York Bowen - Complete Solo 78-RPM Recordings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Composer Louis Karchin has created a substantial body of work to date, including his recent opera InchJane EyreInch (recorded for NAXOS) and more than half a dozen pieces for orchestra, and a plethora of chamber and vocal compositions. BRIDGE's second Karchin presents five recent works composed during the past decade 2009-2019, featuring the composer's InchChamber SymphonyInch (2009). Over a career spanning more than four decades, composer LOUIS KARCHIN has amassed a portfolio of over 95 compositions, appeared as conductor with numerous performing ensembles, co-founded new music groups, including the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, the Washington Square Ensemble, and the Harvard Group for New Music, and overseen the formation of a graduate program in music composition at New York University. His works have garnered distinguished honors, including three awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and Koussevitzky, Barlow, and Fromm commissions. A citation from the American Academy praised his Songs of John Keats as Incha striking conception, in which the sonic properties of the poetry interact with musical material in unprecedented fusion.Inch

Tatiana Samouli - Complete Violin Sonata [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 10/30/2007

A stunning pairing of Mozart's glorious 'Gran Partita' Serenade with a work written specifically to be performed alongside it, Geysir by the exceptional clarinetist-composer, Mark Simpson. Mark Simpson's simmering, volcanic Geysir was inspired by the rich opening chord of Mozart's 'Gran Partita', and by it's bubbling clarinet writing, which develop into what Simpson describes as a Inchflurry of colour and harmonic shiftsInch. As a clarinetist himself, writing Geysir Inchwas an instinctive thing - it never felt like trying to overcome any limitations... I'm very proud of it...Inch Mark Simpson, who performs on this alongside a line-up of other extraordinary musicians including oboist Nicholas Daniel, was the first ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions in 2006. By 2019 he was composer in residence at the Leicester International Music Festival, and is currently working on a Violin Concerto for Nicola Benedetti and commissions for the LSO, WDR Sinfonieorchester and RSNO.