Farrugia Ashkenazy Raimondi Kropfitsch - In the Midst of Things - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Franchomme / Dubin / Bruskin / Thorsteinsdottir - Franchomme Project [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/11/2015

The Fidelio Trio return to Resonus Classics joined by the acclaimed clarinettist Julian Bliss to present this album of recent chamber works by British composer Michael Zev Gordon. Presenting a varied programme of instrument combinations, the trio and Julian present works stretching back over fifteen years, celebrating Michael's individual and idiomatic voice along with both the fascinating and wide-ranging influences within his music. The 'virtuosic Fidelio Trio' (The Sunday Times) is Darragh Morgan, violin, Adi Tal, cello, and Mary Dullea, piano. Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, the Fidelio Trio is an enthusiastic champion of the piano trio genre, performing the widest possible range of repertoire on concert stages across the world; it has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTW Lyric FM, WQXR, and featured on a Sky Arts documentary.

The Accademia Strumentale Italiana was founded in Verona in 1981 with the specific purpose of recreating the atmospheres of those ancient and illustrious academies, where the pleasure of meeting one another gave a special flavour to making music together. It's repertoire encompasses instrumental and vocal music ranging from the Renaissance to the early Baroque, performed according to strict philological canons, but without compromising it's ability to comunicate with the present. The Accademia has performed extensively in Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Germany and has been invited to several international festivals where it has always met with widespread critical acclaim. The pieces on this new are centered around a single idea comedy. Each piece has an element of humor and would have been used to lighten the mood on stage.