Among orchestras with recordings news is the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which has released its fourth recording on its ASO Media label, featuring Music Director Robert Spano leading an all-Sibelius program of the sixth and seventh symphonies, and the tone poem Tapiola. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project has released Möbius Loop, a new recording of music by Mathew Rosenblum, on its BMOP/sound label. In Russia, the record label Melodiya and record label/distributor The Orchard will release 750 titles digitally on iTunes from Melodiya’s historic catalogue, with performances featuring Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yevgeny Mravinsky, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Yevgeny Kissin, and many others. Deutsche Grammophon has released a two-CD set recorded live at Carnegie Hall of James Levine’s return to the podium with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in September 2013. In January, Telarc will release a new CD featuring the North Carolina Symphony in Britten’s Symphony for Cello, with soloist Zuill Bailey. The Pittsburgh Symphony has released a new Reference Recordings CD featuring Manfred Honeck leading Strauss’s Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. California’s Santa Rosa Symphony has released a CD recorded live in September 2012 at the orchestral opening concert at Weill Hall at Sonoma State University’s Green Music Center, the orchestra’s new home. First Run Features has produced Speak the Music: Robert Mann and the Mysteries of Chamber Music, a documentary film by Allan Miller about the founding member and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. On January 12 at 1pm at the Manhattan School’s Miller Recital Hall in New York there will be a free screening of the film. Naxos has released the first recording of Mohammed Fairouz’s In the Shadow of No Towers (Symphony No. 4 for Wind Ensemble), inspired by Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel of the same name, featuring the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble.
Posted December 20, 2013
