Yo-Yo Ma – Appassionato reflects an extraordinary range of collaborators and includes so many of the most important musical relationships of Yo-Yo’s life. The works selected here have never before been available on one single compilation. The album also represents the entire span of Yo-Yo’s recording career, beginning with his first recordings for the label (Saint-Saens’ The Swan) …
Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet); Fireworks; Song of the Nightingale
Antal Dorati was a veteran ballet conductor and a personal friend of Stravinsky. His recording of The Firebird was a legend in its own time, and its reappearance on CD, sounding better than ever, immediately reestablished its supremacy. All of Stravinsky’s complete ballets–as opposed to the suites– have “dead spots,” moments when the music sort …
The popularity of tango comes and goes, but the “vertical expression of horizontal desire” has remained synonymous with passion, unrequited love, and nostalgia for more than a century. Popularized by Rudolph Valentino and Carlos Gardel, and more recently by Madonna and Julio Iglesias, and often celebrated by Hollywood and Broadway, the …
For their second project in an exclusive relationship with Nonesuch, the violinist and his Baltic-based ensemble offer a meditative collection of 20th century works imbued with the pure intensity of approach that is the hallmark of their style. The album is bookended by two Arvo Part compositions, the iconic Tabula rasa – through whose 1984 chamber recording the …
One of the most original artists of his generation, violinist Gidon Kremer performs the work of composer, arranger, bandoneon virtuoso and tango master Piazzolla, displaying a new dimension in both his playing and repertoire for Hommage a Piazzolla. Kremer (who collaborated with Adams on the Nonesuch release of Adams’ Violin Concerto) has assembled a group of musicians modeled …
The Rough Guide To Tango Nuevo showcases the diverse fragmentation of styles that tango has been experiencing since the death of Astor Piazzolla, the last greatest innovator. New artists are revolutionising tango from within, forging an urban folk style for their own times and lives. ‘Nuevo’ (or ‘New’) tango moves through dark-hued dub tango, tango electronica, tango with …
Ambient Electro-Tango Funk Dub is heard on the new solo record from Composer / Music Supervisor / Sound Designer Blake Leyh, most recently known for his work on all five seasons of HBO’s renowned series The Wire. The album features violin work by Andre Burke, who also played on The Fall, Leyh’s acclaimed end-credit theme for The Wire. …
Acoustic duo comprised of Viviana Guzman, flute and Anibal Corniglio, guitar playing original and classic music from Argentina. The Tango was born more than 100 years ago in Buenos Aires in the impoverished neighborhoods of newly arrived immigrant population. Within the merging, and clashing of cultures the embrace of tango became the bridge across which the human spirit …
Voted Young British Classical Performer of the Year at the 2006 Classical Brits, Alison Balsom follows her critically-acclaimed album Bach: Works for Trumpet with Caprice, a novel and demanding program of specially arranged popular classical works. The album features sparkling transcriptions of Mozart’s ‘Rondo alla Turca’ and the Queen of the Night’s aria (from the Magic Flute) as …
Argentine born, Paris based Juan Jose Mosalini is a master of the bandoneon, the bittersweet button squeezebox that is the quintessential tango instrument. One Man’s Tango is a musically rewarding but poorly annotated compilation of Mosalini’s several French albums. The set includes solo bandoneon, small groups and large ensembles and shows Mosalini as an innovator steeped in tradition …