Aaron Zapico - Four Seasons - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A strong opponent of oppression in all it's forms, Leonardo Balada met Martin Luther King in 1967. His Sinfonia en Negro is a powerful response to King's subsequent murder as well as a description of the black people's journey in the Americas from slavery to freedom. Both the Sinfonia and the virtuoso Double Concerto use Balada's pioneering blend of ethnic music with avant-garde techniques, while Columbus Images for Orchestra is a free adaptation of four contrasting scenes from his acclaimed opera Christopher Columbus (8.660237-38). in 2007 Leonardo Balada won an Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters that helped make this recording possible.

Joculatores Upsalienses - Four Seasons [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/08/1994

Grammy Award-winning baroque orchestra Apollo's Fire and it's founder-director Jeannette Sorrell have blazed trails in the world of historically informed performance with pioneering programming, presentational flair and an entrepreneurial spirit, qualities that have earned them eight Billboard chart-topping albums and more than 7 million views on YouTube. Their latest , which launches the ensemble's 30th anniversary season, is destined to soar to similar heights the ensemble's first recording of the perennial audience favourite, Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, featuring the phenomenal Spanish-born fiddler Francisco Fullana. Frequently performed at Apollo's Fire home base in Cleveland, Ohio and on their international tours, InchSorrell's vivid approach to the pictorial elements make these familiar works seem freshly minted, full of astonishing incidentInch, according to Seen & Heard International. Fullana, winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, has been dubbed a Inchrising starInch by BBC Music Magazine, and an Inchamazing talentInch by conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The Four Seasons is the first of five releases spread throughout the season celebrating Apollo's Fire's milestone 30th anniversary.