First Inversion

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Brian Hsu
Joby Talbot’s stunning choral setting of Mexican poet Octavio Paz’s epic masterpiece, performed by GRAMMY® Award-winning choir Conspirare and Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson. Drawing on the symbolism of the Aztec calendar stone, Octavio Paz’s poem Piedra de sol (1957) is like no other. It uses techniques of modern poetry, particularly surrealist imagery, to meditate on cyclical time and the possibility of breaking its grip through poetry and love.
Olmos Ensemble // Strauss Don Quixote - Introduction - arr. Laszlo Varga
Peter Sheppard Skærved and David Hackbridge Johnson
David Sisco — Dear God: Jeff // Laura Strickling & David Fung
Presto Music New Release Round-Up feature for Infrastructure: The Songs of David Sisco: “Not just a big, bold début recording - though it is certainly that - but an invigorating exploration of what art song can look like in our own time. Sisco draws on poems about travels in Italy, the lonely hearts and ships-in-the-night of 'missed connection' ads on semi-defunct websites from the early days of the Internet, the caustic and often unhinged wit of today's online reviews, the unfiltered naïveté of prayers written by children, and more. An album to brandish in the face of anyone that thinks classical song has nothing new to say and nowhere left to go.”
David Sisco: Infrastructure
Carolyn Enger // American Ethos
Michael Hersch and Peter Sheppard Skærved © Tim Holt
Carolyn Enger // William Grant Still: Seven Traceries: II. Mystic Pool