The Orchestra Now, Orion Weiss & Leon Botstein – Piano Protagonists (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:57 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records
This new studio recording contains three works for piano and orchestra that virtuoso pianist Orion Weiss and conductor Leon Botstein first performed in concert at the Bard Music Festival. Together, the three works span almost a century of musical Romanticism and are as different from one another as the generations they represent. In each piece, the virtuoso genre becomes a means by which the composer responds to a specific source of inspiration — in the first case (Korngold), a performer and family friend who had suffered a horrendous tragedy, in the second (Rimsky Korsakov), a venerated old master, and in the third (Chopin) a melody from a beloved opera.
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Genre: Classical
Year of publication: 2012
Duration: 00:58:37
Quality: Blu-ray Disc
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-2
Audio Codec: DTS-HD Master Audio | LPCM
George Gershwin’s Concerto in F was a response to demands for a ‘proper concerto’ after the success of Rhapsody in Blue, avoiding programmatic content while providing a feast of tunes both uplifting and nostalgic. Originally intended as music for a film, his up-beat Rhapsody No 2 describes the bustling Manhattan cityscape while under construction. Sourced from his hit musical Girl Crazy, I Got Rhythm Variations was Gershwin’s last full score. Pianist Orion Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists and collaborators of his generation of young American musicians.
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Orion Weiss – Arc II (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:55 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © First Hand Records
This album strives to understand the varying ways composers comprehend grief, loss and death. How did they cope, their hearts broken, their peace gone? And how can we cope? In this combination of works Weiss has tried to follow the paths these great composers walked in their own grief. Their tracks lead us from death back towards life, from horror to hope.
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Orion Weiss, John Fullam, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta – Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue – Strike Up the Band: Overture – Promenade – Catfish Row (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:07 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD – Naxos
Info for Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue – Strike Up the Band: Overture – Promenade – Catfish Row (Remaster 2015)
George Gershwin fired up the New York music scene with his mélange of alluring tunes and refinement of the jazz vibe. His Strike up the Band Overture opened a flashy broadway hit and, inspired by a train ride, the composer heard his masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue as a “musical kaleidoscope of America”. Promenade was reconstructed from a 1937 film score, and Catfish Row was Gershwin’s concert suite from the opera Porgy and Bess. Acclaimed as a “bold, gutsy performance with plenty of pizzazz” and with “impressive brilliance and depth”.
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Orion Weiss – Arc I (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:50 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © First Hand Records
“Arc I” is the first of a three-album series and features three important works for solo piano from the frantic years 1911–1913, the precipice before World War I. Weiss explains about his Arc series: “The arc of this recital trilogy is inverted, like a rainbow’s reflection in water. “Arc I”’s first steps here head downhill, beginning from hope and proceeding down to despair. The bottom of the journey, “Arc II”, is Earth’s center, grief, loss, the lowest we can reach. The return trip, “Arc III”, is one of excitement and renewal, filled with the joy of rebirth and the anticipation of a better future”.
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