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If Johann Sebastian Bach had lived in the present day, would he have been a jazz musician?

The TSO announces the appointment of Steven Reineke as Principal Pops Conductor. A celebrated conductor and arranger who has become familiar to TSO audiences following his début in 1997, Steven Reineke is also the Music Director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, and Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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Trio in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3 - Allegro con brio

The conductor talks about Leonard Bernstein's influence on him

The Dali Quartet performs "La Cumparsita" on the NBC 10! Show.

with Lily Francis (viola), Eric Kim (cello)

The Gee Street Art project

String Quartet in F minor, Op.5; String Quartet in E flat major, Op.14

String Quartet in G minor, Op.13; String Quartet in F major, Op.44; String Quintet in G major The Danish String Quartet with Tim Frederiksen, viola

This release marks the return of American conductor Joshua Rifkin to the world of Renaissance music performance after a pause of several decades. Rifkin has revolutionized the performance of composers from Bach to Scott Joplin, but here his presentation and performances, with the eight-voice all-male Dutch group Cappella Pratensis, draw on and synthesize recent insights of others. - All Music Guide

"This glorious disc confirms Yevgeny Sudbin as one of the most searching and inspired of today’s pianists. Each recording that he produces in his continuing series for BIS seems to reveal a new facet of his thought processes and his interpretative intelligence." - The Telegraph

Following their triumphant Casals Encores disc, Alban Gerhardt and Cecile Licad are reunited for Faurés music for cello and piano. The two cello sonatas are among the masterpieces of the cello repertoire, looking back to the 19th century but also with an edginess that may well reflect the time in which they were writtenduring and immediately after the First World War. Remarkably, Fauré was in his seventies by the time he wrote them. Theres some debate as to how fast the last movement of the First Sonata should go so Alban Gerhardt has recorded two alternative versions, to be programmed to the listeners taste. Alongside the sonatas are some of Faurés most seductive bon-bons, including the famous Sicilienne and Élégie, and the so-called Papillon (so-named at his publishers insistence, much to Faurés annoyance who hated fluffy titles).

Yevgeny performs Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lan Shui.

Monica Huggett has produced numerous best-selling and acclaimed recordings for Avie, notably the Grammy®-nominated Bach Orchestral Suites (AV 2171) which made the Top 10 of Billboard's Traditional Classical Chart. This ear-opening version which - Monica claims - restored Suite No. 2 to its original instrumentation, placing the solo line with oboe rather than the more commonly-heard flute. She makes a similar case with her new recording of Bach's St. John Passion, placing oboes where we typically hear flutes, arguing convincingly that Bach's original score was produced during his early years working in Leipzig where flutes were unavailable to him. Once again, Monica is aided and abetted by baroque oboist Gonzalo X. Ruiz, who states, "The omission of flutes gives the St. John Passion a less galante feel for Bach's music that developed in the mid-18th century and restores a trim sound, in line with most orchestral music of the time. It retains, however, an undeniable richness of orchestration owing to the uncommon string instruments in the arias." Monica continues, "There have been many scholarly discussions about the forces originally used for the St. John Passion, including the suggestion of performing it with one voice or instrument to a part. The most satisfying performances in my personal experience have been those involving a small chorus matched with a small orchestra. I have chosen, therefore, to have about an equal number of instrumentalists alongside a group of twelve singers capable of both solo and consort singing, as Bach would have had in Leipzig." Monica leads the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the fourth-largest period-instrument ensemble in the US, where she has been Artistic Director since 1995. Joining the orchestra is Portland-based choir Cappella Romana and baroque specialist, English tenor Charles Daniels as the Evangelist. Full sung texts in the original German with English translations are included in the CD package.

The voice of Christian music is going to Broadway. Sandi Patty releases her debut American Pops album Broadway Stories on October 18. Featuring songs from iconic musicals like The Music Man, Hello Dolly! and Showboat, the 5-time Grammy Award winner shows her vocal prowess through some of the most well-known pieces from stage and screen. Highlights on the album include a medley of music from The Sound of Music, a collection of songs typically sung by men but done in Sandi s own style on A Doll Sings The Guys, the haunting rendition of Send In The Clowns and the show-stopping finale You ll Never Walk Alone. Recorded in Prague, Czech Republic, with a lush 64 piece Symphony Orchestra and under the direction of Maestro Jack Everly, Sandi Patty s upcoming new album is being described as a highlight of her musical career. Join Sandi on a journey through her own Broadway Stories.

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Frutillar, Chille, 2012: With Sivann Maayani Zelikoff