| Elina
Vähälä performs for world-wide audience at the
Nobel Peace Prize
Celebration
Acclaimed violinist Elina Vähälä
performed the Nigel Hess Fantasy before a
world-wide audience at the December 11th Nobel Peace Prize
Ceremonies. Broadcast on CNN live, the concert was in honor of
Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari of Finland.
See & Hear
More about
Elina Vähälä.
First Person:
Stories
From the Edge of the World
 The
National Geographic Society teams up with Ensemble Galilei and NPR's
Neal Conan for the new show featuring music, narration and stunning
photographs. Large format on-stage projections of spectacular images
combine with Neal Conan's narration of original texts from some of the
world's greatest explorers, and the gorgeous music of Ensemble Galilei.
More
 And
click here
for more information on
A Universe of Dreams: Ensemble Galilei with NPR's Talk of the
Nation Host Neal Conan and Projected Images from the Hubble Space
Telescope.
Read a review of the music for this show. |
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 NEWS
"Guitarist Is 1-Man String Section With Orchestra" says the
Tampa Tribune. Jason Vieaux performs Villa Lobos with Pedro Halffter and the Florida Orchestra.
Read more ... and
new video.
Jason Vieaux's new CD, Images of Metheny (Azica) is receiving
major attention in North America and abroad. The current issue of
Guitart has this to say:
"There is a term used by jazz players called "playing in the
pocket", encompassing laying on the back side of the rhythmic
beat, conveying a sense of great ease and feel. This is rarely
found on the classical guitar for various reasons, but in this
case you have but to listen to the first track, Every Day (I
thank you), to understand that Jason has this concept deeply
engrained in his playing. At once, achingly beautiful and later
progressing to more rhythmic devices, this extended work takes you
on a sonic journey not easily forgotten. Jason nails the subtle
techniques...Jason also set a number of Metheny’s works into a
baroque suite, creating a beautifully realized old take on new
pieces." More on Jason.
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Fine Arts Quartet recording news
Adding to their already impressive
collection of CDs on the Naxos label (part of a huge discography
spanning six decades), the Fine Arts String Quartet has just
recorded three Beethoven String Quintets with guest violist Gil
Sharon. Nestled into the quartet's extensive fall 2008 European
tour, the recordings were made in the Library of Wittem
Monastery (Klooster Wittem) in The Netherlands. Photos and
more on the recording session.
More on
the Fine Arts Quartet. The quartet's new release of
the Mendelssohn String Quintets (with Danilo Rossi) was named as
Best Recording of 2008 by MusicWeb International's critic Terry
Barfoot, who lauds the: "vibrant, brilliantly played
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News!
Guitarist Jason Vieaux's new Bach CD debuts on
Billboard's Classical Chart at #13.
Read Gramophone review.
News!
Pianist Christopher Taylor performs works of
Theresienstadt composers
Viktor Ullman and Wladyslaw Szpilman with the
Colorado Symphony. The Denver Post writes: "Taylor, a versatile,
ready-for-anything soloist, delivered a brilliant, intense
performance". Read
more.
News!
Kuerti at the Concertgebouw
The master pianist gave a June recital in Amsterdam at the famed Concertgebouw.
His all-Beethoven program on the "Master Pianist" series garnered
raves: "His passion left a lasting impression.... It seemed as
though we were hearing a new score.....The great imagination
Kuerti brought to the works elevated the performance to an
absolutely
top level. What perfection!" Noord-Hollands Dagblad
read more.
and in Boston... Pianist Anton Kuerti steps in and saves the day for
the Boston
Symphony's March 12th concert. The
Boston Globe hails Kuerti's work:
"... not a note had been taken
for granted, with even the most prosaic passages refracted through
a powerful intellectual prism."
Read more...
Enchantment Theatre Company
Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd., is
delighted to announce that The
Enchantment Theatre Company has joined our roster for the
symphony market.
Their 2008/2009 programs include a new Scheherazade
production.
R ead more
about this acclaimed company. They have performed with the
Symphonies of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Seattle
and beyond.
Flutist Gary Schocker celebrated by Theodore Presser
Publisher
Music publisher Theodore Presser
Company celebrates the 50th birthday of
flutist/composer Gary Schocker with a contest. Click
here
for more info.
Nordic Voices releases new CD - Djanki-Dong, on Aurora
label
"The selection here encompasses micro-intervals which required
long training to master, and tongue-twisting rhythmic constructions.
And besides micro-tonality they incorporate in their work
overtone singing and kveding (traditional Norwegian folk song)."
[Musical Pointers]
read more...
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| I Musici de Montreal
tours Mussorgsky with "Pictures"
"...imaginative illustrations for the final musical
work...expressive and highly inventive arrangements..." reports
the Cleveland Plain Dealer
The exciting new tour programs from
I Musici de Montreal include the chamber orchestra version of
Mussorgsky's famed Pictures at an Exhibition, complete with
animated projections of new paintings by Natasha Turovsky.
Videoclip.
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| Katherine Chi charms
Calgary Pianist Katherine Chi returned
to the Calgary Philharmonic to close this
subscription season with a superb performance of the Rachmaninoff
2nd concerto. The
Calgary Herald had this to say:
The main reason for the full house
was, of course, the appearance of Chi performing one of the most
beloved of all piano concertos, the Rachmaninoff
Second...beautifully poised and remarkable not only for her
command of the brilliant passages but for the beautiful shaping of
the melodies."
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