Lisa Moore - No Place to Go But Around - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

?The idea to record a CD of chamber music for clarinet and piano by composers from Germany, Denmark and Russia arose quite spontaneously. The starting point of our research was the InchFantasiestückeInch by Niels Wilhelm Gade Op. 43. After we had successfully performed this cycle in some concert programs, the desire came to look at the genre of European instrumental romantic miniatures of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. So it was only logical that our choice fell on the InchFantasiestückeInch by Robert Schumann Op. 73. His work is a kind of starting point for the whole CD concept. The Second Sonata by Alexander Gretschaninow came into our repertoire not long ago, but took a permanent place thanks to it's luminosity, sublimity of figures and sincerity of romantic statement. The same is true of the unique InchSonata-VocaliseInch by Nikolai Medtner, which is an excellent example of an organic synthesis of German and Russian schools of composers and embodies the continuity of Schumann's artistic ideals. The multidimensional term InchfantasyInch (in the old variant InchphantasyInch) means Inchto imagine somethingInch, Inchto improviseInch. And it is precisely the rich, radiant, outstanding and - this is actually the most important thing - free imagination of the artists presented on the CD that has given us the happiness of encountering their art. This joy of fantasizing, full of inspiration, we would like to share with you.

Uncle Tupelo's marriage of punk rock animus with the simplicity of American roots music ignited a major movement heralding rock's return to traditional country origins. Anodyne, their 1993 , was widely considered their definitive work. The disc reinterprets country, rock, and folk idioms with the compelling vision that was Tupelo's own. The CD has been expanded by 5 tracks and remastered to capture the live brilliance more faithfully than ever.

Composed and conceived by Lisa Bielawa with a libretto by Erik Ehn, Vireo - The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser is an opera in twelve episodes, created for television and online viewing. The eponymous heroine Vireo, played by Rowen Sabala, is a fourteen-year-old girl genius entangled in the historic obsession with female visionaries as they are defined by witch-hunters, early psychiatrists, and modern artists. Directed by Charles Otte, the opera removes the set limitations of a staged opera by shooting on location across the country in places such as Alcatraz, a monastery on the Hudson River, an abandoned train station in Oakland and the California Redwoods. The traditional pit orchestra is replaced by a cast of over 350 world-class musicians, on camera and inside the action. Featured artists include vocalists Deborah Voigt, Laurie Rubin, Gregory Purnhagen and Ryan Glover along with the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Alarm Will Sound, and more.