On December 17, violinist Ariana Kim will release Routes of Evanescence, a solo album featuring music by American women composers Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Jennifer Curtis, Augusta Read Thomas, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Tonia Ko. The Bang on a Can All-Stars are featured on a new Cantaloupe recording of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields, with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Sony Classical has released Igor Stravinsky: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a boxed set of Stravinsky’s works made for CBS/American Columbia from the 1940s to the 1960s; included are 56 CDs, a DVD, and a hardcover book. Cedille Records has released Mythology Symphony, a five-movement symphony by Stacy Garrop depicting female figures from Greek mythology. Alondra de la Parra conducts the Chicago College of Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra in the work, which was composed via commissions from the Detroit and Albany symphony orchestras and Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. The production company Giants Are Small and Deutsche Grammophon have released Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood, an interactive iPad app that is narrated by rock musician Alice Cooper and described as a multimedia interpretation of the Prokofiev score. Decca has released Seiji Ozawa: Ravel, featuring L’enfant et les sortilèges and Shéhérazade with the Saito Kinen Orchestra and mezzo-sopranos Isabel Leonard and Susan Graham. David Newman conducts the Los Angeles-based Varèse Sarabande Symphony Orchestra in 1985 at the Movies, a new recording featuring movie themes by Maurice Jarre, Michael Kamen, Jerry Goldsmith, Quincy Jones, John Williams, and Georges Delerue.
Posted December 14, 2015
