Podcast of the Week

Notker Balbulus - Liber ymnorum

Notker Balbulus - Liber ymnorum

Travel back more than a thousand years in our latest podcast to experience Notker the Stammerer's fluent way with mediaeval plainsong, and scholarship's solutions to performance practice mysteries.

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Staff Pick of the Week

Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle / Giancarlo, Guerrero, Jacobs, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle / Giancarlo, Guerrero, Jacobs, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Michael Daugherty creates colorful musical portraits in this recording, featuring larger-than-life personalities drawn from 20th-century American culture. Tales of Hemingway is a dramatic cello concerto, evoking the turbulent life, adventures and literature of author Ernest Hemingway. American Gothic is a dynamic concerto for orchestra, reflecting on the creative world of Iowa artist Grant Wood. Once Upon a Castle is a virtuosic sinfonia concertante for organ and orchestra, inspired by the rich history of the Hearst Castle, built lhigh upon the California Pacific coast by billionaire Randolph Hearst

Special Highlight of the Week

Daugherty: Blue Electra / Meyers, Miller, Albany Symphony

Daugherty: Blue Electra / Meyers, Miller, Albany Symphony

American composer Michael Daugherty, explores the triumphs and tragedies of flight. Blue Electra is a dramatic violin concerto inspired by the sensational life and mysterious disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart in 1937. Last Dance at the Surf is a one-movement dance symphony for orchestra that reflects upon rock 'n roll legend Buddy Holly's final performance in 1959 at the Surf Ballroom in Iowa and his tragic death in a plane crash just hours after his show. To the New World for orchestra celebrates the triumphant Apollo 11 moon mission in 1969 and Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk.

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    Pianist Luisa Imorde, deeply inspired by Brahms, presents an album of his works, contextualizing his music with pieces that influenced him, like those by Bach and other Baroque composers. Through her sensible and virtuosic playing...


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    In the early 1960s, four young musicians who had been playing chamber music at Rudolf Serkin’s Marlboro School and Festival in Vermont were encouraged to form a string quartet. In July 1964, the Guarneri Quartet...


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    Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage. Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human...


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    In August 2023, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival featured a performance of a Baroque jewel, the three-act opera La fida ninfa (The faithful nymph), which Antonio Vivaldi premiered on 6 January 1732 in Verona and...


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  • Ferenc Farkas: Piano Works, Vol. 2 - Stefano Cascioli (piano

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    Ferenc Farkas and the French Style While the first volume devoted to the piano works of Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905- 2000), released by Stradivarius in 2023, contained pieces inspired by Italian culture, the second...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 04, 2025

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