Anthony Roth Costanzo, Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – John Corigliano: The Lord of Cries (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:17:32 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Gil Rose present the world premiere recording of The Lord of Cries, a breathtaking opera by John Corigliano and Mark Adamo. Telling the story of Euripides’s The Bacchae with the characters of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the piece explores the power of sexual desire and humans’ need to blame and attack others for what they can neither resist nor accept in themselves. Corigliano returns to opera for the first time since his The Ghosts of Versailles, introduced by the Metropolitan Opera, made an international sensation in 1992. The brilliant cast—most of whom introduced their parts in the world premiere in 2021—is led by star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo in the title role.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – Tod Machover: Death and the Powers (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:26:22 minutes | 920 MB | Genre: Classical
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BMOP/sound’s latest release is Tod Machover: Death and the Powers, the MIT composer’s “robot opera.” Featuring baritone James Maddalena as Simon Powers, this opera explores the intersection of humans and technology, corporate superpowers and wealth inequality, and the nature of consciousness itself—what does it mean to be “alive”?
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose & Gabriela Diaz – Roger Reynolds: Violin Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:23:22 minutes | 757 MB | Genre: Classical
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Reynolds [approaches] the traditional concerto pattern of a solo virtuoso interacting with an ensemble through the double-mirror-like effect of … two responding agents, the ensemble and computer – together, they enhance the mercurial sense of personality projected by the piece. In contrast to Personae, the purely acoustic Aspiration allows the ensemble to set the stage or scene on which the soloist enters. The result is more obviously orderly, linear, and lucid in comparison to the sumptuous density and multiplicity of Personae. Reynolds describes the solo work Kokoro as “a collection of extreme and alternative worlds within which aspects of a common ancestorship emerge in perilous and unpredictable succession.”
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – John Corigliano: To Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:02 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Classical
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John Corigliano is a difficult composer to pin down stylistically. The generally tonal orientation of his music and the cinematic quality that made his score for The Red Violin such a success have brought him a beloved status rare among contemporary composers. Yet, it would be wrong to call him neo-Romantic; his music has deep rigor and sometimes, as in the Symphony No. 2 on offer here, a quite grim quality. This 2022 release from the Boston Modern Orchestra does not include his most famous works – The Red Violin in either its film score or violin concertos forms, The Ghosts of Versailles, or the Symphony No. 1 – but it offers an excellent window into the richness of Corigliano’s music, in which a great variety of elements collide in unexpected ways. One of those elements is quotation, on display in the opening work, To Music; it is based on Schubert’s song An die Musik, which is assembled with great subtlety over five and a half minutes. Perhaps the high point is Troubadours: Variations for guitar and chamber orchestra, originally written for and recorded by Sharon Isbin; guitarist Eliot Fisk catches the unique lyricism of this lovely work. The Symphony No. 2, adapted from an earlier string quartet, contains a remarkable fugue that exemplifies Corigliano’s way of using classical forms to bring order to distinctly modern impulses. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project approaches the work with real enthusiasm, and for anyone wanting to get beyond the Corigliano “hits,” this makes a fine choice.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – Gail Kubik: Symphony Concertante (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:16 minutes | 630 MB | Genre: Classical
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Tom [ Scherman, of the Little Orchestra Society ] came to me and said, “Hey Kubik, I’m being pestered all the time by the pianist in my orchestra, Frank Glazer, for a solo appearance, and by Bob Nagel, my trumpet player, and the principal violist [ Theodore Israel ] .” And so Tom, figuring to kill three birds with one stone said, “Can’t you write me a piece for piano, viola, trumpet, and orchestra, and I’ll have my three players do the solo parts and they’ll get off of my back?” I said, “Sure.” And since it came within a month or so after I’d finished recording the score to the film C-Man, which had exactly those three solo instruments, I just re-wrote it as the Symphony Concertante. Don’t do that thinking that you’re going to save time. It’s twice as hard, it’s ten times as hard, than to just write a new piece.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – Carlos Surinach: Acrobats of God (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:46 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: Classical
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Gil Rose has a special knack for finding music that has somehow slipped through the cracks. Here, he gives us three ballet scores composed for Martha Graham and her company by Carlos Surinach (1915 97). Born in Barcelona and trained in Germany (including seminars with Richard Strauss), Surinach settled in 1950 in the United States, where his flamenco-inflected style appealed to leading choreographers.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – John Harbison: Diotima (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 672 MB | Genre: Classical
