Ensemble Vida - Leipold: The Little Prince Meets You - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Robert Uchida - Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/25/2008

When Kent Nagano assumed the direction of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in autumn 2006, he had intended a new production of Richard Strauss' Salome as one of the first premieres. He wanted to precede the challenging one-act opera after Oscar Wilde's drama with a new music theatre work. He turned to Wolfgang Rihm. 'I replied', Rihm said in an interview with Die Zeit 'There's only one thing the final scene from Schlusschor by Botho Strauß. Nagano's commission became the catalyst in transforming this desire into reality. This is the genesis of Das Gehege. A nocturnal scene for soprano and orchestra. Kent Nagano and Jean-Pascal Beintus (* 1966) met in the orchestra pit of the Opéra de Lyon in 1988. After considering the first orchestral manuscripts, the maestro, known for his openness and great erudition, encouraged the young man to expand his musical career. Several pictorial projects came to Nagano's mind, which he entrusted to Beintus' musical imagination first, Wolf Tracks for recitator and orchestra (recorded with the speakers Bill Clinton and Michail Gorbachov), for which Beintus was awarded a Grammy in 2004, before in 2008 writing for the family concerts of the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin a suite on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's omnipresent The Little Prince.

Hot on the heels of the sold-out limited EP Was It Ever Real?, The Soft Pink Truth releases a super catchy, sexy contemporary disco banger Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?, Throughout the ten songs of the album, the provocation to go InchdeeperInch prompts promiscuous moves across the genres of disco, minimalism, ambient, and jazz, sliding onto and off of the dancefloor, sweeping higher and lower on the scale of frequencies, engaging both philosophical texts re-set as pop lyrics and wordless glossolalia.1 Deeper2 La Joie Devant La Mort3 Wanna Know4 Trocadero5 Moodswing6 Sunwash7 Joybreath8 Deeper Than This?9 Toot Sweet10 Now That It's All Over