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Nico Muhly looks at the Utah Environment in “Control” (Five Landscapes for Orchestra)
Composer Nico MuhlyPhoto: Ana Cuba The Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust release features three new world premieres. Find out about Nico Muhly’s work Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) and watch/listen to a preview from the Utah Symphony: Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) is a sequence of five episodes describing, in some way, an element of Utah’s natural environment, as well as the ways in which humans interact with it. The first part (Landform) begins with a texture of strings, interrupted by forceful…
John Mackey Talks Wine Dark Sea with West Virginia Public Radio
John Mackey talks about his work Wine Dark Sea with West Virginia Public Radio’s Matt Jackfert: Your browser des not support the audio element – please try updating to the latest version of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Opera. See the feature and listen to the interview on wvpublic.org Wine Dark Sea ReferenceRecordings.com Amazon ArkivMusic Apple Music Spotify
Nico Muhly Talks About His Dawn To Dust Work “Control”
Composer Nico MuhlyPhoto: Ana Cuba Alexander Ortega looks at the commissioned works on Utah Symphony’s upcoming Dawn To Dust recording and interviews Nico Muhly about his process for Control: “Muhly, a renowned artist, took advantage of the USUO-contracted theme of Utah’s southerly landscape by accompanying the orchestra on their Mighty 5 tour of Utah’s national parks last year. Muhly illustrates the parks’ “interactive state” with people—whether it be early settlers’ industriousness in reaction to the…
American Record Guide Reviews Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven!
“The music is always pressing forward, as on a life-or-death mission. It’s dramatic and exciting…this is Beethoven driven by a carefully thought-out, masterly vision that’s brilliantly executed. None of this would work very well if the Pittsburgh Symphony were not fully up to the task. I’d be hard-pressed to say you’ll hear more technical dexterity or intensity of execution in Vienna or Berlin or Amsterdam. … I like it very much. Honeck’s interpretation of the…
I Care If You Listen TV Features the Utah Symphony!
I Care If You Listen TV features the latest videos from the Utah Symphony! Dawn To Dust World Premieres of Three Works Commissioned by the Utah Symphony Utah Symphony Thierry Fischer, Music Director Pre-Order on Amazon Today DAWN TO DUST contains live recordings of three significant and adventurous works by leading composers Augusta Read Thomas, Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman. World-renowned percussionist Colin Currie performs on Andrew Norman’s “Switch.”
Is Box and Dice Fiona Boyes’ Best Yet?
“Ever since she won the solo acoustic category in the International Blues Challenge of 2003 (the first woman and the first Australian to do so) Fiona Boyes has been as unstoppable as a wild fire. She’s won more awards and accolades than you can shake a guitar at and she gathers more fans with each new release. The release at hand will likely bring even more into the fray. … Outside of three wonderful covers,…
Get Ready to Dance with Augusta Read Thomas and EOS!
The Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust release features three new world premieres. Find out about Augusta Read Thomas’ work EOS (Goddess of the Dawn), A ballet for orchestra and watch/listen to a preview from the Utah Symphony: Photo © by Anthony Barlich My catalogue includes 45 additional works for orchestra or orchestral concerti, and I conceived most of my orchestral and chamber works as suitable for dance. I stand at the drafting table as I…
Wine Dark Sea Debuts in the Billboard Chart
Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble’s Wine Dark Sea Debuts at #20 in the Billboard Classical Chart! Wine Dark Sea ReferenceRecordings.com Amazon ArkivMusic Apple Music Spotify
Latest Releases are HDTracks Top 25 Recordings
Our latest release Wine Dark Sea is already a top-25 bestseller on HDtracks, but it’s not the only Top-25 RR recording on their list! See some of the recordings below and click the image to view them all on HDtracks.com!
Andrew Norman’s “Switch” A Game of Control
The Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust release features three new world premieres. Find out about Andrew Norman’s work Switch and watch/listen to a preview from the Utah Symphony: Andrew Norman © Jessa Anderson During rehearsals for the premiere performances of Switch, Colin Currie gave me an amazing metaphor for the piece. He said that playing Switch feels like being trapped (in the best possible way) inside a giant pinball machine. It’s an apt image for…
Wine Dark Sea is “another Rolls-Royce”
MusicWeb reviews Wine Dark Sea: “Dan Welcher, whose Spumante opens with the popping of a cork, is new to me. This engaging piece, commissioned by the Boston Pops, is rather more subtle than its effervescent title might suggest… Welcher casts the net wide… I’ve not encountered the music of Donald Grantham before, but his Louisiana-inspired J’ai été au bal (I went to the dance), with its artful use of Cajun tunes, is an ear-pricking, toe-tapping…
A First Listen to Utah Symphony’s “Dawn To Dust”
Dawn To Dust World Premieres of Three Works Commissioned by the Utah Symphony Utah Symphony Thierry Fischer, Music Director Pre-Order on Amazon Today First Listen: DAWN TO DUST contains live recordings of three significant and adventurous works by leading composers Augusta Read Thomas, Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman. World-renowned percussionist Colin Currie performs on Andrew Norman’s “Switch.” The Utah Symphony, celebrating its 75th anniversary in the 2015-16 season, is one of America’s major symphony orchestras…
#NowPlaying on YouTube Music — Wine Dark Sea
Wine Dark Sea is streaming now on YouTube Music: Wine Dark Sea Jerry Junkin, conductor The University of Texas Wind Ensemble Nathan Williams Purchase Today: ReferenceRecordings.com Amazon ArkivMusic Apple Music Spotify
Wine Dark Sea Is Available Today
Wine Dark Sea Jerry Junkin, conductor The University of Texas Wind Ensemble Nathan Williams The University of Texas Wind Ensemble has firmly established itself as one of America’s elite wind bands Active in the area of commissioning new music since 1988, the group has offered world premiere performances of works by many composers including John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, and Dan Welcher. One of the guiding principles of the ensemble is contact…
Meet Nathan Williams
New release, Wine Dark Sea features Frank Ticheli’s Concerto for Clarinet performed by clarinetist Nathan Williams. Meet this performer today: An internationally celebrated soloist and chamber musician, clarinetist Nathan Williams has recently been praised for his “sublime control”, “silky sound”, and “dazzling technique”. He is the principal clarinetist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston and, along with pianist Audrey Andrist and violinist James Stern, is a founding member of Strata, a trio that…