RECORDINGS
Shock of the Old · American Baroque plays Telemann ·
The Path to the New Music
Shock of The Old"Nothing better could happen to new music or old music than for their audiences to merge" - Richard Taruskin
Available now, is THE SHOCK OF THE OLD, a new-music-meets-original-baroque-era instrumentation convergence featuring the Common Sense Composers' Collective and American Baroque. With a nod to Thomas Paine, the Common Sense Composers' Collective collaborated closely with American Baroque from the project's outset. This irresistible innovative strategy of well-pedigreed composers and performers developing new music works together yielded a thrilling eye and ear-opening recording on the new Santa Fe New Music label. A few moments into the opening bars of Belinda Reynolds' exhilarating CIRCA and the essence of this joyous collaboration takes flight. Some of the individual works such as Dan Becker's Tamper Resistant are imbued with a Baroque-era sensibility, while others, such as John Halle's engaging Spooks are unapologetically modern, save for the instrumentation. A number of compositions weave seamlessly in and out of the Baroque and Modern worlds. Santa Fe New Music proudly releases THE SHOCK OF THE OLD, where neither old nor new are what they used to be.
This CD is available in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com or through the Common Sense website. Order now!
June 29, 2002 - SHOCK is reviewed in Billboard Magazine
June 30, 2002 - San Francisco Chronicle's Joshua Kosman calls THE SHOCK OF THE OLD "remarkable"
American Baroque plays Telemann
Long considered among the leading interpreters of Telemann's music, the group has selected some of his greatest works from the Tafelmusik and Essercizii Musici for this disc and recorded them in gorgeous 20-bit detail.
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Mozart
Quartets
American Baroque's first recording of Classical music has met with unanimous critical acclaim. "The music simply can't be played any better than this", raved Fanfare. Definitive performances of the Oboe Quartet in F, the Flute Quartets in C an G, and the premiere recording of K496 in an 18th century arrangement, possibly by Mozart, for oboe and strings.
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The Path to the New Music
American Baroque brings a new genre of music performance to light in the radio play The Path to the New Music
written by Katherine Shao
orginal music by Roy Whelden
directed by Allen McKelvey
sound design by Cliff Caruthers
featuring arrangements of works by JS Bach and Anton von Webern
American Baroque is proud to present this unparalleled theatrical collaboration. The tragic shooting of one of the towering figures of 20th century music by an American soldier at the closing of WWII is the subject of this poetic and irreverent play. The music includes new American Baroque arrangements of Bach's Canon Per Tonos, and original music by Roy Whelden.
Anton von Webern: David Keith
Raymond Bell: Charles Dean
Helen Bell: Lynne Soffer
with guest soprano Catherine Webster
and Todd Manley, dumbek
Note: to obtain a copy of this unique work of art, please send $16 plus $2 shipping/handling.