DCD 031 - A Cornucopia of Con Brio

About the time I was starting to work on program #31, a batch of new releases arrived from the Con Brio label. With more than enough material to fill an edition of the DCD Classical 'Cast, deciding to turn the program into a Con Brio showcase seemed only natural.

We begin with two selections from Noëlle Compinsky Tinturin's release "American Portraits: Piano Music by American Composers." Also on the program is a work written for the phenomenal tuba virtuoso Barton Cummings, with Cummings (who commissioned the work) performing.

And we end with something from "American Scenes, Volume 1" by Patrick Bechman. This accomplished pianist/composer created and recorded a series of musical impressions of several American cities. This program we play a selection from volume 1, and next time we'll have something from volume 2.

- Ralph


This program we play:

Turpin: St. Louis Rag
Noëlle Compinsky Tinturin, piano
Con Brio

Delmonte: Night on the Pampa
Noëlle Compinsky Tinturin, piano
Celine Grietzen, cello

Grundman: Tuba Rhapsody for Tuba and Band
Barton Cummings, tuba
Con Brio

Bechman: Memphis Toccata
Patrick Bechman, piano
Con Brio

DCD 030 - Violin Solo, and Violin in Ensemble

In this episode of the "DCD Classical 'Cast," we celebrate the release of the "Violin Solo" series from Troubadisc Recordings. The third volume of this outstanding series concentrates on the solo violin music of Paul Hindemith, and features two of his previously unrecorded works for the violin. Eggebrecht also includes two world premiere recordings by two modern composers -- Anatol Vieru and Vladimir Martynov.

For this podcast we play two selections from the SACD "Violin Solo, Volume 3." We also include some of Eggebrecht's ensemble work (in a piano trio and as part of the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet) to round out the program.

- Ralph

This program we play:
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 11 No. 6 in G minor (mvt. 1)
Renate Eggebrecht, violin
Troubadisc

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: The Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11 (mvts. 2 & 3)
Renate Eggebrecht, violin; Friedemann Kuspa, cello; Stefan Mickisch, piano
Troubadisc

Anatol Vieru: Capriccio for solo violin
Renate Eggebrecht, violin
Troubadisc

Arthur Bliss: String Quartet No. 2 in F minor (mvt. 4)
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet
Troubadisc