E. Elgar - Cello Concerto / Falstaff: Symph - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Whether actual or imagined, good or bad, our childhood memories are a world of their own that shapes our personality. They show us how multifaceted our lives are - like a collage that, over time, gradually fills with new colors, lights, and shadows. Relatively inconspicuous and straightforward incidents become special events through the magic of childlike perception. They show us what matters. But the fragments of our memories are not just misty souvenirs of the past. They reflect the environment and the time in which they were created. They are parts of the puzzle of human history, not only with their most beautiful but also gloomiest sides. Numerous poets and composers have dealt with the task to set childhood memories into lyrics and music. On their debut CD, soprano Anna Graf and pianist Han-Lin Yun - active as a duo since 2018 - perform a selection of such songs. The first part contains examples from the 19th century, among them a full recording of the cycle InchNurseryInch by Modest Mussorgski. The songs selected for the second part of this CD are by 20th-century ostracized composers and a female composer, also featuring a full recording of a cycle Mieczysl ´aw Weinberg's Jewish Songs op. 13. It is Anna Graf's and Han-Lin Yun's desire to honor the work of these composers with this CD and not to consign their names to oblivion. The booklet features some very personal childhood memories of the artists and contains new research results regarding the authorship of Ammenlied D 122 which in the past had been attributed to Franz Schubert.

2014 Japanese pressing 2011 remaster. Warner Classics.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 . In early 2003, a young writer/director contacted Explosions in the Sky requesting permission to use one of their songs in his second film, All the Real Girls. Fast-forward a decade The band's music has become an integral part of countless film and television programs; Green is an internationally renowned, impressively eclectic filmmaker; and David Wingo is a highly acclaimed film composer and leader of acclaimed indie-rock group, Ola Podrida. They've all become very close friends, and that tight-knit friendship spawned Green's stirring new film, Prince Avalanche. Much like the film, the soundtrack stitches dozens of tiny moments of heartfelt brilliance into an emotionally resonant whole far more expansive than it's intimate roots might imply. Explosions in the Sky excel at making even the most mundane moments in everyday life seem downright revelatory. David Wingo and David Gordon Green have made careers out of pulling off similar feats in film. It was only a matter of time before these guys all collaborated, and Prince Avalanche delivers on the inspired expectations of such a union.