Solo
Jennifer Montone Performs…
Grammy Award winning artist Jennifer Montone is the principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra and an internationally acclaimed soloist and chamber musician. She has performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis, Dallas, National, and the Polish National Radio Symphonies as well as the Warsaw National Philharmonic. Montone is on the faculty at Juilliard as well as the Curtis Institute. She was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006 and in 1996 was the winner of the Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year Award in London. Montone contends that horn players are privileged to perform some of the most beautiful music ever written and in this recording, imagined as a recital, she and her colleague, pianist Anna Polonsky explore the connection between Romantic and contemporary horn writing by following a chronological progression that spans 120 years. The works were written during a period of great musical and artistic innovation that saw the horn developed fully as a featured orchestral and solo instrument.
Penderecki: Fonogrammi / Horn Concerto / Partita / Awakening
Each of these six orchestral works bears the imprint of Penderecki's greatness as a composer. Fonogrammi alternates piquant sonorities, pulsating vehemence and moments of great intimacy. Intensity accompanied by neo-Romantic elements can be heard in The Awakening of Jacob whilst Anaklasis is a stunning example of juxtaposed, multiple sound patterns. De natura sonoris I explores more improvisational, jazz-influenced areas, as does the richly orchestrated Partita. The Horn Concerto, composed in 2008, offers an evocative landscape, glacial, powerful, yet wistful.
Song of Shinobué
Chamber music compositions by Haruka Watanabe
Chamber Music
David Bilger and Jeffrey Curnow, trumpets
Jennifer Montone, horn
Nitzan Haroz, trombone
Carol Jantsch, tuba
Gabrielli - National Brass Ensemble
The National Brass Ensemble is comprised of the finest brass players in major orchestras across the United States.
Nicholas Phan follows up last year's successful solo debut with Still Falls the Rain, focusing on works inspired by Britten's key collaborators including Dennis Brain, Osian Ellis, and poet Edith Sitwell. The rarely recorded The Heart of the Matter includes a narration of Sitwell s poems by Scottish actor Alan Cumming.
Orchestral
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Introducing the international debut Deutsche Grammophon orchestral album from leading French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the distinguished Philadelphia Orchestra.
A powerful musical tribute to the mighty Leopold Stokowski (1882 1977), 35 years after his death, from the young conductor who now continues his legacy. Stokowski spent some of his most important and fruitful years in charge of the orchestra in Philadelphia, in a position that brought him some of his greatest accomplishments. Musical showmanship, free-thinking and a populist approach to contemporary music are characteristics of Stokowski's distinguished conducting and recording career.
This new album focuses on Stravinsky's daring, revolutionary and game-changing ballet score, The Rite of Spring given its American premiere performance by Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra, and a work that reaches its centenary milestone in 2013. Plus a selection of popular Stokowski transcriptions, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor (J. S. Bach), as heard in its Stokowski version in Disneys classic Mickey Mouse movie, Fantasia.
Beginning an important musical partnership for Deutsche Grammophon, expect the unexpected from one of the most exciting, energetic and insightful young maestros of our age.
Stravinsky’s 'Le Sacre du printemps' and Debussy’s 'La Mer' conducted by Jaap van Zweden
Guest Principal with the New York Philharmonic
October, 2018