Ensemble Barucco - Fasch: Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ittai Shapira [brings] solo violin writing to life with a sweet, plaintive tone and an almost narrative approach to phrasing. New York Times Violinist-composer Ittai Shapira presents a new concert InchThe Old Man and the SeaInch in the 50th anniversary year of Hemmingway's Pulitzer prize winning novel. Prompted by events surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, his love of all things Cuban, and his affection for Hemmingway's story, this new concerto is in three movements, from the loneliness of the fisherman to the bustle of island life and finally the heroic struggle as he finally catches a huge marlin, only for it to be eaten by sharks. Shapira has performed as soloist with orchestras worldwide including Detroit Symphony Philharmonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Czech National Symphony, and made his critically acclaimed debut at Carnegie Hall in 2003.

Nils Henrik Asheim - Mazurka Researching Chopin [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 03/11/2014

Andre Cheron was an influential musical personality in Paris during the mid-eighteenth century. He worked at the Paris Opera as a harpsichordist and inspecteur de l'orchestre de l'Opera. In this capacity he supervised several premieres of Rameau's operas and the controversial performance of Pergolesi's intermezzo La serva padrona. With his 1729 sonata collection, André Cheron (1695-1766) cultivates the InchCorelliInch notation, which was so highly regarded in the French Régence. Ensemble Matis is made up of young musicians of various nationalities who originally met at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona, and ultimately came together to form the current group at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. Since the ensemble's inception in the autumn of 2012, they have worked together intensively in formations contingent on the repertoire and have attempted to share and expand upon their experiences in their joint music-making. With Japan, Switzerland, and South Kroea, many different cultures are represented in the ensemble, which enriches and consistently makes the collaboration exciting. The ensemble has specialized in the performance of Baroque chamber music and, as the name InchMatisInch implies, pays special attention to small details, nuances, and timbres in the music and in ensemble playing. The ensemble's goal is to bring the music with it's wealth of color closer to the audience and to bring to life different expressive values.