STEPHAN MOCCIO / SCENES FROM A VELVET ROOM Stephan Moccio - composer behind hit songs for Celine Dion, Miley Cyrus, and The Weeknd - recalls his formative years as pianist at the Toronto Four Seasons hotel lounge on his wistful, nostalgic, and jazz-infused new album Scenes from a Velvet Room. (Decca Records)

Stephan Moccio - "Winter Poems". Pianist and composer Stephan Moccio presents his 2020 album Winter Poems - now on vinyl for the first time. A selection of ten peaceful, melodic piano arrangements of timeless holiday favorites. Plus, some seasonal new compositions by Moccio.

Stephan Micus - "To the Rising Moon" To the Rising Moon is Stephan Micus' 26th solo album for ECM. It features instruments from Colombia, India, Xinjiang (China), Bavaria, Cambodia, Egypt and Borneo, but taking center stage is the Colombian tiple, slightly smaller than an acoustic guitar. The sunny plucked sound of the tiples alternates with darker bowed strings, which bring a more meditative mood. Once again, Stephan Micus takes us on a unique musical journey to places unknown that couldn't have been created or played by anyone else. Artist Hometown: Germany. Verve Label Group; ECM; Jazz.

Feel More. Think Less. During the winter of 2023, pianist and composer Stephan Moccio traded his home of Los Angeles for the South of France to record his album "Legends, Myths and Lavender", far away from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan chaos at the iconic Chateau Miraval. Stephan Moccio: "Three things I'm most passionate about-music, wine, and architecture-combined into this experience".

Feel More. Think Less. During the winter of 2023, pianist and composer Stephan Moccio traded his home of Los Angeles for the South of France to record his album "Legends, Myths and Lavender", far away from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan chaos at the iconic Chateau Miraval. Stephan Moccio: "Three things I'm most passionate about-music, wine, and architecture-combined into this experience".

Stephan Micus is a unique musician and composer. He collects and studies instruments from all around the world and creates his own musical journeys with them. This is his 25th solo album for ECM and it's sound is dominated by the four-metre long Tibetan dung chen trumpet, an instrument he has recently learned and is using for the first time. It was the thunderous sound of this instrument that led to the album's name and it's nine tracks celebrating deities around the world.

As featured at the 2013 London Proms on August 17th, Marin Alsop conducts Brahms's a German Requiem, which is almost certainly triggered by the death of his mother in 1865. It is of his greatest and most popular works, quite unlike any previous Requiem. With texts taken from Luther's translation of the Bible and an emphasis on comforting the living for their loss and on hope of the Resurrection, the work is deeply rooted in the tradition of Bach and Schuutz, but is vastly different in character from the Latin Requiem of Catholic tradition with it's evocation of the Day of Judgement and prayers for mercy on the souls of the dead.

REVIEWS:
Fanfare (1-2/00, pp.212-213) - "...Borrensen's Symphony No. 1 is a finely crafted piece....The two other pieces...are more overtly folkish than the symphony....Recommended to all aficionados of Scandinavian music, and especially to those who have yet to discover its still out-of-the mainstream glories."