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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.
To celebrate Stacy Garrop‘s piano concerto, INVICTUS (5/8 release), based on a poem about perseverance and resilience in adversity, a playlist of Cedille tracks that represent struggle against prohibitive odds — explicitly in words or as program music, or inherently in their musical nature.
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