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Stories for November 13, 2019



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    Posted At : November 12, 2019 12:00 AM

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  • Sharon Isbin discusses 'Souvenirs of Spain and Italy' with All Classical Portland
     
    Posted At : November 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    Guitarist Sharon Isbin has recorded nearly everything in her instrument's repertoire. Still, it's refreshing to hear that, when an artist such as Ms. Isbin revisits a work (such as the Vivaldi D Major concerto), she gives us an interpretation with subtle differences from what came before. On "Souvenirs of Spain and Italy", Isbin partners with Pacifica Quartet, so the Vivaldi has an especially intimate feel to it. The disc also sheds light on works that have stayed in the shadows somewhat. The Quintet by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is such a work. Turina's "Bullfighter's Prayer" and Boccherini's Quintet with the Fandango finale (complete with castanets and tambourine) give us a well-rounded tour of the Iberian and Italian peninsulas. LISTEN TO THE All Classical Portland SEGMENT p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d}

  • Angele Dubeau's 'Pulsation' this week is 'Happiness Does Not Wait' by Olafur Arnalds
     
    Posted At : November 11, 2019 12:00 AM

    A pulsation marks time, our time. It infuses its rhythm in it and evokes the heart. This week's pulsation is 'Happiness Does Not Wait' by Olafur Arnalds. Pulsations, Angele Dubeau's new album, brings together works that evoke strong images and possess a profound emotional intensity. "A pulsation marks time, it infuses its rhythm in it and also evokes the heart. Just like those composers whose music calls out to me and who, with their unique signatures, mark time, our time. Features the music of; Olafur Arnalds, Jean-Michel Blais, Ludovico Einaudi, Alex Baranowski, Craig Armstrong, Peter Gregson, Yann Tiersen, Abel Korzeniowski, Johan Johannsson, Max Richter and Dalal." LISTEN via PRX p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d}

  • Luka Sulic returns to his classical roots with cello arrangement of Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' / WFMT: Featured New Release
     
    Posted At : November 10, 2019 12:00 AM

    After seven years of touring the world as part of the critically acclaimed duo 2Cellos, Luka Šulić returns to his classical roots with his first solo album for Sony Classical.  A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Music and a prize-winning cellist, Šulić takes on one of the most iconic works in classical music for his first independent recording project. His dramatic interpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is the first complete recording of the popular cycle of Baroque concertos arranged for a cello soloist. For November 10, 2019 - Luka Sulic 'The Four Seasons' is the WFMT: Chicago 'Featured New Release'  SEE THE PAGE

  • Luka Sulic - The Four Seasons makes PublicRadio90's 'Genre Fluid Fridays on Classiclectic'
     
    Posted At : November 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    Genre Fluid Fridays on Classiclectic: Music exploration and discovery through the lens of classically-minded composers and musicians.  Explore beyond the horizon of classical music, Fridays on Public Radio 90, beginning just after 9:30am ET. This time we are packed with goodies of all instruments and voices!   A new take on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons will also premiere (with Luka Sulic, one of Two Cellos).   After seven years of touring the world as part of the critically acclaimed duo 2CELLOS, Luka Šulić returns to his classical roots with his first solo album for Sony Classical.  A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Music and a prize-winning cellist, Luka Šulićtakes on one of the most iconic works in classical music for his first independent recording project. Available everywhere Friday, October 25, his dramatic interpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is the first complete recording of the popular cycle of Baroque concertos arranged for a cello soloist.  Also arriving today is the album's lead offering, "La Primavera (Spring) Op. 8 No. 1 in D major – I. Allegro," released alongside an accompanying video of Šulić performing the track from his world live Premiere – We'll also enjoy Third Coast Percussion's collaboration with Devonte Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange, and his premiere classical compositions) are debuted on the program, from the album Fields, and music performed by the Black Oak Ensemble, part of a cantata in Doublespeak, music for orchestra and tape, and more! SEE THE PublicRadio90 - Michigan PAGE

