Several U.S. orchestras and other music groups have issued new recordings as CDs and in a variety of digital formats. The Albany Symphony Orchestra in New York has released a new Naxos CD featuring Music Director David Alan Miller leading two works by John Corigliano: his percussion concerto, with Evelyn Glennie as soloist, and Vocalise, with soprano Hila Plitmann as soloist. The Buffalo Philharmonic and JoAnn Falletta, its music director, have released the first recording of Marcel Tyberg’s Symphony No. 2, paired with his Piano Sonata No. 2, on the Naxos label. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti have released Verdi’s Otello on the orchestra’s CSO Resound label, featuring the CSO, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children’s Choir, and vocal soloists, recorded live in 2011. On October 29, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music’s first CDs with Naxos, the new distributor for the entire Oberlin Music catalog, will be released. They are Ravel: Intimate Masterpieces, with Oberlin faculty harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, and Lorenzo Palomo’s symphonic poem Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches, performed by the Oberlin Orchestra. The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have released a new CD of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring on the Deutsche Grammophon label; also included are four orchestral transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski of Bach and Stravinsky works.
Posted October 16, 2013
