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Corigliano & Gaudete Brass: February 2017 Playlist
February 2017 brings a new album from Chicago’s Gaudete Brass celebrating American composer John Corigliano: “sevenfive — The John Corigliano Effect” (street date Feb. 10). Our monthly playlist alternates tracks by Corigliano with tracks from Gaudete’s Cedille debut album, “Chicago Moves.” Also featured are tracks from “Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano,” recorded by Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal, and “American Orchestral Works” recorded by Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra.
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From Chicago-based composter Stacy Garrop comes INVICTUS, Latin for “unconquered.” The work unfolds across four movements and an interlude, moving between lyrical introspection, fierce determination, and triumphant resolve, with Grammy-nominated pianist Marta Aznavoorian and the Chicago Philharmonic under the direction of Artistic Director Scott Speck. Available 5/8.
Haymarket Opera Company presents early-18th-century master Leonardo Vinci’s rare operatic gem, Artaserse (1730). A prominent figure of the Neapolitan School of opera, whose work influenced composers such as Johann Adolph Hasse and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Vinci’s three-act opera seria centers on the Persian prince, Artaserse, who must bring his father’s murderer to justice amidst betrayal, deceit, and mistaken identity.
In anticipation of the June 12 digital single release of Mischa Zupko:Harpsichord Concerto, this month’s playlist features that very instrument and its many personalities. There’s delicacy in Lully’s Passacaille contrasted by Soler’s muscular Keyboard Sonata No. 81 in G Minor. Appearing both accompanied and unaccompanied, the harpsichord takes center stage this month.
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