/tags/new-recordings new recordings en-US Copyright Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:01:30 GMT /2024-07-15/new-recording-sends-home-the-meaning-of-home However we define it, home is something that lives in us as much as we live in it. In its most recent recording, the Austin-based Miró Quartet showcases beguiling American works that explore the meaning of home. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:01:30 GMT /2024-07-15/new-recording-sends-home-the-meaning-of-home Jennifer Hambrick /2024-04-03/the-overlook-hotel-translates-architectural-forms-into-music Every building has a unique personality. The Overlook Hotel, the demonically possessed setting of Stephen King's novel The Shining, is now also the title character of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s musical works inspired by architectural forms. Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:14:54 GMT /2024-04-03/the-overlook-hotel-translates-architectural-forms-into-music Jennifer Hambrick /2024-02-12/recording-offers-new-and-nuanced-readings-of-black-composers-works A new recording, American Counterpoints, sets two undercelebrated African American composers in counterpoint and brings to light a long-obscured musical masterpiece in its first commercial recording. Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:06:38 GMT /2024-02-12/recording-offers-new-and-nuanced-readings-of-black-composers-works Jennifer Hambrick /2023-03-13/recording-showcases-black-american-composers The third volume of the Catalyst Quartet’s groundbreaking Uncovered recording series showcases shimmering performances of string quartets by composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still and Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker. Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:33:53 GMT /2023-03-13/recording-showcases-black-american-composers Jennifer Hambrick /2023-02-14/capturing-the-wonder-and-mystery-of-the-arctic The austere beauty of the Arctic and the rapid ecological changes in the region are the inspiration for Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing’s most recent recording, Arctic (Sony Classical). Featuring music inspired by the Arctic’s natural wonders, the recording is Hemsing’s love letter to the north and her plea to spare this region from the devastation that some portend for it. Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:43:00 GMT /2023-02-14/capturing-the-wonder-and-mystery-of-the-arctic Jennifer Hambrick /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2021-03-12/gil-shaham-records-beethoven-and-brahms-with-the-knights “These pieces have some kind of sibling connection. They are born of the same muse.”That’s what noted violinist Gil Shaham said recently about the violin… Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:09:36 GMT /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2021-03-12/gil-shaham-records-beethoven-and-brahms-with-the-knights Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2019-02-14/celebrate-presidents-day-with-new-recording-of-four-fresh-concertos-inspired-by-u-s-presidents Democracy has been called the worst form of government except for all the others. In the United States, democracy is inextricably linked with the… Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:45:34 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-02-14/celebrate-presidents-day-with-new-recording-of-four-fresh-concertos-inspired-by-u-s-presidents Jennifer Hambrick /classical-101/2015-12-10/maria-callas-is-in-the-room Maria Callas (1923-1977) recorded twenty-six complete operas and a dozen sets of aria recitals between hear first full cry 78s in 1949, and her final… Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:46:59 GMT /classical-101/2015-12-10/maria-callas-is-in-the-room Christopher Purdy