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Friday Listening: August 5, 2022

Friday Listening: August 5, 2022
Asuka Nirasawa, An entrance to (2022)
  • "Winter Moons" - two newly-recorded works from Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate form the core of this album, but one stands out: Winter Moons, a ballet (arranged here for chamber orchestra) based upon American Indian legends from the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains
  • "Estonian Piano Trios" - a collection of pieces for violin, cello, and piano from Estonian composers Artur Lemba, Heino Eller, Riho Esko Maimets, and of course, Arvo Pärt
  • "Tournament for Twenty Fingers" - pianists Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins present a delightful album of works written for piano 4-hands, featuring music by Lennox Berkeley, Richard Arnell, Stephen Dodgson, and Constant Lambert
  • "Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch" - soprano Carolyn Sampson and tenor Allan Clayton shine in this ambitious recording project, a complete performance of all 46 of Hugo Wolf's settings of poems in German by Paul Heyse, after Italian folk songs