Various Artists - Cold Blue Two / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Wild, impetuous, rocking, fantastic - in short, Stepan Simonian playing J.S. Bach! All seven Bach Toccatas for piano are on this CD, works that have led a wallflower existence compared to other Bach keyboard works. When one listens closely to the virtuoso playing of the 2010 Bach Prize winner the music flashes and sparkles and polished details are presented to the delighted listener.

Dr. Sarah Daughtrey, mezzo-soprano, serves as Voice Area Coordinator and Associate Professor of Music at New Mexico State University, teaching courses in Vocal Diction, Vocal Pedagogy and Literature, as well as applied voice lessons. Dr. Daughtrey received the DM in Vocal Performance and Literature from the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she studied with world-renowned soprano Patricia Wise. She earned the BA in Vocal Performance from Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, and pursued graduate studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she was a Knoxville Opera Company Apprentice performing in the Educational Outreach program. With the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, she performed several roles, including Ottavia in Monteverdi's InchThe Coronation of Poppea.Inch While at IU, she was privileged to perform as the Student/Singer in a staged version of Argento's song cycle InchFrom the Diary of Virginia WoolfInch under the direction of acclaimed baritone Håkan Hagegård with the composer in attendance. An active performer and recitalist, she presents her new album entitled InchA Touch of Blue,Inch featuring works for voice and saxophone and voice, including the premiere recording of Marius Flothuis' cycle on poems from Langston Hughes, InchNegro Lament.Inch She is joined by saxophonist David Box and pianist Justin Badgerow.

Beautiful music evoking the lost idyll of Constable's pastoral landscapes. Music byBeethoven and Mozart rpovides the period feel alongside gentle flute and piano pieces by Sterkel and Pleyel.