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John Corigliano is a difficult composer to pin down stylistically. The generally tonal orientation of his music and the cinematic quality that made his score for The Red Violin such a success have brought him a beloved status rare among contemporary composers. Yet, it would be wrong to call him neo-Romantic; his music has deep rigor and sometimes, as in the Symphony No. 2 on offer here, a quite grim quality. This 2022 release from the Boston Modern Orchestra does not include his most famous works – The Red Violin in either its film score or violin concertos forms, The Ghosts of Versailles, or the Symphony No. 1 – but it offers an excellent window into the richness of Corigliano’s music, in which a great variety of elements collide in unexpected ways. One of those elements is quotation, on display in the opening work, To Music; it is based on Schubert’s song An die Musik, which is assembled with great subtlety over five and a half minutes. Perhaps the high point is Troubadours: Variations for guitar and chamber orchestra, originally written for and recorded by Sharon Isbin; guitarist Eliot Fisk catches the unique lyricism of this lovely work. The Symphony No. 2, adapted from an earlier string quartet, contains a remarkable fugue that exemplifies Corigliano’s way of using classical forms to bring order to distinctly modern impulses. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project approaches the work with real enthusiasm, and for anyone wanting to get beyond the Corigliano “hits,” this makes a fine choice.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Lee Hoiby: The Italian Lesson (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:05 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) is a professional orchestra in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Founded in 1996 by artistic director Gil Rose, its mission is to explore the connections between contemporary music and contemporary society by reuniting composers and audiences in a shared concert experience. In its first twelve seasons, BMOP performed over 80 concerts of contemporary orchestral music, commissioned more than 20 works and presented over 70 world premieres, released 20 CDs, produced the inaugural Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and collaborated to produce performances of contemporary operas (including the Opera Unlimited festival of contemporary chamber opera). Now entering its 20th season, it has released nearly 50 CDs in total. BMOP performs regularly at Boston’s Jordan Hall, and has performed in major venues on both the East and West Coasts of the United States. BMOP has appeared at Tanglewood, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, California, and Pittsburgh’s “Music on the Edge” festival.
The orchestra has won the ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Orchestral Music and recipient of the John S. Edwards Award for Strongest Commitment to New American Music. In 2015 it was named Musical America’s 2016 Ensemble of the Year, the first ever symphony orchestra to receive the award.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Avner Dorman: Siklòn (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:12 minutes | 604 MB | Genre: Classical
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Avner Dorman writes music of intricate craftsmanship and rigorous technique, expressed with a soulful and singular voice. A native of Israel now living in the United States, Dorman draws on a variety of cultural and historical influences in composing, resulting in music that affects an emotional impact while exploring new territories. His works utilize an exciting and complex rhythmic vocabulary, as well as unique timbres and colors in orchestral, chamber, and solo settings. The world’s finest orchestras, conductors, and soloists regularly perform Dorman’s music, and many of his compositions have become contemporary staples in the repertoire. Zubin Mehta, Ricardo Chailly, Andris Nelsons, Pinchas Zukerman, Gil Shaham, Martin Grubinger, and Hilary Hahn, are among the many musicians who have championed his music.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:29:21 minutes | 2,94 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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In October, we announced As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage, the most extensive and ambitious presentation of opera by Black composers to ever take place in the US. Starting with Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, As Told By is a series of five operas that depict vital figures of Black liberation and thought across 250 years of history.
Anthony Davis is perhaps best known for this opera, which enjoyed a sold-out premiere production at the New York City Opera in 1986. This revised version stars Davóne Tines, Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year, and will be held in Dorchester’s Strand Theatre, just blocks away from Malcolm X’s Boston home.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose – Robert Carl: White Heron (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:49 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Classical
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Known as the nation’s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound today announced the release of Robert Carl: White Heron, led by conductor Gil Rose and performed by the intrepid Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). Featuring four of the composer’s orchestral works, this portrait album concerns Carl’s life-long fascination: time and space-concrete, geographical, and metaphorical.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose – John Adams: Chamber Symphony (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:32 minutes | 298 MB | Genre: Classical
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One of America’s most admired and frequently performed composers, John Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947. After graduating from Harvard University in 1971, he moved to California, where he taught and conducted at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for ten years. His innovative concerts led to his appointment firstly as contemporary music adviser to the San Francisco Symphony and then as the orchestra’s composer-in-residence between 1979 and 1985, the period in which his reputation became established with the success of such works as Harmonium and Harmonielehre. Recordings on the New Albion and ECM labels were followed in 1986 by an exclusive contract with Nonesuch Records, an association that continues today
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