In 2008 the Phoenix Chorale won a Grammy Award for the newest recording.
This podcast looks at their brand new recording of Hymns to the Virgin Mary.
The interesting thing about this CD is that all of the music was written in the 20th century, including music by four composers who are still very much alive and composing.
Nashville Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin has just released a new recording of Pictures at an Exhibition with each movement transcribed for orchestra by a different arranger.
Some of the arrangers, like Vladimir Askhenazy and Leopold Stokowski are well known, others are not.
But all have been moved by Mussorgsky’s music, and all have created brilliant arrangements.
William Perry, William Schuman and Virgil Thomson share several important traits.
They are all 20th American composers (though Perry is stil alive, which makes him a 21st century composer), and all have written works for solo cello and orchestra.
This podcast introduces threse three beautiful but still unknown works.
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In 2008 the Phoenix Chorale won a Grammy Award for the newest recording.
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