  • Third Coast Percussion - Fields makes PublicRadio90's 'Genre Fluid Fridays on Classiclectic'
     
    Posted At : November 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    Genre Fluid Fridays on Classiclectic: Music exploration and discovery through the lens of classically-minded composers and musicians.  Explore beyond the horizon of classical music, Fridays on Public Radio 90, beginning just after 9:30am ET.  This time we are packed with goodies of all instruments and voices!  Third Coast Percussion's collaboration with Devonte Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange, and his premiere classical compositions) are debuted on the program, from the album Fields. Grammy Award-winning, Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion teams up with influential, genre-defying multi-instrumentalist, record producer, songwriter, singer, and composer Devont Hynes (aka Blood Orange) for an album of imaginative, evocative instrumental music created as the live soundtrack for choreography by the adventurous Hubbard Street Dance Chicago company. The album's three works, all world-premiere recordings, represent Hynes's debut on disc as a classical composer. In Perfectly Voiceless, Philip Glass-style minimalism gives way to a catchy pop melody. There Was Nothing blends synthesizer sounds with bowed mallet percussion instruments and moments of meditative lyricism recall the music of Lou Harrison. The expressive harmonies within the gauzy textures of For All Its Fury point to Hynes' love of Debussy. Third Coast arranged Hynes' music for its immense collection of diverse instruments and performed them on stage with the Hubbard Street dancers in Chicago and on tour. The Los Angeles Times praised Hynes' "lush score" and Third Coast's ability to summon "otherwordly sounds from a multitude of idiophones, drums and other devices." Chicago's New City Stage applauded Third Coast's "extraordinary performance" and "ceaseless river of sound." We'll also enjoy A new take on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons will also premiere (with Luka Sulic, one of Two Cellos), Trumpeter Paul Merkelo has a new recording as well, called The Enlightened Trumpet, and music performed by the Black Oak Ensemble, part of a cantata in Doublespeak, music for orchestra and tape, and more! SEE THE PublicRadio90 - Michigan PAGE

  • Black Oak Ensemble - Silenced Voices makes PublicRadio90's 'Genre Fluid Fridays on Classiclectic'
     
    Posted At : November 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    Genre Fluid Fridays on Classiclectic: Music exploration and discovery through the lens of classically-minded composers and musicians.  Explore beyond the horizon of classical music, Fridays on Public Radio 90, beginning just after 9:30am ET.  This time we are packed with goodies of all instruments and voices!  We'll aenjoy music performed by the Black Oak Ensemble, part of a cantata in Doublespeak, music for orchestra and tape. Black Oak Ensemble, a violin, viola, and cello trio comprising three of Chicago's most enterprising chamber musicians, makes its recording debut with Silenced Voices, an album of intriguing works by six promising, early 20th century Jewish composers originally from Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Netherlands.  We'll also enjoy Third Coast Percussion's collaboration with Devonte Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange, and his premiere classical compositions) are debuted on the program, from the album Fields, and a new take on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (with Luka Sulic, one of Two Cellos). SEE THE PublicRadio90 - Michigan PAGE

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Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road & Rhiannon Giddens. Need we say more? / The Bluegrass Situation

Posted: March 3, 2016 12:00 AM | By: Admin
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The legendary cellist brought the talented solo artist and former member of Carolina Chocolate Drops on board for a project with the Silk Road Ensemble, a multi-national group of composers and performers Ma formed in 2000. The ensemble just readied a new album, Sing Me Home, featuring Giddens on the popular American folksong "St. James Infirmary Blues," which we're happy to premiere. Other guests on the album, out April 22, include Bill Frisell, Sarah Jarosz, and Gregory Porter. 

"Music is one of the best ways human beings have to code memory and often, at Silk Road, it's also the way we code friendships," Ma says. ""What an amazing session with the Silk Road Ensemble!" Giddens adds. "I was so honored to get to sing with these fabulous musicians, and you can tell we are all having a great time!" Listen to "St. James Infirmary Blues" and pre-order Sing Me Home here.

