Buy New Classical Tracks: Fantasia
The cover art for Fantasia features Yuja Wang perched on a grand piano, looking a bit like the black swan, dressed in a red flowing skirt and black, fluffy wings. It’s a visual representation of what you’ll find on this recording: music depicting the age-old struggle between the dark side and the angelic side. — Julie Amacher
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If you love choral music, now there’s a music service just for you. Classical Minnesota Public Radio is proud to present the Choral Stream, a 24/7 online audio service with an exclusively choral playlist. You’ll discover a range of choirs and musical styles: from college choirs to professional ensembles, from baroque to Bernstein — plus a whole lot of other voices and settings in between.
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Highlights:
Glory! Music of Rejoicing By Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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This Is the Day By John Rutter and The Cambridge Singers
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Magnificat: 500 Years of Choral Masterworks
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New Classical Tracks: Harp, not Harpsichord, in Bach’s Sonatas
A new Bach disc combines violin with an instrument that Bach himself rarely used — the harp. Its gradations of loud and soft add a new dimension to the performance of these pieces.
Most would agree Bach probably was ahead himself, which is one reason his music has withstood the test of time. He would probably also approve of this new recording which illuminates his sonatas in a refreshing new light.
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Chopin Liszt Ravel by Benjamin Grosvenor
New Classical Tracks: An Influential Young Pianist
Benjamin Grosvenor is making a big splash nowadays, in his native England and internationally. He’s just 19, but a lot of mature thought has gone into his new disc of virtuoso piano music.
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The Soviet Experience by The Pacifica Quartet
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MPR: Pacifica Quartet completes the Beethoven Cycle
Cedille presents the second installment in the Pacifica Quartet’s highly anticipated, four-volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries. The Soviet Experience is the first Shostakovich quartet cycle to include works by other important composers of the Soviet era, adding variety and perspective to the listening experience. Volume 2 features five works from the period surrounding World War II: 1938 - 1949. Included are Shostakovich’s surprisingly sunny and spring-like Quartet No. 1; his often symphonic-sounding Quartet No. 2; the emotionally-powerful Third Quartet, one of Shostakovich’s greatest chamber music masterpieces; his Fourth Quartet, notable especially for its ‘Jewish’-themed finale; and Prokofiev’s folk-influenced Quartet No. 2. Volume 1 received universal praise on both sides of the Atlantic and was included on the best classical albums of 2011 lists of The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker, San Jose Mercury News, Newark Star-Ledger, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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