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Welcome to our new website!
WELCOME!
We hope our new website provides you with an improved experience so that our artists’ work is more accessible to you and classical music listeners everywhere. After all, you the listener are a vital component of our unique not-for-profit mission: to record Chicago’s finest classical musicians and promote them to a world-wide listening audience.
Please explore the site, see what it has to offer, and let us know what can be improved. In addition to the updated look and feel, it has new features that we hope you will enjoy:
- Purchase individual tracks so you can add to your collection by work, movement, or however you like.
- Sample every track from our newer recordings!
- Improved and more reliable FLAC downloads.
- Submit a review of your latest Cedille discovery. Your thoughts and feedback are important to us and our artists — we’re very excited to learn what you think! Be the first to review a 2015 release and we’ll give you $10 off your next order.
- A new media player: select from two channels on our site-wide player:
1) Selected tracks from our latest releases
2) A weekly featured Cedille Chicago Presents podcast
We’ll use this blog to keep you informed about Cedille and our work with Chicago’s finest artists. Expect posts on new recordings, events, and ways you can get more involved. You’ll hear from our artists, Board members and donors, and members of Cedille’s staff.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, leave us a comment below or email us at info@cedillerecords.org.
Best regards and happy listening,
James Ginsburg
President
Recommended
In celebration of Earth Day, Cedille Records releases the world premiere recording of Stacy Garrop’s monumental oratorio Terra Nostra, “a spellbinding dive into the history of the planet” (Chicago Classical Review). Terra Nostra explores the relationship between humanity and Earth, and how humankind can re-establish a harmonious balance.
In anticipation of the Earth Day (April 22) release of Stacy Garrop‘s oratorio Terra Nostra, a playlist of pieces about our planet, its scenic places, creatures, natural resources, seasons, etc. Tracks from Terra Nostra will be added upon its 4/22 release.
Enjoy 25% off of Cedille’s Featured Release.
On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with celebrated composer Stacy Garrop about her experience composing and recording Cedille’s latest release, Terra Nostra. The multifarious text weaves together creation myths from India, North America, and Egypt, excerpts from the Bible’s Old Testament, classic poetry from Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and contemporary writings by Esther Iverem and Wendell Berry, among others.