Led by trombonist and early music specialist Michael Kris, the Kris Collective brings together musicians from across two continents performing on modern instruments. Their album Cor Collaborandi celebrates the cross-pollination of musical ideas between the Venetian and Spanish schools of the early Baroque. In his program notes, Michael Kris says: “Music of the 16th to 18th centuries was transmitted artist …
Cor Collaborandi: A Transnational Celebration of the Early Modern
Playlist
Giovanni Battista Grillo: Sonata No. 2 a 7
Orlandus Lassus: “Magnificat” on the 2nd tone, “Ultimi miei sospiri”
Pietro Lappi: “La Negrona” and “L’Arborea”
Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Sonata a 6
Gabrieli: Madrigal, “Lieto godea”
Philippe Rogier: “Laudate Dominum”
Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio: Canzon a 8, “La Porta”
Sarahbanda
Berlin Philharmonic French hornist Sarah Willis’s three-album Mozart y Mambo project fused Mozart with Cuban rhythms. Besides recording all of Mozart’s horn concertos, the project also experimented with the French horn joining the traditional Cuban band mix of saxophone and rhythm section. Willis loved this grouping so much that she subsequently formed the Sarahbanda with some of Cuba’s most talented …
Her Song
Austin based Grammy-nominated baritone, trumpeter, and pianist, Michael Hawes (former Chicagoan and former member of Axiom Brass) has devoted his first solo album to the music of Florence Price. Hawes sings most of the selections with pianist Eugenia Jeong. Four of the songs are performed on the trumpet. A brass ensemble, which includes the distinguished trombonist Randall Hawes, Michael’s father, …
Playlist
All works composed by Florence Price
Five songs for voice and piano
Four songs arranged for Trumpet and piano
Adoration arranged for trumpet and brass ensemble
Octet for Brasses and Piano (complete + 2nd mvmt)
