "Three Hornik Songs," mvmt 1
Abigail Haynes Lennox (Soprano)
Inscape Chamber Ensemble (Ensemble)
Joseph Hallman - Essay for violin and piano
Nicholas DiEugenio (Violin)
Evan Fein (Piano)
Joseph Hallman - "jackanape" from "compliments" for string quartet
Boguslav Quartet (Quartet)
December 28, 2009. From recent uploads.
The New York-based pianist and composer Jeffrey Biegel uploaded a number of performances, including three piano concertos: the Tchaikovsky First, Rachmaninov Third, and Prokofiev Third. Just as a sample, we included Franz Liszt's Sonetto del Petrarca no. 104 in E Major in the playlist. There's much more in the library, so please browse. The pianist Beth Levin uploaded a major piece: Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, his last large-scale piano composition. (Don't miss Ms. Levin's very interesting liner notes to the Diabelli, which are on the Details page). Lasting about 60 minutes, the Diabelli requires a separate hearing, but Ms. Levin also uploaded an encore, Mozart's Fantasy no. 3 in d minor, which we also included in the playlist. And to conclude, from a recent concert by the flutist Jessica Warren-Acosta, Henri Dutilleux's Sonatine. To listen, click here.
Henri Dutilleux - Sonatine
Jessica Warren-Acosta (Flute)
Kuang-Hao Huang (Piano)
Joseph Hallman - Mother heroic
Brenda Watson (Soprano)
Boguslav Quartet (Quartet)
Cicilia Yudha (Celeste)
Joseph Hallman - Divine Discontent, A Concertino for English Horn and Ensemble
Elizabeth Starr-Masoudnia (English Horn)
Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra (Ensemble)
From our Historical Interviews:
Bruce Duffie talks with the oboist Alex Klein
Bruce Duffie: ...When someone plays a recording, it will be exactly the same thing every time it’s played. Is there any ambiguity for you when you make a recording?
Alex Klein: My recordings are not as authentic as a live performance, because I realize it’s going to be listened to several times, and analyzed as a document. A recording is a document. It’s something that I write down in my computer, and then I do a spell-checker, and then I come back to the next day and revise one paragraph. We cut and paste. We say, “Well in this passage, by the time we played it the fifth time it got a little bit better, so let’s paste that one in.” So we create a document that can be published. It lacks the authenticity, but it still carries a lot of information. If people like the recording, they’ll probably like a live performance better in terms of carrying emotions. But a live performance can never carry as much information as a document.
BD: So they’re two separate things that should exist in parallel?
AK: Yeah, exactly....
December 21, 2009. Season's greetings!
We wish all our listeners and all the talented musicians who contribute their music to our site a joyous holiday season! In this spirit, we present three pieces. First, The National_Collegiate_Chorale_of_Scotland sings O Magnum Mysterium by the American composer Morten Lauridsen. Then the pianist Minju Choi plays Regard de première communion de la Vierge, from Vingt Regard sur l'Enfant Jésus by Olivier Messiaen. And we'll finish with the wonderful kids of Brighton School Chamber Choir singing Benjamin Britten's Wolcum Yule. Happy Holidays – and click here to listen!
Gary Noland - "Gillygalay" (Op. 71, No. 2) from "24 Postludes" for piano
Gary Noland (Piano)