Cedille Records Announces 2011 Release Schedule
Chicago, IL, February 04, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Cedille Records, the Grammy Award-winning, Chicago-based independent classical record label, has announced its CD releases for 2011.
Cedille’s first new album of the year, "In Eleanor’s Words: Music of Stacy Garrop" (CDR 90000 122), arrives February 22. Garrop is a Chicago-based composer with a burgeoning career and many awards to her credit. The album brings the world premiere recordings of her "Silver Dagger" for violin, cello, and piano; "In Eleanor’s Words," a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano based on first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s syndicated newspaper columns; and String Quartet No. 3, “Gaia.” Performers are the Lincoln Trio, mezzo-soprano Buffy Baggott and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang, and the Biava Quartet.
Cedille plans to release three titles on May 31. The virtuosic, Grammy Award-winning new-music sextet eighth blackbird will be heard on "Lonely Hotel: Music from ‘Slide,’" the world-premiere recording of material from the concert-length music-theater work by composer-performer Steve Mackey (Cedille Records CDR 90000 123).
Pianist Ursula Oppens will add to her Cedille discography with "Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano" (Cedille Records CDR 9000 124). The CD will mark the world-premiere recording of the title work, "Winging It: Improvisations for Solo Piano," which Oppens introduced in 2009. She also performs Corigliano’s virtuoso showpieces "Etude Fantasy" and "Fantasia on an Ostinato." She’s joined by pianist Jerome Lowenthal for the two-piano work "Kaleidoscope" and the unique "Chiaroscuro" for two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart.
Rachel Barton Pine, Cedille’s all-time best-selling artist, performs solo violin works with a Latin flavor on "Capricho Latino" (Cedille Records CDR 90000 125). The CD includes music by José White, José Serebrier, Manuel Quiroga, Eugene Ysaÿe, Francisco Tarrega, Isaac Albeniz, César Espejo, Roque Cordero, Luis Jorge González, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Alan Ridout. Ridout’s “Ferdinando el toro” (Ferdinand the Bull) will be narrated (in English) by veteran stage, screen, and TV actor Hector Elizondo.
Summer CDs will include "The Pulitzer Project", a program of three Pulitzer Prize-winning works performed by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Carlos Kalmar (Cedille Records CDR 90000 126). Notably, the CD includes two world-premiere recordings: William Schuman’s cantata "A Free Song," winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for music, and Leo Sowerby’s "The Canticle of the Sun," the 1946 Pulitzer winner. Also on the album is Aaron Copland’s 1945 Pulitzer-winning "Appalachian Spring Suite" (for orchestra alone). The CD will be released either in late July or late August.
The Lincoln Trio, winner of the 2008 Masterplayers International Competition in Venice, Italy, is featured on "Notable Women: Music by Today’s Female Composers," available August 30 (Cedille Records CDR 90000 127). Trio members Desirée Ruhstrat, violin; David Cunliffe, cello; and Marta Aznavoorian, piano, perform the world-premiere recordings of trios by Lera Auerbach, Stacy Garrop, Laura Schwendinger, and Joan Tower, plus trios by Jennifer Higdon and Augusta Read Thomas.
The Pacifica Quartet, Musical America’s 2009 Ensemble of the Year and winner of a 2009 Grammy Award, will be heard this fall in the first installment of its four-part CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets, complemented by quartets from other Soviet-era composers. "The Soviet Experience: Quartets by Shostakovich and his Compatriots, Volume I" — a two-CD set priced as a single disc — will be released either in late September or late October (Cedille Records CDR 90000 128). Works will include Shostakovich Quartets Nos. 5–8 and Miaskovsky’s Quartet No. 13.
Violinist Pine and her colleagues in period-instrument ensemble Trio Settecento — viola da gamba player John Mark Rozendaal and keyboard artist David Schrader — continue their country-by-country survey of European Baroque music with "A French Soirée" (Cedille Records CDR 90000 129). The all-French CD, also to be released in late September or late October, will be the third installment in the trio’s acclaimed series that currently includes "An Italian Sojourn" and "A German Bouquet."
Cedille Records
Grammy award-winning Cedille Records (pronounced say-DEE) has been dedicated to showcasing the most noteworthy classical artists in and from the Chicago area since its launch in late 1989.
The audiophile-oriented label recently introduced CD-quality album downloads in the “lossless” FLAC format, available directly via its Web site, http://www.cedillerecords.org. Cedille albums are also available there as physical CDs and extra-high-quality MP3 file downloads.
An independent nonprofit enterprise, Cedille is the label of The Chicago Classical Recording Foundation. For a free catalog and the locations of local retail outlets, contact Cedille Records, 1205 W. Balmoral Ave., Chicago, IL 60640; call (773) 989-2515; e-mail: info@cedillerecords.org.
