Summer is here!
The summer concert season has arrived, and Candlewood Digital will be recording it, crickets and all! The Windham Music Festival features performances by violinist Jennifer Frautschi, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robert Manno, and jazz artists Bill Mays, Fred Hersch, Bill Charlap, and Renee Rosnes. At the Doctorow Center for the Arts, the Catskill Mountain Foundation features pianists Vladimir Pleshakov and Elena Winter in the continuing Piano: King of Instruments series; the Chelsea Art Museum in NYC features the Double Entendre double-reed ensemble; and more!
Collaboration in Dallas
Candlewood Digital teamed up with Dallas-based SoundBoard Recording for a CD of major works for flute and piano, with Dallas Symphony flutist Kara Kirkendoll Welch and pianist Gabriel Sanchez. CanDig producer Richard Price joined SoundBoard engineers Roy Cherryhomes and George Gilliam (well-known for their superb Dallas Symphony recordings) for the sessions, which featured new ribbon mics from Massachusetts-based Crowley and Tripp.
Dylan & Caitlin at the
New York City Opera
The New York City Opera showcased excerpts from Dylan & Caitlin, a new opera composed by Robert Manno with libretto by Gwynne Edwards, on May 11. Candlewood Digital is proud to have produced and engineered the recording that helped lead to this honor (see photo below left).
Robert Craft's
Continuing Legacy
Candlewood Digital's engineers continue their longstanding relationship with conductor Robert Craft, remastering the acclaimed Naxos releases of Maestro Craft's seminal Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Webern collections. Just out: a two-CD collection, Igor Stravinsky: A Portrait, featuring over fifty tracks compiled from the series. Next out in the Schoenberg canon: the major early work for huge orchestra, Pelleas und Melisande, paired with the dramatic
Erwartung, with the Philharmonia of London and soprano Anja Silja.
Major Choral Works of Schnittke and Ginastera
On February 13 in New York City, Kent Tritle led his virtuoso Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola in two remarkable major works: Ginastera's Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the landmark Concerto for Choir of Alfred Schnittke. Candlewood Digital was there to record this spectacular concert live for release this fall on MSR Classics.
New Candlewood Productions
Choral and vocal works of composer William Brehm at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.; Organist Renée Anne Louprette at the great Mander organ of the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, NYC, in a wide-ranging program of organ masterworks; pianist/composer/trombonist Philip Swanson in a unique collaboration with poet
Jim Schley, executive director of the Robert Frost House in Franconia, New Hampshire; a new Christmas CD from the Mainstreet Brass; chamber music premieres from composer Richard Wilson; Christmas music for double reeds with Double Entendre; a new traversal of the Bach cello suites with soloist Mary Costanza; a new project from flutist John Solum; a program of rarities for flute and organ with Linda Marianiello and Keith Reas; French masterworks with pianist Gregory McCallum; and more!
In the Editing/Mastering Rooms
A new CD by the McDonald-Bianculli Flute & Guitar Duo, featuring Arlo McKinnon Jr's Hill of Slane; a recital of major works for flute and piano with Dallas Symphony flutist Kara Kirkendoll Welch and pianist Gabriel Sanchez, recorded in Dallas; St. Louis Symphony members in two CDs of the chamber music of Barbara Harbach, recorded on location in St. Louis; the Shostakovitch cello concerto with soloist Kim Cook and the Volgograd Philharmonic; pianist/composer Haskell Small in the music of Mompou; jazz pianist/composer Philip Swanson in a collection of piano works; a new CD by the Mainstreet Brass, recorded in Bethlehem, PA; piano music of Carter and Copland, with Ann Schein, joined by Juilliard Quartet violinist (and spouse!) Earl Carlyss for the Copland Sonata; the art of the Klezmer Flute, featuring Adrianne Greenbaum;Schumann's Dichterliebe with tenor Stephen Cary and pianist Dennis Helmrich; the Hanoverian Ensemble in a Telemann program; Brahms clarinet sonatas and the Clarinet Trio, with clarinetist Hideaki Aomori and pianist Joshua Pierce; Bach's Goldberg Variations with pianist Ronald Hawkins; new works of composer Richard Wilson; a program of new music from pianist Susan Chan; Naxos' ongoing complete Stravinsky and Schoenberg series, with conductor Robert Craft and the Philharmonia of London; pianist and Grand Prix Liszt du Disque laureate Nadejda Vlaeva in an all-Russian program; the Borealis Wind Quintet's eagerly-awaited followup to their Grammy-nominated 2006 release A la Carte, (an all-French program, working title: En Salon);bass-baritone Ode Amaize with pianist Andrew Gordon, composer Suzanne Sorkin, new and vintage projects from Music Minus One, and more!
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Those of you who have worked with Richard and Wayne over the years can
be assured of the same level of service to which you have become
accustomed. We are very happy to welcome Robert LaPorta, new owner and
president of MSR Classics, as our live concert recording specialist. We
will also continue working in close collaboration with Rob in his
capacity as head of MSR Classics, and we know he will be a tremendous
resource to our clients.
