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Vikingur Olafsson:

Continuum - Johann Sebastian Bach

CONTINUUM, a new six-track EP of music by Johann Sebastian Bach from pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, is out now on Deutsche Grammophon. The release comes just days after Ólafsson’s recording of the same composer’s monumental Goldberg Variations was honoured with the prestigious OPUS KLASSIK Bestseller of the Year award. CONTINUUM presents piano arrangements of six works by Bach, four of them realised by Ólafsson himself, and all of which he recorded at Reykjavík’s Harpa concert hall in January. The EP is part one of a new series of recordings in which the pianist continues his dialogue with Bach’s music and pays tribute to his genius. “Not a day goes by without me playing Bach on the piano,” says Ólafsson. “This is the first instalment in what will be an ongoing Bach diary.”

CONTINUUM is released digitally and on vinyl today, 18 October 2024, with a deluxe version available exclusively from the DG Store. The latter features a 180g crystal-clear vinyl disc; high-quality prints of the individual black-and-white covers produced for each track’s single release over the last few months; and an LP-format signed art card.

Ray Chen:

Player 1

Decca Classics is thrilled to announce award-winning violinist, entrepreneur, and pioneer Ray Chen's innovative new album, Player 1, to be released globally on October 18, 2024. The first single, Sadness & Sorrow (from Naruto) by Toshio Masuda (arr. Benjamin Rimmer).

Blending classical music with the immersive world of gaming, the album also comprises a thrilling array of themes from television, Anime, and film including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Pokémon, and Squid Game.

Recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Cristian Macelaru, these compositions gravitate around the sonic centerpiece of Erich Korngold’s Violin Concerto. The Austrian composer was a pioneering 20th-century classical composer who became one of the first musicians of international stature to score films for Hollywood. Like Ray, Erich was a child prodigy. Like Ray, he was drawn to the dramatic and the cinematic. And like Ray, he understood the thrill of storytelling.

Nostalgia looms in surprising and uplifting ways on this album. Ray performs with the 1714 ‘Dolphin’ Stradivarius, which is on loan from the Nippon Foundation. This violin was once owned by Jascha Heifetz, who has been hailed as the greatest violin virtuoso since Niccolò Paganini and who premiered the Korngold Concerto in 1947. Ray is the web that binds everything together. “Player 1 aims to create a meaningful connection between the past and the present,” he says.

Ray Chen’s mission now is to challenge traditional perceptions of classical music, making it accessible and inspiring. Nintendo consoles, TV dramas, films, anime, soundtracks, and a near-century-old work by Korngold may at first seem like disparate cultural phenomena. But they have one thing in common. They weave fantasies. Player 1 is a contemporary journey into these fantastical realms.

Max Richter:

In A Landscape

Max Richter is one of the most influential and acclaimed composers of all time. His fusion of classical technique and electronic technology, heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion, has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.

His ninth solo album – the first to be written and recorded at his serene new studio in rural Oxfordshire – is a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion. In A Landscape is a record about “reconciling polarities,” as Richter puts it, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living.

The 19-track album began life in summer 2022 as a natural counterweight to the urgent political tenor of his previous projects: Exiles, a ballet score about the refugee crisis, and Voices, constructed with a “negative orchestra” and hundreds of readings of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights. Richter’s ongoing commissions, meanwhile, were similarly dramatic and conceptual, including a ballet adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MADDADDAM, music for a Mark Rothko retrospective, and scores for Johan Renck’s sci-fi drama Spaceman and the Elisabeth Moss spy thriller The Veil.

The next project called for a recalibration. Shifting focus to Richter’s immediate surroundings, In A Landscape marks out a psychic space in which to meditate on the present while recognising a lifetime of artistic influence, from Bach and Purcell to the poetry of Keats, Wordsworth and Anne Carson. “It’s me having a look around, trying to examine where I'm at,” he suggests, “like a memoir of the present moment.”

In A Landscape is his first solo album recorded at Studio Richter Mahr, the minimalist, eco-conscious creative retreat designed and operated by Richter and his wife, visual artist Yulia Mahr. “The whole building is like an instrument,” he says. “There's an element of exploring the capabilities of the building, how all the spaces sound, all the textures, and trying to dicover the fingerprint it has.”

Michael Tilson Thomas:

GRACE, the music of

In celebration of his 80th birthday, PENTATONE will honor Michael Tilson Thomas’ lifetime of contributions as a composer by releasing a deluxe collection of CDs and digital recordings of his compositions. This four-disc set spans more than five decades of his compositional career and features 18 works, from premiere recordings to remastered archival recordings available for the first time.

