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Love & Levity
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There I Long to Be
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Songs of Orpheus
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Shades of Mourning
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Pacific Triptych
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Hickey: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind / Rumyantsev
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The Grotesque & The Sublime
Love & Levity
There I Long to Be
Songs of Orpheus
HIK
Shades of Mourning
Auga
Pacific Triptych
The Orphans & Poe
Escape Rites
Earthworks
Kiss On Wood
Hickey: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind / Rumyantsev
Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, first published in 2011 in Hebrew, and in 2014 in English, is justifiably one of the most celebrated books of our time. With its audacious subtitle, the book attempts to explain and explore why our particular species has thrived while most others have perished, and how we are set apart from all others due to our ability and desire to understand and give meaning to things that do not necessarily exist – such as the shared myths of language, money, religion, love, political boundaries, and a host of things not truly tangible but with which we have developed a shared understanding. What I have attempted is a humble musical response to human signposts, concepts, myths, or ideas that we as a species have carried with us, developing along the way these past couple hundred thousand or so years – breadcrumbs on the path of humanity. I imagined the modern piano as a sort of meta-instrument, present at the dawns of humankind, the cognitive and agricultural revolutions, and some of the most notable inflection points of our troubled and triumphant history. The piece begins not on the piano, but at the piano, with a single human breath, as I imagine the first music to have been, somewhere near the dawn of our species. If it is, like most, intended to die off one day, I imagine the very last music to sound more or less the same.
AEQUORA
Thorvaldsdottir: Ubique
Sopp: The Hem & The Haw
Locke, M.: Consorts in 2 Parts
Handel, G.F.: Alexander's Feast [Oratorio] / Bach, J.S.: All
Unbound / Jasper String Quartet
Winner of the prestigious CMA Cleveland Quartet Award, Philadelphia’s Jasper String Quartet is the Professional Quartet in Residence at Temple University’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians. The Jaspers record exclusively for Sono Luminus and have released three highly acclaimed albums in addition to this one. This new release features music by some of America’s leading composers, including Caroline Shaw, Missy mazzoli, David Lang, Ted Hearne, and Annie Gosfield. The quartet writes: “The seven pieces on this album represent a collection of treasures we’ve discovered from this century. One of these pieces, Annie Gosfield’s “The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon,” was written expressly for our quartet. The rest we unearthed as we sifted through the vibrant and varied landscape of music being created today…” “The Jaspers… match their sounds perfectly, as if each swelling chord were coming out of a single, impossibly well-tuned organ, instead of four distinct instruments.” (New Haven Advocate)
Alza tu voz: Himnos de Charles Wesley
Hasse: Antonio e Cleopatra / Ars Lyrica Houston
Dorian Sono Luminus invites you to a night at the opera with this 2 CD release of Adolf Hasse’s serenata Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra, performed by the Houston-based ensemble Ars Lyrica. Founded in 1998 by harpsichordist and conductor Matthew Dirst, Ars Lyrica Houston has begun to make a name for itself in the international early music community. Gramophone recently praised Ars Lyrica’s début CD (A SCARLATTI Euridice dall'Inferno, La Concettione della Beata Vergine Naxos 8.570950) for its ‘exemplary skill and taste’, the ensemble’s musicians for their ‘impassioned performance’. In 1721 Johann Adolf Hasse traveled to Italy to hone his craft and seek his fortune. Settling in Naples, Hasse studied composition first with Nicola Porpora, then Alessandro Scarlatti, and began to write seriously for the stage. By 1730 he produced at least seven operas, eight intermezzi, and three serenate, the most significant of which is Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra. Hasse’s score makes vivid the complex emotions of his title characters in eight arias, two duets, and some highly expressive recitative; the whole is introduced by a Sinfonia in two movements. Though the work is scored for just strings and continuo, this recording adds various woodwind colors (oboes, recorders, flute, and bassoon), rendering even more colorful Hasse’s imaginative and supple ideas. This 2-CD set will enchant the early music community, thrill the opera lover, and intrigue all lovers of classical music.
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Sol y Luna
Past & Present - Beethoven: Complete Variations & Sonatas For Cello & Piano
GRAMMY award winning pianist Lambert Orkis and Principal cellist for the National Symphony Orchestra, David Hardy, have delivered an entirely new way to hear this spectacular repertoire. This 4 disc set provides the listener with 2 completely different listening experiences for these pieces. First, the works are performed as they are most often heard in performance today, on a modern piano and the cello strung with steel strings. Next, the listener is transported into the time that the works were originally written with a second complete performance on 3 period correct forte pianos, and with the cello now strung with traditional gut strings.
The difference in tone colors is not the only contrast between the two interpretations of these Beethoven masterworks. Both performers, are each masters of modern and period performance practice, and they both adjust performance practice and interpretations in the two versions. That also contribute to the accompanying notes for the album.
Chapi: String Quartets No 1 & 2 / Cuarteto Latinoamericano
These are major works, full-length, and ambitious in scope–they play for about 35 minutes each. The First Quartet’s first movement features about a billion repetitions of its principal motive, but even there Chapí’s powers of invention are pretty astonishing. The music is insistent, but never dull. The master lyricist is always in evidence, with tunes that always sing, while the treatment of texture is astonishingly colorful. There’s plenty of pizzicato for variety, while the layout of the four instrumental lines is consistently airy and spacious. Combine that with the obviously Spanish melodic idiom, and the result is enchanting from start to finish.
The Cuarteto Latinoamericano plays with typical incisiveness and verve. However, the ensemble smartly tempers its trademark sharp sonority in a manner consistent with the music’s elegance and warmth, especially in the two slow-ish movements (Andante mosso and Allegretto, respectively). The truth is, there is very little actual slow music in these quartets. They quite literally seethe with energy, but the players differentiate and characterize each section notably well. Superb engineering from Sono Luminus captures every inflection with natural fidelity. A great release.
-- David Hurwitz, ClassocsToday.com
