Sara Mingardo - La Mia Sera - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Although much of the repertoire on this disc was originally conceived for large orchestra, the chamber versions offered here shed new light on familiar territory. In 1918, Arnold Schoenberg founded his Verein fur musikalische Privatauffuhrungen (Society for Private Musical Performance), whose mission was to promote contemporary works. A great admirer of Mahler, Schoenberg created a chamber version of the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen for the Society, while his student Erwin Stein penned a reduction of Busoni's Berceuse diagiaque. Reiner Riehn, who completed Schoenberg's chamber version of Das Lied von der Erde, wrote this arrangement of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder for chamber orchestra. The disc is completed by Mahler's rarely heard Quartettsatz for piano and string quartet. Contralto Sara Mingardo is accompanied by Musica Aurei conducted by Luigi Piovano. Album Tracks 1. Nun Will Die Sonn' So Hell Aufgeh'n! 2. Nun Seh' Ich Wohl, Warum So Dunkle Flammen 3. Wenn Dein Mütterlein 4. Oft Denk' Ich, Sie Sind Nur Ausgegangen! 5. In Diesem Wetter 6. Quartettsatz - Various Performers 7. Wenn Mein Schatz Hochzeit Macht 8. Ging Heut' Morgen Über's Feld 9. Ich Hab' Ein Glühend Messer 10. Die Zwei Blauen Augen 11. Berceuse Élégiaque, Op. 42 - Musici Aurei

The distinguished New York-based composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff synthesizes traditional tonal idioms with lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, blues, and rock music, creating a distinct musical language that speaks to the heart, but is unmistakably contemporary. His soaring, soulful melodies are strikingly suited to the cello, Inchin some ways my favorite instrument,Inch admits Bruce, Inchafter my own of course.Inch For Paradise Found, Bruce reunites with Grammy Award-winning cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio - the pair previously collaborated on Bruce's Cello Concerto, a Top 10 Billboard Classical chart hit - for the first recordings of his two Cello Sonatas, and two miniatures Circe and The Woods. Paradise Found is indelibly inspired by the splendors of the natural world. The title track - Bruce's first cello sonata - was composed under the shadow of 2020's first COVID lockdown and serves as an affirmation of lasting beauty when the world was plunged into a very dark place. InchIn composing this piece,Inch Wolosoff reveals, InchI wanted to remind myself, and future listeners, that the world is still beautiful.Inch Bruce's second cello sonata, InchRequiem for the Planet,Inch is a musical response to climate change. With movements titled 'Song of the Earth, Requiem Aeternum, The Great Waters' and 'Epilogue I have loved this world so dearly,' the work is a sort of musical requiem in sonata form. But it is not without hope. Bruce acknowledges, InchIt is my most fervent wish that this beautiful, ephemeral world will endure throughout my children's lifetimes.Inch The album concludes with two InchencoresInch - Circe inspired by the sorceress in Homer's The Odyssey, and The Woods, after a drawing by Bruce's friend April Gornik, whose beautiful paintings adorn the album's booklet. Album Tracks 1. Cello Concerto No. 1 InchParadise FoundInch 2. Cello Concerto No. 2 InchRequiem

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as one of the 19th century's greatest virtuoso pianists, Agathe Backer Grøndahl was also a pioneer among women composers, juggling marriage, motherhood and an extensive career. She was taught by Liszt in Weimar, and as one of Norway's most respected composer-pianists, created a large body of work that displays colorful stylistic variety and poetic breadth. The beautiful Sérénade from Trois Morceaux, Op. 15 may well be Backer Grøndahl's most popular piano composition, but her concert études are virtuoso masterpieces - the folk-tune arrangements drawn from her Op. 30 and Op. 33 sets illustrate her perceptive absorption of her country's folk music. The remarkable fairy-tale suite I blaafjellet, Op. 44 is possibly the first impressionist piece by a Norwegian composer. Album Tracks 1. Suite, Op. 20~I. Prélude 2. 3 Morceaux, Op. 15~I. Sérénade 3. Études de concert, Op. 57/1 4. Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30~I. Brudeslaat (Lom?) 5. 6 Idylles, Op. 24~I. Allegretto leggiero 6. Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30~IX. Siklebækken (Møllargutten) 7. Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30~X. Kivlemöyerne (Møllargutten) 8. Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30~XI. Fanitullen (Møllargutten) 9. 6 Idylles, Op. 24~V. Allegretto tranquillo 10. 6 Fantasistykker. Barnlige Billeder, Op. 66~I. Ride, ride ranke 11. Norske folkeviser og folkedanse behandlede, Op. 33~III. Laat i Fjellet 12. 3 Ungarske studier (Three Hungarian Studies), Op. 38~II. Intermezzo 13. Fantasistykker for Piano, 2den Samling, Op. 39~Hefte I I. Souvenir 14. Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 33~VIII. Bruralaat (Valdres) 15. 4 Skizzer (Sketches), Op. 19~I. Allegretto leggiero 16. Norske folkeviser og folkedanse Behandlede, Op. 33~I. Halling 17. Smaa fantasistykker for Piano, 4de Samling, Op. 55~IV. Et Farvel 18. Norske folkeviser og f