The collection also includes an extensive booklet containing composer’s notes, original essays, and a timeline of archival photos chronicling MTT’s life as a pianist, conductor, composer, recording artist, and teacher.

All net proceeds from GRACE: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas will be donated to brain cancer research at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center.

There are two key times in an artist’s life. The first is inventing yourself.
The second, the harder part, is going the distance.
How do you sustain the vision, make it grow, and share it? To be an artist means to have the courage for rebirth and growth. It’s never ending.    Michael Tilson Thomas

Veronica Bell:

Into the Wonderland

Classical crossover soprano Veronica Bell invites listeners to experience the enchanting beauty of the season with her latest holiday album, "Into the Wonderland."  Joined by a talented ensemble featuring pianists Greg Schreiner, Sergey Chipenko, and Kevin Tokars, Jacob Nakhman on clarinet, Paul Moser on guitar, bass, and percussion, this album takes listeners on a journey beyond the typical holiday fare, merging elegance with warm familiarity.

Veronica's rich and soulful soprano shines throughout the recording, offering a refreshing take on holiday classics while introducing original compositions that resonate with the listener's spirit. The artistic collaboration between the musicians elevates the album, creating a harmonious blend that is both comforting and uplifting.

A meticulously crafted collection of songs includes a variety of tunes from different cultures: American, Ukrainian, Austrian, French, and Jewish. With creative arrangements that blend classical motifs and contemporary sounds, each track will speak to those seeking a more refined listening experience this holiday season. “Into the Wonderland” invites you to slow down, reflect, and cherish the beauty of the moment, fostering an atmosphere of serenity and nostalgia, and makes it a perfect soundtrack for cozy evenings by the fire.

Simone Dinnerstein:

The Eye is the First Circle - Ives Concord Sonata

GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein, described by The Washington Post as “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity,” will release her next album, The Eye is the First Circle featuring iconic American composer Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata, on October 18, 2024 via Supertrain Records – timed to coincide with Ives’ 150th birthday on October 20. The new album is a live recording of the premiere of Dinnerstein’s multimedia production of the same title, at the Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, New Jersey on October 17, 2021.

The recording is Dinnerstein's last to be released with her longtime recording partner, GRAMMY-winning producer Adam Abeshouse, who also produced her previous thirteen albums. She says, “The Eye is the First Circle was a deeply personal project for me, and it was very meaningful to have Adam there. It is even more meaningful that this marks our last album together.”

Dinnerstein has long been drawn to the music of Charles Ives. “There is a type of wild struggle in his music between the weighty influences of the past and the Americana of his upbringing and his quest for developing his own musical language,” she says. “The music seems to vacillate between a kind of haunting memory of beauty and an extremely dissonant and forward-looking anticipation of the future. It’s deeply human, incorporating tragedy and comedy, a striving for the spiritual and an embrace of popular culture. In our present day, when every one of us is able at the drop of the hat to curate the most esoteric of playlists, both literally and metaphorically, his music resonates deeply.”

With her production The Eye is the First Circle, Simone Dinnerstein ventured into bold interdisciplinary artistic territory in collaboration with projection designer Laurie Olinder and lighting designer Davison Scandrett. Conceived and directed by Dinnerstein, the dynamic production deconstructs and collages elements from two iconic works of art – Simone’s father Simon Dinnerstein’s painting The Fulbright Triptych and Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata – and also incorporates ambient sounds of children playing, night sounds from the pond, and birdsong.

Janoska Ensemble:

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons in Janoska Style

The Janoska Ensemble, one of the world's most innovative ensembles, is happy to announce the release of their fourth studio album: an exciting new interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi's timeless masterpiece “The Four Seasons / Le Quattro Stagioni”. This album marks another milestone in the ensemble's impressive career and will once again delight music lovers far beyond the classical world.

Vivaldi's works were deliberately chosen as baroque music provides an ideal basis for the Ensemble’s unique “Janoska Style” - characterized by virtuoso improvisations and cross-genre fusions. This style is particularly evident in the art of improvisation, which has become a trademark of the ensemble since it was founded. The four violin concertos shine in a completely new light thanks to the orchestral splendor of the ensemble and will be an integral part of their live repertoire in the future.
The Janoska Ensemble takes it even further: each movement of the Four Seasons is enriched by newly composed passages by ensemble member František Janoska, which are brought to life with breathtaking virtuosity by Ondrej, Roman and Julius. Vivaldi's original sonnets serve as a central theme and the musicians interpret not only the seasons, but also cultural change over the centuries. This artistic approach combines classical heritage with contemporary interpretation in a fascinating way.
In addition to their musical achievements, the Janoska Ensemble has performed on four continents and delighted audiences worldwide. Their two previous albums on Deutsche Grammophon have also achieved gold status, underlining the exceptional quality and popularity of their music.

