David Biedenbender’s All We Have Been Given We Cannot Hold is an Intimate Portrait and Masterful Collaboration
David Biedenbender: All We Are Given We Cannot Hold. Shell and Wing (2018), text by Robert Fanning, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (PNME), recorded July 6, 2022 at the Pittsburgh City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA.; Red Vesper (2014) recorded April 14-15, 2019 at Blue...
UNCG Duo Produce Moody and Expansive Recording of Late-Romantic Lieder
Othmar Schoeck: Das stille Leuchten. Clara O'Brien, mezzo-soprano; James Douglass, piano; Ablaze Records: ar-00063; Duration 60:00; $13.99 via Ablaze Records. Are you in the market for an NC-created, unique, and passionately performed album of modern-ish lieder? Or...
Sequina DuBose: Blurred Lines: 21st Century Hybrid Vocal Works
Sequina DuBose, soprano with Gregory Thompson, piano. With Mira Frisch (cello); Daniel Ferreira (percussion); Robert Linton (bass guitar); Kari Giles (violin); Jessica Lindsey (clarinet) and David Hughey (tenor). Contents: "Oh, Yemanja" from Scourge of Hyacinths...
WDAV’s Lift Every Voice with Guest Dr. Timothy Holley Will Open Your Mind and Warm Your Heart
WDAV host Joshua Hood spoke with Timothy Holley while introducing radio listeners to inspired works by American composers. Dr. Holley, a scholar and cellist at North Carolina Central University, chose some of his favorite recordings, in celebration of Black History...
Thorough Appraisal of Now Often Underrated and Overlooked Composer
Eric Saylor, Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872-26 August 1958), Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, ("Master Musicians" series), © 2022, Pp. xv + 339; $35.00 via Amazon. The © year was the 150th anniversary of the subject's birth, and this biography is the...
Locklair’s Requiem Recording Cleverly and Beautifully Ordered
Requiem; & Other Choral Works, Dan Locklair (b. 1949), in performance order: Introit & Kyrie Eleison, "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled," Sanctus-Benedictus, Pie Jesu, Agnus Dei, "I am the Resurrection," Lux aeterna, "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes," In Paradisium...
Ringing in the Season with a New CD, the Raleigh Ringers Presents Midnight Clear
Midnight Clear, A collection of traditional sacred and secular pieces arranged for Raleigh Ringers, a handbell choir; © 2022, The Raleigh Ringers, Inc., TT 78:29, CD $15.00, available for preorder; ships December 1. Hark! The heavens opened and the angels...
(Palazzetto) Bru Zane; A Label With A Large and Very Worthy Mission
Etienne, Veronique, Herve, Faure, Aparte, l’Opera, francaise, world-premiere, d’ete, melodies, Prophete, Theophile, premiered, Louis-Desire Veron, Ciceri, Musee, Orphee, Champs-Elysees, Sa
A Quartet of Recent CDs of Chamber Music for Viola, and Four Earlier (Inter-)Related Ones
bel canto; la voix de l'alto / the voice of viola, Antoine Tamestit, viola (Stradivarius "Mahler," 1672), Cédric Tiberghien, piano, Vincenzo Bellini, Norma: "Casta Diva," Gaetano Donizetti, La Fille du regiment, Marie: "Il faut partir," La Favorita, Léonore:...
Pandemic Suite CD by La Fiesta Jazz Quintet Features Local Jazz Greats
CD: The Latin Jazz Pandemic Suite - GREGG GELB, leader, tenor saxophone; Stephen Anderson, piano; Andy Kleindienst, bass; Beverly Botsford, percussion; Ramon Ortiz, drums Duration: 30:10. Price: $15.00. Purchase CD by contacting info@gregggelb.com. If you think about...
