Orchestras in California, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas are among those with recent recordings news. The American Composers Orchestra, based in New York City, has released its fourth digital album, Orchestra Underground: A-V, featuring multimedia works by Margaret Brouwer (with artist Kasumi), Sebastian Currier (with artist Pawel Wojtasik), and Michael Gandolfi (with artist Ean White). On February 22, the Austin Symphony Orchestra launched a 30-day Kickstarter campaign to raise $30,000 toward the cost of producing its first commercial recording, which will spotlight music by American composer Edward Burlingame Hill: Symphony No. 4, two concertinos, and a divertimento for piano and orchestra, with soloist Anton Nel. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, whose two most recent BMOP/sound CD releases feature music by Milton Babbitt and George Antheil, is also crowdsourcing funding for a new CD of music by Boston-area composer Scott Wheeler, via the nonprofit Hatchfund (formerly USA Projects). The Los Angeles Philharmonic has released the first recording of John Adams’s oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary, led by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and recorded in March 2013 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, on the Deutsche Grammophon label. On February 25, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will release a recording of Beethoven’s fifth and sevenths symphonies, taken from 2010 and 2012 performances at Carnegie Hall. It is Orpheus’s first self-produced album and will be distributed by Naxos.
Posted February 24, 2014
