Dominic Piers Smith - Power of Dreaming - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album, recorded in the 1960s and 1970s, is a selection of traditional songs and dances from Juchitán and Tehuantepec, two of the principal cities of the Isthmus. Side I includes songs with guitar accompaniment; side II offers instrumental music played by a brass band and a flute and drum combination.

Willowhayne Records is delighted to announce the of international pianist Dominic John. Recorded in Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London, this album features a dazzling display of virtuosity through a broad selection of repertoire, including the rarely recorded Vaneyev transcription of Kreisler's Praeludium & Allegro to Earl Wild's Fantasy on Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Dominic's artistry has won him several prizes including First Prize in the 22nd Brant International Piano Competition, British Music Society Awards, RCM Chappell Gold Medal, a Director's Golden Jubilee Award at the RCM, Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition as well as a laureate of the Corpus Christi, USA. International Competition for Piano and Strings. Performances in the UK include the Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smith Square, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Fairfield Hall and the Barbican Hall. Overseas he has played in France, Holland, Poland, America, Korea and Japan. Dominic is on the faculty of the Junior Department at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

The powerful and amazingly varied music of Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, whose art was suppressed by the Nazi regime and who died in captivity in 1942, is given stirring performances by brilliant young players from the Colburn School, Los Angeles' elite conservatory. James Conlon, world-renowned conductor and LA Opera music director, leads the RVC Ensemble in Schulhoff's Piano Concerto, Op. 43, with Dominic Cheli as soloist. Four other pieces - all strong and unique -complete the album's offerings, which span the years between 1923 and 1937; Cheli and violinist Adam Millstein are particularly outstanding contributors. While Schulhoff's music has been gradually emerging from near-total obscurity in recent years, Shapeshifter is especially notable as the first album-length example of his works being taken up by American musicians of classical's ascendant Inchnext generation.Inch We at Delos hope the album sparks increased interest in Schulhoff among younger players and their audiences. The project is intimately connected to the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, which encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were disrupted or ended during the years of the Nazi regime in Europe. The Recovered Voices initiative was established at the Colburn School in 2013.