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Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew Cyr & Timo Andres – Timo Andres: The Blind Banister (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:33 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
The album comprises three works by Andres: the composer’s third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal Segev—both of which feature Metropolis Ensemble and conductor Andrew Cyr—and the solo piano piece Colorful History, also performed by the composer.
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Metropolis Ensemble – In A Grove (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:34 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © In A Circle Records
In A Grove is an opera in two parts; music by Christopher Cerrone, libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann. The opera is based on the classic short story, Rashōmon, by Japanese author, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, which was adapted into a celebrated 1950 psychological thriller-crime film by legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
The opera is set within a mountainous ghost forest in the Pacific Northwest in 1921, unfolding within a barren, haunted landscape devastated by wildfire. The audience is a silent, unseen interlocutor, gathering testimony from seven witnesses and potential perpetrators of a crime. It’s a story about shifting perspectives on a single criminal act.
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