Marina Albero:

A Nomad of Sound

Marina Albero resumes her journey across the world on here new album: A Nomad of Sound. Barcelona-born jazz pianist charts an exciting course abroad with a release inspired by the freedom to explore A Nomad of Sound, written and recorded during a self-designed musical residency in New Orleans in early 2024, is the overture to an ambitious new chapter in jazz pianist Marina Albero’s lifelong musical travelogue.

The album will be self-released on November 3rd at a performance by Albero in the closing days of Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival. It will initially be available on CD and digital music platforms, with a vinyl pressing soon to follow. Albero’s previous album A Life Soundtrack (2019, also self-released) spent five weeks on the national jazz charts, where it peaked at #23.

A Nomad of Sound was engineered, mixed and mastered by top producer Justin Armstrong. The album’s six tracks feature several diverse lineups of predominantly NOLA-based musicians, including bassist Amina Scott, drummer Pedro Segundo, and Cuban multi-instrumentalist Yusa. Albero’s daughter Serena contributes vocals in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Stylistically, A Nomad of Sound wanders as freely as its creator, delivering contemplative pieces for jazz quintet, a hard-driving Latin number, and a New Orleans style funeral march on which Albero’s fiery keytar excursions conduct a full brass band. Recording sessions took place at New Orleans’ Marigny Studios and Ellis Marsalis Center, where Albero had the honor of playing on the late master’s piano.

Joel Sunny:

First Sight

‘First Sight’ is the new single and video from Joel Sunny, the soon to be superstar violinist who has been setting the internet alight with his strikingly unique compositions and meticulously crafted visuals.  Born in India, raised in Manchester and now based in Sydney, the 23-year-old talent has built a vast audience for himself, amassing over 4 million followers across social media in only a couple of years.

Although Joel’s music takes instrumental form, he uses the violin to construct melodies akin to vocal lines, writing with a distinctly pop sensibility, full of decadent drama and cites Lana Del Rey as a key influence.  The resulting compositions are irresistible, conjuring up intriguing visual worlds and narratives that demonstrate his cinematic sensibilities - a key element in his creative process. Now collaborating with creative director Cal Mcintyre (The Last Dinner Party), the video for ‘First Sight’ provides a tantalizing glimpse at his endless creative scope.

A glorious waltz of a song, ‘First Sight’ tells the story of two lovers, the sun, fate, and the moon and treads an immaculate line between light and dark, perfectly reflected in the visuals. The single is the first of a trilogy of releases, set to be fully  revealed in early 2025 and is certain to build on the huge success of Sunny’s viral hit single  “Luminary|”, which  became a staple of #BookTok, becoming the go-to soundtrack to fan-made visuals for the popular  Young Adult novel “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas.

Andrea Bocelli:

Duets - 30th Anniversary

Renowned classical artist Andrea Bocelli is set to captivate fans with a stunning album “DUETS” releasing on October 25th, 2024. Andrea Bocelli is known for his emotive performances and bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts. 

As excitement builds for the release of “DUETS” Bocelli’s upcoming album is filled with a star-studded list of artists and surprise guests celebrating the artist’s 30th Anniversary in music, fans can expect a collection of songs that explore themes of love, faith, and unity all wrapped in Andrea Bocelli’s signature style.

Roy Hargrove:

CRISOL GRANDE-TERRE

In early 1998, fresh off their GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Performance for their debut album Habana, Roy Hargrove and his incandescent group of musicians headed back into the studio to capture lightning in a bottle. Until now that recording, Grande-Terre, has never been heard.

Showcasing Hargrove’s red-hot playing, his superlative writing and the band’s powerful singular sound, Roy Hargrove’s Crisol: Grand-Terre (Verve Records) will be released worldwide on October 18th, two days after what would have been Roy’s 55th birthday. The first track, from the never-before heard recording sessions, “Priorities."

