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African-American Music Appreciation Month Playlist
June is African-American Music Appreciation Month (fka Black Music Month). We celebrate with a playlist by African, African-American, and other African descended composers. Featured artists and composers include the Chicago Sinfonietta, Rachel Barton Pine, Chicago a cappella, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Sanford Allen, and more. Happy listening!
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The Pacifica Quartet presents The Korngold Collection, a landmark recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s complete string quartets and rarely heard chamber works tracing the composer’s extraordinary evolution from prodigy of post-imperial Vienna to pioneering film composer in Hollywood
Acclaimed concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine, sought-after pianist Orion Weiss, and the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet join forces for their new album French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre, celebrating captivating works by French composers Ernest Chausson and Germaine Tailleferre, whose chamber music deserves greater attention on recordings.
Selections come in order of birth date, from Viktor Ullmann’s (Jan. 1) bracing “Schnitterlied” (Reaper’s song) to the sublime finale of Franz Schubert’s (Jan. 31) last piano sonata — a cross-section that demonstrates the breadth of Cedille Records’ catalog.
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