The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra has released a CD on its own record label of highlights from Handel’s Teseo, led by Nicholas McGegan and recorded live in Berkeley, California in April 2013. The New Century Chamber Orchestra, based in California’s Bay Area, has released a CD on the NSS label featuring live performances of concertos written for the orchestra’s music director, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. The recording includes pieces by Clarice Assad, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The Curtis Institute of Music’s 20/21 Ensemble has released Two x Four, a Cedille Records recording of double-violin concertos that includes the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds. The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s recording of Glière’s Symphony No. 3 (“Il’ya Muromets”), which the BPO performed at last year’s Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall, has been released on the Naxos label. The San Francisco Symphony’s live July 2013 recording of Bernstein’s complete score to West Side Story, led by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, will be released in June on the orchestra’s own SFS Media label.
Christopher Bardo’s ambient-orchestral album BARDO will be released in July on the label Our Silent Canvas in CD and vinyl editions. Teddy Abrams—music director of the Louisville Orchestra—served as conductor for the recording, featuring musicians from the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic. New Focus Recordings has released Robert Honstein’s RE: You, a chamber music cycle of wordless songs inspired by a series of misdirected emails from an online dating service. Honstein—a founding member of the New York-based composer collective Sleeping Giant—is composer in residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra as part of a Music Alive grant from New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras.
Posted May 12, 2014
