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New Violin Music from Iceland: Sif Margret Tulinius
Icelandic violinist Sif Margrét Tulinius commissioned three works in 2020 and presents them on this new recording from Ulysses Arts. The three composers, Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, Hugi Guðmundsson, and Viktor Orri Árnason, had their works presented in the concert series
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Presenting Light and Water: Joseph Phibbs’ String Quartets Nos. 2-4
Following the commissioning of his first string quartet in 2014, English composer Joseph Phibbs (b. 1974) continued to explore the genre, resulting in his String Quartet No. 2 in 2015, No. 3 in 2018, and now No. 4 in 2024,
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Music For Yale: Robert Blocker’s Contemporary Character Pieces for Piano
Robert Blocker, Dean of the Yale School of Music from 1995 to 2023, is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist. He asked his faculty friends and colleagues for contemporary character pieces and was rewarded with an outstanding collection of works by
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Bringing It All Together: Graham Hair’s Piano Music
Australian composer Graham Hair (b 1943) tried to summarise his piano works with a sentence that carries us from the 14th century to modern world music ideas. A compositional period that started in 2008 has resulted in a wealth of
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A New Year: Bruce Liu and Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi isn’t the only composer who looked at the whole year to put it into music. He used the vehicle of a violin concerto. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, on the other hand, put it all in the hands of a pianist
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Simplicity in Choral
Caritas Chamber Choir: A New Spirit
In their most recent recording of choral music by Sir James MacMillan, Phillip Cooke, Henrik Dahlgren, and Andrew Smith, the Caritas Chamber Choir gathers new works. All the works on the album are world premiere recordings. The major composer on
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Night Sounds: Tamayo Ikeda: Fauré and Chopin: Le Nocturne
Inspired by night, the Nocturne first came into our musical language in the 18th century, but the idea of a night-time work comes from the ancient church, where ‘nocturn’ was the last of the seven prayers of the day. Held
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In Love With the Bard: Vaughan Williams’ Stratford Works
For the summer season in 1912 and for three weeks in the Spring of 1913, Ralph Vaughan Williams was invited to Stratford-upon-Avon to compose incidental music and conduct for the Shakespeare productions. Vaughan Williams was invited by Sir Frank Benson,
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