Cedille Records is distributed in the Western Hemisphere by Naxos of America and its distribution partners, by Select Music in the U.K., and by other independent distributors in major international classical music markets.
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Cedille’s first new album of the year, "In Eleanor’s Words: Music of Stacy Garrop" (CDR 90000 122), arrives February 22. Garrop is a Chicago-based composer with a burgeoning career and many awards to her credit. The album brings the world premiere recordings of her "Silver Dagger" for violin, cello, and piano; "In Eleanor’s Words," a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano based on first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s syndicated newspaper columns; and String Quartet No. 3, “Gaia.” Performers are the Lincoln Trio, mezzo-soprano Buffy Baggott and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang, and the Biava Quartet.
Cedille plans to release three titles on May 31. The virtuosic, Grammy Award-winning new-music sextet eighth blackbird will be heard on "Lonely Hotel: Music from ‘Slide,’" the world-premiere recording of material from the concert-length music-theater work by composer-performer Steve Mackey (Cedille Records CDR 90000 123).
Pianist Ursula Oppens will add to her Cedille discography with "Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano" (Cedille Records CDR 9000 124). The CD will mark the world-premiere recording of the title work, "Winging It: Improvisations for Solo Piano," which Oppens introduced in 2009. She also performs Corigliano’s virtuoso showpieces "Etude Fantasy" and "Fantasia on an Ostinato." She’s joined by pianist Jerome Lowenthal for the two-piano work "Kaleidoscope" and the unique "Chiaroscuro" for two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart.
Rachel Barton Pine, Cedille’s all-time best-selling artist, performs solo violin works with a Latin flavor on "Capricho Latino" (Cedille Records CDR 90000 125). The CD includes music by José White, José Serebrier, Manuel Quiroga, Eugene Ysaÿe, Francisco Tarrega, Isaac Albeniz, César Espejo, Roque Cordero, Luis Jorge González, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Alan Ridout. Ridout’s “Ferdinando el toro” (Ferdinand the Bull) will be narrated (in English) by veteran stage, screen, and TV actor Hector Elizondo.
Summer CDs will include "The Pulitzer Project", a program of three Pulitzer Prize-winning works performed by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Carlos Kalmar (Cedille Records CDR 90000 126). Notably, the CD includes two world-premiere recordings: William Schuman’s cantata "A Free Song," winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for music, and Leo Sowerby’s "The Canticle of the Sun," the 1946 Pulitzer winner. Also on the album is Aaron Copland’s 1945 Pulitzer-winning "Appalachian Spring Suite" (for orchestra alone). The CD will be released either in late July or late August.
The Lincoln Trio, winner of the 2008 Masterplayers International Competition in Venice, Italy, is featured on "Notable Women: Music by Today’s Female Composers," available August 30 (Cedille Records CDR 90000 127). Trio members Desirée Ruhstrat, violin; David Cunliffe, cello; and Marta Aznavoorian, piano, perform the world-premiere recordings of trios by Lera Auerbach, Stacy Garrop, Laura Schwendinger, and Joan Tower, plus trios by Jennifer Higdon and Augusta Read Thomas.
The Pacifica Quartet, Musical America’s 2009 Ensemble of the Year and winner of a 2009 Grammy Award, will be heard this fall in the first installment of its four-part CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets, complemented by quartets from other Soviet-era composers. "The Soviet Experience: Quartets by Shostakovich and his Compatriots, Volume I" — a two-CD set priced as a single disc — will be released either in late September or late October (Cedille Records CDR 90000 128). Works will include Shostakovich Quartets Nos. 5–8 and Miaskovsky’s Quartet No. 13.
Violinist Pine and her colleagues in period-instrument ensemble Trio Settecento — viola da gamba player John Mark Rozendaal and keyboard artist David Schrader — continue their country-by-country survey of European Baroque music with "A French Soirée" (Cedille Records CDR 90000 129). The all-French CD, also to be released in late September or late October, will be the third installment in the trio’s acclaimed series that currently includes "An Italian Sojourn" and "A German Bouquet."
Cedille Records
Grammy award-winning Cedille Records (pronounced say-DEE) has been dedicated to showcasing the most noteworthy classical artists in and from the Chicago area since its launch in late 1989.
The audiophile-oriented label recently introduced CD-quality album downloads in the “lossless” FLAC format, available directly via its Web site, http://www.cedillerecords.org. Cedille albums are also available there as physical CDs and extra-high-quality MP3 file downloads.
An independent nonprofit enterprise, Cedille is the label of The Chicago Classical Recording Foundation. For a free catalog and the locations of local retail outlets, contact Cedille Records, 1205 W. Balmoral Ave., Chicago, IL 60640; call (773) 989-2515; e-mail: info@cedillerecords.org.
Cedille Records is distributed in the Western Hemisphere by Naxos of America and its distribution partners, by Select Music in the U.K., and by other independent distributors in major international classical music markets.
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