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Friday Listening: August 19, 2022

Friday Listening: August 19, 2022
Hulda Guzmán, Dive into Love (2021)
  • "Music for Growing Flowers" - 31 minutes of new music from Scottish composer Erland Cooper, a wash of ear-calming sounds combining field recordings, traditional orchestration, and contemporary electronic elements
  • "Bach & Seabourne: Toccatas & Fantasies" - in a display of elegant virtuosity, pianist Konstantin Lifschitz performs pieces by J.S. & C.P.E. Bach alongside pieces from English composer Peter Seabourne
  • "No Place to Go but Around" - a collection of American composer Frederic Rzewski's more lyrical works, performed by pianist (and friend of the composer) Lisa Moore
  • "As We Are" - saxophonist (and winner of Cedille Records' first Emerging Artist Competition) Julian Velasco plays contemporary music for soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone
  • "Vagn Holmboe: String Quartets, Vol. 2" - Danish composer Vagn Holmboe's works for string quartet are lyrical and curious, performed here in convincing interpretations from the Nightingale Quartet
  • "Secret Love Letters" - violinist Lisa Batiashvili collaborates with The Philadelphia Orchestra on an album of romantic music, featuring works by Franck, Szymanowski, Chausson, and Debussy. "This album celebrates the fine art of concealment, of holding private passions just beneath the surface until they erupt."