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Crossover Media Projects with Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble

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    Sing Me Home

    The latest album by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble will surprise and delight, with guest performers and imaginative sounds that transform the traditional musical landscape. Sing Me Home is the sixth album by the Grammy-nominated Silk Road Ensemble and its founding member and guiding light Yo-Yo Ma. Available from Sony Music Masterworks. Sing Me Homeis a companion album, developed and recorded alongside The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, a documentary feature from Oscar® and Emmy-winning director Morgan Neville that tells the story of the Ensemble and Silkroad, its parent organization. The Music of Strangers is slated for theatrical release in June.

    14 NEW  272 Total
    SYND: NPR/ATC & Thistle & Shamrock, APM/Performance Today, PRI/C24, Echoes & The World, Sing Out!, Jazzfm
    Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice, MOOD
    Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Seattle, St. Louis, Detroit, Denver, Portland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New Orleans, San Diego, Milwaukee, Albuquerque, Berkeley CA, San Antonio, Louisville, Wichita, Madison WI, Boulder CO., Montreal, Vancouver, Amsterdam
    INTER: Canada, UK, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand
    Online: axs, CCTV, FilmNewEurope.com, MOVE - Maneater, The Bluegrass Situation Mother Jones, HuffPost, Parade.com, Musicas Imaginadas, allmusic, Bass Player, Wall Street Journal, MusicTAP, Musical Shapes, SONGLiNES, Yam Mag, yesasia.com, PopMatters, Taintradio, Smithsonian.com, Soulandjazz.com, JazzTimes, JazzPolice, examiner, SLANT, Metro, WSJ, Classical Candor, Quisqueya, RootsWorld, Observer.com, Hollywood Reporter, IndiWire

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    A Playlist Without Borders

    The Silk Road Project has been on a mission to promote innovation and cross-cultural understanding through the arts for the last 15 years. The newest chapter comes with the Sony Masterworks release of the new album A Playlist Without Borders from the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. This is the groundbreaking group's fifth recording and first since 2009's Grammy-nominated Off the Map. The deluxe edition includes the CD and a DVD, Live from Tanglewood, featuring live concert footage of two performances on June 22nd and 24th, 2012, at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts, as well as insightful and intimate behind-the-scenes interviews with the musicians.

    24 New 'ON' this week:  109 Total
    SYND: NPR, Undercurrents
    Direct: SiriusXM, Spafax
    Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Houston, Minneapolis, Denver, Milwaukee, Austin, New Orleans, Albuquerque, Berkeley, San Antonio, El Paso, Wichita, Boulder CO, Hartford CT., Rochester NY
    Online: Taintradio, David Bruce
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    Beyond the Horizon

    Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble continue to explore the musical cultures that flourished along the Silk Road – the ancient trade route between China and the West – with their latest recording for Sony Classical, entitled Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon. The recording will be released just as the performers embark on a brief tour of major U.S. cities. Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon will be released on Tuesday, April 5, 2005.

    24 Stations "ON"    
    Markets include:     Los Angeles, Boston, Cleveland, Kansas City, New Orleans

  • Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble

    New Impossibilities

    New Impossibilities, a new live recording by Sony Classical featuring multiple-Grammy-Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, will be released on July 31. The recording is the result of "Silk Road Chicago," the first city-wide year-long residency spearheaded by the Silk Road Project, the organization founded by Ma as a catalyst for promoting innovation and learning through cross-cultural and interdisciplinary partnerships.

    10 New 'Stations', 124 'Total Stations', 46/CD, 78/Show *56 'Now Confirmed'
    SYND:     Sixty Second CD, APM: Performance Today
    Direct: Worldspace
    Markets include: Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, Seattle(ADI), Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Baltimore(ADI), St. Louis, Kansas City, Portland, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Berkeley, Orlando