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Seven

September 16, 2024, 6:00 am

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Composer and cellist Andrea Casarrubios poses with her cello by her side. She is looking down on the instrument with a soft expression and wearing a pink dress.

Award-winning Spanish cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios returns with Seven, which features seven of her most recent chamber works, all in world-premiere recordings. Alongside works for solo cello or cello and piano, this recording features her Piano Quintet, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra commission for the distinctive combination of clarinet, violin, viola and cello. At the heart of this collection lies …

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All works composed by Andrea Casarrubios

SEVEN
Armadura
24 Mozas
Mensajes del agua
Silbo
Afilador
Piano Quintet

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Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence, Serenades

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Magnus Lindberg looks pensively from his desk

Composer Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) is one of Europe’s leading names in contemporary music. This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Nicholas Collon features some of the most recent orchestral compositions by Lindberg culminating with his new Viola Concerto, a performed by Lawrence Power as soloist. Lindberg was commissioned by the Rotterdam Philharmonic to …

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Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto
Magnus Lindberg: Absence
Magnus Lindberg: Serenades

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Carlos Simon: Four Symphonic Works

August 19, 2024, 6:00 am

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Carlos Simon

The gradual rollout of the National Symphony Orchestra’s recordings of symphonic works by Carlos Simon is completed with his Songs of Separation and Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra. Based on poems of Rumi, Songs of Separation (four) was commissioned by the NSO and features mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges. Wake Up! was inspired by the poem “Awake, Asleep” by Nepali poet Rajendra …

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  1. The Block
  2. Tales – a Folklore Symphony: I. Motherboxx Connection 
  3. Tales – a Folklore Symphony: II. Flying Africans 
  4. Tales – a Folklore Symphony: III. Go Down Moses (Let My People Go) 
  5. Tales – a Folklore Symphony: IV. John Henry 
  6. Songs of Separation: I. the Garden 
  7. Songs of Separation: II. Burning Hell 
  8. Songs of Separation: III. Dance 
  9. Songs of Separation: IV. We Are All the Same 
  10. Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra