Isang Yun: Sunrise Falling Release from Bruckner Orchester Linz

Conductor Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz, and Pentatone Oxingale Series are proud to announce the release of Isang Yun: Sunrise Falling. Joining Dennis Russell Davies and the Bruckner Orchester Linz on the all Isang Yun release are Matt Haimovitz, cello, Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin, and Maki Namekawa, piano. The album can be purchased online at the link here.

Dennis Russell Davies and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Release New CD: Now, and Then

Conductor Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana with guitarist Pablo Marquez in a new release from ECM New Series. The album includes transcriptions of Frescobaldi, Legrenzi, Gabrieli, Viadana, and Wassenaer from Bruno Maderna and Chemin V by Luciano Berio.

Now, and then is a fascinating album which challenges definitions of old and new music. Bruno Maderna’s charming and evocative transcriptions and re-orchestrations of pieces by Frescobaldi, Legrenzi, Gabrieli, Viadana and Wassanaer are brought together with Luciano Berio’s Chemins V (heard here in a premiere recording). As the composer himself noted, Chemins V can also be considered a “transcription”: it is a resetting, made in 1992 of, Sequenza XI (1987/88), Berio’s masterful work for solo guitar, now enveloped by luminous writing for chamber orchestra.

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Dennis Russell Davies named Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Dennis Russell Davies has been named Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra (Brno, Czech Republic).

Davies’ contract starts with the 2018-19 season and runs through 2022. The timing coincides with the initiation of the construction phase of the Janáček Cultural Centre in Brno, a state-of-the-art concert hall with a seating capacity of 1,250, which will become the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra’s new home and is projected to open in 2020. For Davies, who has just concluded his 15th and final season as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Linz Opera, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra appointment marks the continuation of 48 years during which Davies has held principal positions with orchestras, opera houses and festivals that have included the Basel Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bonn Opera and Beethovenhalle Orchestra, State Opera Stuttgart, American Composers Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Cabrillo Music Festival and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

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