What’s new? Why, new releases!
It’s been too long since I last did one of these shows, which means I’ve got a shelf-full of material from which to choose. Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB to hear Yo-Yo Ma perform the cello concerto, “Azul” (Spanish for “Blue”), by Osvaldo Golijov, with The Knights (orchestra), on Warner Classics & Erato. Watch out for that hyper-accordion!
Caroline Shaw reaches across the centuries to Dietrich Buxtehude in “To the Hands,” performed by Philadelphia-based The Crossing (choral ensemble), as part of a fascinating concept album on the Innova Recordings label, “Seven Responses,” in which contemporary composers reflect on Buxtehude’s cycle of seven cantatas, “Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima” (“Most Holy Limbs of Our Suffering Jesus”).
At 9:00, Clipper Erickson, piano, who is on the faculties of both Westminster Conservatory of Music and Boyer College of Music and Dance – Temple University, will drop by the studio to talk about his new release of piano music by Laurie Altman, on Neos (record label). Erickson will be performing music by R. Nathaniel Dett and Modest Mussorgsky in recital at Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton on Saturday at 5 p.m.
At 10:00 tomorrow, I’ll be joined by composer Zhou Tian, whose “Broken Ink” will be given its US premiere by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov, at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Sunday at 4 p.m. Our conversation will be followed by a broadcast of Zhou’s brilliantly orchestrated Concerto for Orchestra, written for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The recording was issued on the orchestra’s Fanfare Cincinnati label.
We’ll also hear new recordings of music by John Adams performed by Alarm Will Sound (Cantaloupe Music), Richard Strauss by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos), Schumann by pianist Joyce Yang and the Alexander String Quartet, and John Williams by the FilmHarmonic Brass (Roven Records).
May the Fourth be with you, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. We find release in recent acquisitions, on Classic Ross Amico.
