The Catchup Show! Lots of exciting new releases, obscure music, and unexpected gems. American Highways #119 is brought to you by pianist Guy Livingston.
John Mackey
Breakdown Tango
Zodiac Trio (Kliment Krylovskiy, Vanessa Mollard, Riko Higuma)
BGR391
Victor Herbert
Overture to Eileen
Orchestra of Ireland, cond by David Brophy
New World Records 2012
Robert O’Dwyer
Eithne, the opera. Act I, Scene I
Irish National Opera Chorus. RTE National Symphony Orchestra, featuring Ora Boylan, Robin Tritschler, Gavan Ring. Fergus Sheil, conductor.
RTE 00109
William Bolcom
Canciones De Lorca – III. La Casada Infiel
René Barbera, Tenor; Carl St. Clair conducting the Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 559788
Gene Pritsker, composer/ Jacob Miller, libretto
Manhattan in Charcoal, Pt. 1: When Even the Village Feels Empty
Jacob Miller, Charles Coleman, Lynn Norris
Composers Concordance Records 0021 (Naxos distr.)
Gijs Levelt
Vondelpark
Levelt, Klein, van Tol, & Kneer
Karnatic Lab KLR 003
André Jolivet (1905 – 1974)
Heptade (1971) I. Allegro
Simon Höfele, trumpet
Genuin GEN 18499
John Cage
Winter Music (Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1991)
Callithumpian Consort (Guy Livingston, Alanna Battat, Johana Kovitz, Mina Yang, 20 pianos. Directed by Stephen Drury)
MODE Records 3/6 Cage 2
Victor Herbert
Act Two Entr’acte 1 from Eileen
Orchestra of Ireland, conducted by David Brophy
New World Records 2012