Orion Weiss
8 products
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The Korngold Collection
$29.99CDCedille
Nov 14, 2025CDR 240 -
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French Impressions
$19.99CDCedille
Sep 05, 2025CDR 238 -
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The Korngold Collection
Berkeley, Brahms & Leshnoff: Horn Trios / Cooper, Kerr, Weiss
The viability of the horn trio was definitively established by Brahms in 1865. He had learned the natural horn as a child and infused his Trio with a range of moods, including a deeply felt slow movement in honor of his mother who had died earlier in the year and a carefree finale which explores the horn’s hunting legacy. Inspired by this precedent, Lennox Berkeley’s Trio is lively and characterful with a sequence of ingenious and playful variations. GRAMMY-nominated Jonathan Leshnoff is one of America’s leading contemporary composers and his 2016 Trio moves from darkness to light, and is full of pointed syncopations, before arriving at a joyous conclusion.
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives - Dvorak: 8 Humoresques - Bartó
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 15 / Orion Weiss
Whilst Alessandro Scarlatti was largely responsible for the early development of Neapolitan opera, his son Domenico is most famous for his extensive series of keyboard sonatas, of which some 555 survive. His employment at the Spanish court in Madrid led to a series of works largely designed for the Infanta, Maria Barbara, later to become queen. These sonatas are amongst the most significant of all 18th-century keyboard works.
French Impressions
Ravel, Brahms & Shostakovich: Arc II
This album strives to understand the varying ways composers comprehend grief, loss and death. How did they cope, their hearts broken, their peace gone? And how can we cope? In this combination of works Weiss has tried to follow the paths these great composers walked in their own grief. Their tracks lead us from death back towards life, from horror to hope. Of his Arc album series, Orion Weiss explains: ‘The arc of this recital trilogy is inverted, like a rainbow’s reflection in water. Arc I’s first steps here head downhill, beginning from hope and proceeding down to despair. The bottom of the journey, Arc II, is Earth’s center, grief, loss, the lowest we can reach. The return trip, Arc III, is one of excitement and renewal, filled with the joy of rebirth and the anticipation of a better future.’
Arc III
