New works by Cornelius BootsIt’s the world’s only composing ensemble of four bass clarinetists. It’s named after a nonexistent author. Its musical influences include boogie-woogie, 19th century salon music, pop, grunge, hard gospel, blues, rock, metal, Renaissance motets and jazz. It’s Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet, purveyors of “heavy chamber music, muzak for conspiracy […]
Continue readingDichterliebe, Op. 48 by Robert Schumann; The Praises of God; Monks and Raisins; The Desire for Hermitage; and I Hear an Army by Samuel Barber; Don Quichotte à Dulcinée by Maurice Ravel; Songs of Weather by Ottorino Respighi; Bright is the Ring of Words; Let Beauty Awake; and The Vagabond by Ralph Vaughan Williams; When […]
Continue readingfeaturing special guests Carmen Lemoine and the San Francisco Guitar Quartet
Continue readingFantasia by Tadao Sawai; Zangetsu by Minezaki Koto; Homura by Tadao SawaiKazue Sawai is recognized as Japan’s most outstanding, innovative and versatile master of the koto, a stringed zitherlike instrument that is lionized by the Japanese as their country’s “national instrument.” Sawai, traditionally trained but committed to expanding her instrument’s audience, shifts flawlessly from conventional […]
Continue readingThe Complete Piano Sonatas of Franz Schubert: Concert II
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