Daniel Lapp - Hardwood Sessions Vol. 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Soprano Laura Strickling writes InchSong serves as one of the most important building blocks of western civilization. InchThe BardInch in the Ancient Greek world sang Homer's epic poems for small groups of people, probably accompanied by a simple stringed instrument like a lyre. All of our best research indicates that the Sumerian Gilgamesh Epic, give or take 1,000 years earlier than Homer's Iliad, was also likely sung, not recited. Like the contemporary songs on this album, these ancient texts shared material that was intensely personal and timelessly universal - detailing the inner world of the protagonist, revealing hopes, insecurities, fear, and longing... When a composer sets beautiful and important words to music, we hear, understand, and internalize them in a different way than we do when we read them or hear these words as speech. In the course of any recital the audience learns something about who I am as a singer, but also who I am as a person - what I believe, what moves me, my insecurities, my struggles, my fears, my hopes, what makes me happy. Connection and communication are essential to the human experience, especially right now. In opera there are costumes, cast, orchestra, conductor, elaborate sets, staging, and blinding spotlights. The composer, librettist and director determine the narrative and the cast shows the story to the audience. But in a song recital, singer and pianist share a narrative they craft through their repertoire choices and offer this narrative directly to the other people sharing their space in a concert hall, or in a room listening to a recording like this one. Song requires a commitment to honest interpersonal communication and invites an audience to participate in a group intimacy people tend to avoid these days. It is far easier to hide at home behind our technological devices...Inch Album Tracks 1. Confessions 2. So

Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Winner Daniel Boling shares experiences from a life well-lived in places as far-ranging as Okinawa, Japan, and Padre Island, Texas. This balladeer/songwriter brings his friendly tenor, fingerstyle guitar, frailed banjo, and beautifully-crafted story songs to delighted audiences throughout the U.S., Western Europe, New Zealand and Australia in over one hundred shows a year, from House Concerts and listening rooms to major festivals (Kerrville, Winfield, Woody Guthrie, and others). LIVE at The Kitchen Sink captures the magic and energy created by artist and audience together and combines that with pristine studio sound - the best of both worlds! Daniel's stories and introductions open windows into his life and influences and further inform the songs. Album Tracks 1. Leadbelly, Woody and Pete 2. Intro to the Bigtop 3. The Bigtop 4. Intro to Appalachia 5. Appalachia 6. Roll Down the Window 7. Intro to I'm Real 8. I'm Real 9. Intro to These Houses 10. These Houses 11. Intro to Chicken Sexer 12. Chicken Sexer 13. Sleeping Dogs 14. Intro to I Will Not Go Gently 15. I Will Not Go Gently 16. Intro to Rent-A-Snake 17. Rent-A-Snake 18. Intro to Welcome Home 19. Welcome Home 20. The Pumpkin Vine 21. Intro to I Brought the War with Me 22. I Brought the War with Me 23. Groundhog 24. Unraveled 25. Ruby Slippers 26. Dad's Garage 27. My Daddy Dreams 28. Someday 29. Intro to Every Journey 30. Every Journey 31. Intro to Darwin's Pride and Joy 32. Darwin's Pride and Joy

Karina Canellakis offers the first fruit of her exclusive Pentatone collaboration with a recording of Bartók's 4 Orchestral Pieces and Concerto for Orchestra, together with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, of which she is the Chief Conductor. The 4 Orchestral Pieces have a strong affinity with the stage works Duke Bluebeard's Castle and The Wooden Prince, conceived in the same period. The Concerto for Orchestra is one of Bartóks final works, full of folk tunes, and utterly colourful and virtuosic for all the instruments. As such, it's an ideal piece to showcase the congeniality between the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and it's star Chief Conductor. Internationally acclaimed for her emotionally charged performances, technical command and interpretive depth, Karina Canellakis has become one of the most in- demand conductors of her generation. She makes her Pentatone debut as Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra that returns to the tag after it's participation in Gordon Getty's Beauty Comes Dancing (2018). Album Tracks 1. 4 Orchestral Pieces, SZ 51 (Op. 12)~Preludio. Moderato 2. 4 Orchestral Pieces, SZ 51 (Op. 12)~Scherzo. Allegro 3. 4 Orchestral Pieces, SZ 51 (Op. 12)~Intermezzo. Moderato 4. 4 Orchestral Pieces, SZ 51 (Op. 12)~Marcia funebre. Maestoso 5. Concerto for Orchestra, SZ 116~Introduzione. Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace - Tempo I 6. Concerto for Orchestra, SZ 116~Presentando le coppie. Allegretto scherzando 7. Concerto for Orchestra, SZ 116~Elegia. Andante, non troppo 8. Concerto for Orchestra, SZ 116~Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto 9. Concerto for Orchestra, SZ 116~Finale. Pesante - Presto