Beethoven / Orth - Diabelli Variations - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With In Faded Sepia, the Garibaldi Trio offers a musical journey where memory, lyricism, and stylistic contrasts intertwine in a remarkably rich sonic palette. The album brings together works by Lowell Liebermann, Dorothy Chang, and Stephen Chatman, along with a vibrant tribute to Duke Ellington through original arrangements by Yuri Kuriyama. Through these works, the trio showcases the full sonic range of the clarinet, viola, and piano. This intimate yet expansive ensemble allows for a seamless transition from profound lyricism to a more vibrant energy, with occasional nods to jazz.The recording's central theme is Dorothy Chang's Persistence, and more specifically it's 'Song, in Faded Sepia' movement, which inspired the album's title. Like an old photograph whose contours have softened with time, the music evokes a memory. Fragments of a familiar theme reappear, like fleeting images that cannot be held onto. Between the almost diabolical fervor of Liebermann's trio, the virtuosic and luminous sweep of Chatman's Garibaldi Suite, and the timeless elegance of Ellington revisited with freedom and imagination, In Faded Sepia weaves a sensitive dialogue between tradition and modernity.

Seraphim album for sale by Irfan was released Mar 24, 2011 on the Prikosnovenie tag. The most authentic album of the Bulgarian band.5 years after their first album, discover a powerful mystic sound from Bulgaria. The exceptional voice of Denitza Seraphimova is amazing, reminding Lisa Gerrard or Azam Ali's oriental songs. Between Bulgarian ancient folklore, oriental mystic sing, Balkan choirs and sacred music, Irfan astonishes with brilliant and melodic compositions. Seraphim CD music contains a single disc with 9 songs. Album Tracks 1. Simurgh 2. Invocatio 3. Hagia Sophia 4. Vernal Garden 5. Fei 6. Los Ojos de la Mora 7. Star of the Winds 8. Onvocatio II 9. Return to Outremer

Previous albums on Piano Classics by Leonardo Pierdomenico have won enthusiastic praise from the international critics. Of his debut Liszt recital including the Csardas macabre (PCL10151), Fanfare noted 'scrupulous performances, featuring exceptional textural clarity and rhythmic resilience, coupled with an often striking attention to harmonic nuance.' Gramophone awarded it Editor's Choice 'His highly developed technique and cultivated sound, both adaptable to a variety of effects, are wedded to those twin essentials for artistic Liszt playing imagination combined with thoroughgoing, scrupulous musicality.' Such qualities illuminate his new recording of the Piano Concerto by Dvorák, made in the Czech Republic with an orchestra who live and breathe the composer's music. One of his most neglected works, the Piano Concerto requires particularly devoted advocacy as well as formidable virtuosity to overcome the technical shortcomings of Dvorák's piano writing, but the effort is rewarded with episodes of no less ardent lyricism than the high points of his concertos for violin and cello. The Piano Concerto, however, burns with a ferocity all it's own, more similar in that regard to Schumann's impassioned writing for soloist and orchestra. The unusual pairings draw on the talents of the Pardubice orchestra's front desks, with two equally unfamiliar concertante miniatures by Dvorák, the Mazurek for violin and orchestra (dedicated to Pablo de Sarasate) and the Rondo for cello and orchestra intended for Hanus Wihan, who would in time inspire Dvorák to compose the Cello Concerto. Thus the album will complete a Dvorák concerto collection on CD as well as offering a further demonstration of Leonardo Pierdomenico's artistry. Album Tracks 1. Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33 2. Mazurek for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 49 3. Rondo for Cello & Orchestra in G minor, Op.