Roy Hargrove was widely praised for his compositions and abilities on the trumpet and flugelhorn and The New York Times called him “…the most impactful trumpeter of his generation.” Grand-Terre succinctly exhibits this talent alongside his “Crisol” or melting pot of long-time collaborators. This all-star group of Cuban, American and Guadeloupian musicians was the foundation to Hargrove’s unparalleled approach to jazz and the mélange of musical genres that appear on the record.  

This unique blending of jazz, afro-Cuban rhythms, soul, bop, and funk influenced a generation of jazz, hip hop and neo-soul musicians. From Kamasi Washington and Robert Glasper to D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and Questlove, all these artists—who are now household names—have been shaped by Roy Hargrove’s music and what he cooked up in the studio. 

Roy Hargrove’s Crisol: Grand-Terre will be available globally across all formats (LP, CD, Digital) on October 18th.

Day Dream:

Duke & Strays Live

In his recent memoir Chasing the Masters, drummer/composer Phil Haynes divides jazz practitioners into two parallel tracks, the traditionalists and the modernists. He sees his own career as an attempt to bridge the two tracks, at once imbibing the lessons of the past while pushing forward into the unexplored future. Those efforts have not always met with the approbation of the jazz cognoscenti, however. “It’s as if modernists and traditionalists share many of the very same heroes,” he writes, “yet draw vastly different lessons from them.” While his adventurous nature and free improvisational instincts would lead many to place Haynes firmly in the modernist camp, his work with the Day Dream trio is evidence of his wide-ranging gifts. The trio borrowed its name from a piece by Duke Ellington, who Haynes, somewhat surprisingly, cites as the prime instigator of the modernist explorers. 

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Pete Calandra and Straight Up:

Silent Kisses

Silent Kisses- Pete Calandra and Straight Up….featuring: Tom Barney-Bass, Eric Valentine-Drums, Bob Magnuson-Saxes and Flutes, Ricky Martinez-Congas and Pete Calandra-Composer/Piano. The album was mixed by Ken Freeman and Calandra.

Pete Calandra's albums include: -- First Light (2015), The Road Home (2017) and Carpe Noctem (2018) were nominated for ZMR Awards. His jazz funk track, Neptune Beach was a 2023 Hollywood Independent Music Awards Nominee while another jazz based track, Bleecker Street, was the 2023 Clouzine Magazine “Best Jazz Funk” winner. In 2024 his track Mixed Emotions was a Hollywood Independent Music Awards Nominee.

As a Film & TV composer, Calandra scored over 100 films and wrote over 2000 compositions for television. He has composed music for every major television network including the FIFA World Cup Theme for FOX Sports, the Special Olympics World Games and Invictus Games Theme for ESPN, as well as writing music for the Kennedy Center Honors on CBS from 2015 thru 2020. He also garnered acclaim for composing the music to Jellysmoke, a film which won the Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and Unknown Soldier, a film which won the Los Angeles and Philadelphia Film Festivals and also was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

As a keyboard player Calandra has performed in the Broadway productions of Miss Saigon, The Lion King, Les Miserables, The Phantom Of The Opera, and Little Shop Of Horrors. He has also performed with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, NY Pops Orchestra, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Don Cherry, Aretha Franklin, Allen Ginsberg, Annie Golden, Donna McKechnie, Lillianne Montevecchi among others.

VOCES8:

Nightfall

Grammy-nominated ensemble VOCES8 is pleased to announce the release of its new album, 'Nightfall,' on Decca Classics today ! This album introduces a collection of reflective and transcendent music inspired by the night. It features a mix of choral classics and contemporary arrangements, including new choral versions of popular works by Ludovico Einaudi, Sigur Rós, Koji Kondo, and Max Richter.

This exquisite collection of songs, celebrating a diverse range of composers from the worlds of film, game, alternative, and contemporary classical music, showcases VOCES8’s unique style and versatility. The recording also features world premiere works from British composer and 2024 Classic FM Rising Star Lucy Walker, as well as US composer and regular collaborator, Taylor Scott Davis, known for 'dreamy vocal lines'.

‘Nightfall’ opens and closes with contemplative psalm settings by South Korean composer Jaeil Jung, known for his work on Squid Game and Parasite.

The album follows the success of VOCES8’s previous collaborative album ‘Home’ with GRAMMY-winning composer Eric Whitacre and their own GRAMMY nomination in the Best Choral Performance category for their 2022 Decca Classics/Decca Gold recording of Christopher Tin's ‘The Lost Birds’ featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Acclaimed around the world for their skill, subtlety, panache and impressive range of musical styles, recent performances include European venues such as Wigmore Hall and Vienna Konzerthaus, three tours to the US and a return tour to Australia, including the Sydney Opera House.

