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On Friday, June 4, 2021, Orchid Classics will release DIALOGO, the debut album of cellist John-Henry Crawford, First Prize Winner of the IX International Carlos Prieto Cello Competition and the Classical Recording Foundation s 2019 Young Artist of the Year. Playing a rare 200-year-old cello smuggled out of Austria by his grandfather, Robert Popper, Crawford performs Brahms Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99 and Shostakovich s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40 with pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion, as well as Ligeti s Sonata for Solo Cello, all recorded and engineered by GRAMMY Award-winning engineer Adam Abeshouse. Crawford writes in the notes, This program explores several different modes of a concept that is vital to the fabric of our lives, our relationships, and even the progress of our society as a whole - dialogue. The opening movement of the Ligeti Sonata, titled Dialogo, is an ideal musical encapsulation of this theme and the inspiration ....
Basil Twist s Underwater Masterwork SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE Is Now A Film SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE - Basil Twist s now-legendary underwater puppet production set in a 1,000-gallon fish tank - will be released as a film on VIDEO ON DEMAND December 18, it has been announced by Mr. Twist, who makes his full-length film directorial debut. Created for the theater by Mr. Twist in 1998, SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE is set to the celebrated classic score of Hector Berlioz s 19th century composition. The film of SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE was shot during several live performances in front of an audience in 2018 when Mr. Twist s acclaimed adaptation of SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE was revived at the HERE Arts Center in NYC on the occasion of the work s 20th anniversary. That production marked the first time Twist s creation had been performed to live musical accompaniment; piano virtuoso Christopher O Riley was the accompanist, and appears in the hour-long film. ....