Nijole Abaryte:

Alchemized Time

The internationally acclaimed classical concert pianist Nijolé Abaryté will release her long-awaited debut album as a composer, "Alchemized Time," on October 18, 2024, positioning herself as an emerging voice in the Neo-Classical scene. The album features 17 tracks that transcend genres and expectations with a warm, earthy sound, evoking elements such as stone, wood, and glass while also embodying the mystery of humanity—represented by the heartbeat of an unborn child.

Nijolé was born into a musical family in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she developed a passion for classical music and jazz at an early age. Shortly after graduating from high school, she embarked on her first European tour, having caught the attention of Swiss professors. Nijolé was accepted into the University of Arts Zurich: she skipped the Bachelor’s program and was directly admitted to the Master’s program, where she was mentored by renowned teachers. She performed successfully in Europe and the USA and received several awards.

The album, produced by the multi-platinum awarded producer Rudi Dittmann, combines timeless classical roots with modern innovation, taking listeners on a powerful, emotional journey. With "Alchemized Time," Nijolé Abaryté opens a new phase of her career and invites Neo-Classical fans worldwide to immerse themselves in her emotionally rich and artistically mature soundscape.

Release Date: October 18, 2024
Album: Alchemized Time
Genre: Neo-Classical
Instrument: Steinway Piano

Stephan Micus:

To the Rising Moon

To the Rising Moon is Stephan Micus’ 26th solo album for ECM. It features instruments from Colombia, India, Xinjiang (China), Bavaria, Cambodia, Egypt and Borneo, which have never before been combined in one composition. People often call themselves a multi-instrumentalist when they play three or four instruments, but Stephan plays eight on this album alone and countless more since his first ECM album, Implosions, in 1977.

Here, there’s one that takes centre stage that he’s playing for the first time, the Colombian tiple. It’s a little smaller than a guitar and is considered the national instrument of Colombia. Although still frequently played in its traditional, highly-European influenced context, modern composers hardly make use of it. “For me this instrument has the quality of light, of something shining,” Stephan says. “It’s like these metal strings are sparkling and for me the tiple pieces have a very positive energy.”

The tiple has 12 steel strings in four triple courses and it’s a composition for two tiples, To the Rising Sun, that opens the album with ringing strings.

“I’ve been to Colombia three times,” says Stephan, “and I really love the books of Gabriel García Márquez, particularly Love in the Time of Cholera. My first trip was mainly to try and experience the long ago world of this book and I went to Mompos on the River Magdalena. A friend had this tiple, lent it to me and I fell in love with it. Anyone who plays guitar can do something on the tiple.” Stephan got one made for him in 2017 by Orlando Pimentel, one of the leading tiple makers, and this is the first time he’s played it on one of his recordings.

On the album the plucked tiple pieces alternate with more reflective tracks with bowed strings. The first of these is Dream Within Dream, with six dilruba, a South Asian bowed instrument that Stephan gets to sound very lyrical and cello-like. “You won’t hear a dilruba from India with this kind of sound, which I found only after long experiments with alternative stringings. I always have this tendency to prefer the lower sounds - and so have commissioned instrument makers to build lower versions of the Moroccan genbri, Japanese shakuhachi and Armenian duduk.”

As well as playing instruments, Stephan uses his voice, although he uses it like an instrument. He doesn’t sing words, but improvised syllables, just there for their sound. The track In Your Eyes has three tiples plus voice in the mood of a poetic love song.

Daniel Barenboim:

Cesar Franck * Gabriel Faure w/Berlin Phil.

In 1964, at the age of 21, Daniel Barenboim made his debut as soloist with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Five years later, he conducted the orchestra for the first time. Deutsche Grammophon is delighted to mark the 60th anniversary of this close and fruitful artistic partnership with a new album pairing Franck’s Symphony in D minor with the orchestral suite from Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande. The album  available today and on CD on 1 November. A strictly limited deluxe version available exclusively from the DG Store includes five high-quality postcards featuring some of the colour illustrations created by the German-Swiss painter and graphic artist Carlos Schwabe for a special edition of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande published in Paris in 1924. A selection of Schwabe’s illustrations also appear in the booklet that accompanies the recording.

Despite the changes in its personnel over the decades, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s relationship with Daniel Barenboim has never wavered. In a piece written for its website a few years ago, Frederik Hanssen noted that the orchestra’s “instinctively functioning communication” with the conductor “has in a sense inscribed itself into [its] DNA”, thanks to a friendship built on “deep mutual affection”. Barenboim, meanwhile, has spoken of the influence the orchestra had on him long before that first appearance in 1964: “When I was a child, the Berliner Philharmoniker was a model of what an orchestra could and should sound like. Its unmistakable sound took my breath away even then.”

Charlie Parker:

Bird in Kansas City

On modern jazz pioneer Charlie Parker’s heavenly birthday: August 29, 2024, Verve Records announced Bird in Kansas City, an album featuring a new set of rare recordings dating from between 1941-1951, to be released globally on October 25, 2024 on vinyl, CD, and digitally. Much of this collection has never been heard before and some recordings have never even been known to exist — Bird in Kansas City chronicles Charlie Parker’s evolution from a blossoming soloist with the Jay McShann Band into a brilliant improviser who changed the genre forever.

To celebrate the announcement of Bird in Kansas City, the first track, “Cherokee,” 

Chuck Haddix — scholar and author of Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker, who also produced and wrote liner notes for this album — says, “‘Ray Noble’s ‘Cherokee’ was one of Bird's favorite songs. Whenever he showed up late for a gig, he would make a grand entrance through the front door playing ‘Cherokee.’ Taken at a bright tempo, Charlie takes wing with a melodic solo that deftly navigates the song’s challenging chord changes.”

In addition to two unreleased 78s with the McShann band, Bird in Kansas City offers two sets of private recordings — at the home of Parker’s friend Phil Baxter and at Vic Damon’s studio— made with local musicians and a very relaxed-sounding Parker who has the room to stretch out and show us the shape of jazz that was to come in his wake.

Central to these recordings is Parker’s relationship to his hometown of Kansas City, a place he never lived again once he left in 1941 but remained deeply important to him; his mixed emotions owed to the city’s history of racial segregation and to his strong ties to his family and friends there. Though he never returned permanently, he frequently came home during breaks in his travels, and it is during those times that these recordings were made.

Daniil Trifonov:

My American Story North w/Phil. Orch. YN-S

For his latest Deutsche Grammophon project, Daniil Trifonov is embarking on a pianistic journey across the Americas. Out today, the first of two volumes, My American Story – North, takes in a wide range of repertoire from the United States, the country the pianist has called home for almost half his life. The album ranges from jazz and swing to modernism, minimalism and popular soundtracks, covering a century of US music for solo piano or piano and orchestra. “I did not intend to record an anthology,” says Trifonov. “These are simply favourites of mine that speak to me on a musical level.” Joined by The Philadelphia Orchestra and its Music and Artistic Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in George Gershwin’s much-loved Concerto in F and the world premiere of the brand-new concerto written for him by Mason Bates, Trifonov also performs solo works by John Adams, John Cage, Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, Dave Grusin, Thomas Newman, Art Tatum and Bill Evans.

My American Story – North available digitally, on 2 CDs and as an 3-LP vinyl version (offering extended liner notes, additional photos and two bonus tracks). One of these, Trifonov’s transcription of “Secunda” from the soundtrack to the popular video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released as a digital single on 19 July. His transcription of Victor Young’s When I Fall in Love (as interpreted by Bill Evans), which will be accompanied by a video; by John Adams’s China Gates; and the main theme from Thomas Newman’s American Beauty. A video for the finale of Gershwin’s Concerto in F comes out on the same day as the album.

Daniil Trifonov moved to the US aged 17 to study with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM). As well as helping him prepare for the 2010 Chopin Competition and 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition, his teacher also introduced him to films, literature and other musical genres, including the jazz piano of Art Tatum. Still friends today, Trifonov and Babayan released the critically acclaimed Rachmaninoff For Two earlier this year (“a winning mix of limitless pianism, deep knowledge and visionary boldness” – Gramophone).

David Garrett:

Millennium Symphony

DAVID GARRETT's NEW ALBUM “MILLENNIUM SYMPHONY”

David Garrett plays the biggest hits of the last 25 years!

An absolute firework of hits with symphonic pop reinterpretations including Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, David Guetta and many more! World Tour in 2025!

Through his creativity and musical versatility, the German star violinist has developed into one of the most successful solo artists in the world.

On his new album, the musician presents himself from a completely new side. David Garrett combines the biggest hits of the last 25 years with his current project. Opulent classical-meets-pop hymns rearranged for the violin. A conceptual crossover album that more than lives up to its name: “Millennium Symphony”!

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