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On this episode of Classical Chicago, Marta Aznavoorian, pianist of the multiple-Grammy-nominated Lincoln Trio joins Cedille President Jim Ginsburg in conversation about the ensemble’s upcoming album.

Trios From the City of Big Shoulders showcases rarely-heard piano trios by two important 20th-century composers associated with Chicago: Ernst Bacon and Leo Sowerby. Listen to learn more about these impressive works and the lives and music of Bacon and Sowerby through Aznavoorian's personal insight.


Listen to the album here: https://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/trios-from-the-city-of-big-shoulders/

Episode 44 - Marta Aznavoorian (Lincoln Trio) / Trios From the City of Big Shoulders

Episode 49 - Alex Klein / When There Are No Words

Episode 50: Ani & Marta Aznavoorian / Gems from Armenia

Episode 51 - Robert Dillon (Third Coast Percussion) / Perspectives

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg converses with saxophonist Julian Velasco, winner of Cedille Records' first-ever Emerging Artist Competition, about his upcoming debut album, As We Are.

Episode 54: Julian Velasco / As We Are

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with violinist Rachel Barton Pine about Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries: 25th anniversary edition. The album features Pine's new recording of Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2, with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Jonathon Heyward, and reprises her 1997 Cedille recording of concertos by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges; José White Lafitte; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Episode 55: Rachel Barton Pine / Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with the Dover Quartet's Joel Link about the chamber group's album "Beethoven Complete String Quartets: Volume 3 — The Late Quartets." This triple-CD release comprises Beethoven’s very last compositions — remarkable and often daunting works that upended the concept of the string quartet.

Episode 56 – Joel Link / Beethoven Complete String Quartets: Volume 3 — The Late Quartets

American Stories

Episode 57 – Anthony McGill / American Stories

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with soprano Nicole Cabell and conductor Craig Trompeter about their experience creating the Haymarket Opera Company's world-premiere recording of "L'Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover)", 1780 opera by Afro-French composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799).

Episode 58 - Nicole Cabell and Craig Trompeter / L'Amant Anonyme

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, who has served the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal clarinetist since 1979, about his experience recording "Chicago Clarinet Classics."

Episode 59 – John Bruce Yeh / Chicago Clarinet Classics

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with Grammy-nominated cellist Seth Parker Woods about his experience creating and recording "Difficult Grace", his first album for Cedille Records.

Episode 60 - Seth Parker Woods / Difficult Grace

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with violinist Rachel Barton Pine, clarinetist Anthony McGill and composer Malek Jandali, about their experiences creating Cedille's upcoming release, "Malek Jandali: Concertos."

Episode 61 - Rachel Barton Pine, Anthony McGill, and Malek Jandali / Malek Jandali: Concertos

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with internationally acclaimed pianist Jorge Federico Osorio about his celebrated musical career and his experience creating Conciertos Románticos, Cedille's upcoming June 9 release comprising Mexican piano concertos and solo pieces.

Episode 62 - Jorge Federico Osorio / Conciertos Románticos

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Mark Steven Doss about his prolific musical career and his experience recording his Cedille debut, "Welcome to My World." The album highlights Doss's wide range as a performer, and features performances from pianist Ken Smith and accordionist Stas Venglevski.

Episode 63 - Mark Steven Doss/Welcome to My World

Episode 64 Part 1 - Rachel Barton Pine and Earl Maneein

Episode 64 Part 2 - Rachel Barton Pine and Earl Maneein

On episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with Third Coast Percussion's David Skidmore about his experience recording Cedille's latest release, Between Breaths. The works on the album explore aspects of meditation in sound, incorporate unconventional timbres and tones, invite listeners to lose themselves within a captivating sonic landscape.

Episode 65: David Skidmore/Between Breaths

Episode 66 – John William Trotter / Miracle of Miracles — Music for Hanukkah

Episode 67 – Will Liverman / Show Me The Way

Episode 68 – Stacy Garrop / Terra Nostra

Baroque Band: Maurice Greene - Overture No. 3 In C Major  I. Con Spirito

Many wonderful pianists have recorded Frederic Rzewski’s 36 Variations on “The People United will Never be Defeated!” The song itself, by Sergio Ortega, is superbly strong. Frederic and I first heard it sung by Inti-Illimani in a concert at Hunter College. The variations explore all of piano history; that’s why so many pianists — like the creatures in Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals — like to play them. History changes, but people need to remain united in recognition of the great varieties among us.
—Ursula Oppens

01 Theme - With Determination

The Lincoln Trio is renowned for creating “worthwhile programs of serious classical music that are wholly winning and simply delightful” (ClassicsToday.com). For its newest Cedille Records album, “the brilliant Chicago-based Lincoln Trio” (WRTI-FM, Philadelphia) of violinist Desirée Ruhstrat, cellist David Cunliffe, and pianist Marta Aznavoorian has crafted a highly personal program of inventive 20th-century piano trios by composers from the individual players’ ancestral homelands of Switzerland, England, and Armenia, respectively.

06 - Arno Babajanian: Piano Trio in F-Sharp Minor: III. Allegro Vivace

02 - Rebecca Clarke: Trio for violin, violoncello, and piano: II. Andante molto semplice

01 Si Veriash A La Rana

Soprano and composer Patrice Michaels discusses her upcoming album "Notorious RBG in Song." Learn more about the album here: https://cedille-records.lnk.to/4nrkvSo

Episode 18 - Patrice Michaels / Notorious RBG in Song

Episode 33 - Francis Crociata / Leo Sowerby: Selected Works for Solo and Duo Piano

Episode 39 - Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt / Opus 18 Beethoven Quartets

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg joins Chicago baritone Will Liverman in conversation about his upcoming album Dreams of a New Day — Songs by Black Composers.

Liverman's full-album Cedille debut showcases the tradition of African American art song and features a world-premiere by composer Shawn E. Okpebholo.

https://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/dreams-of-a-new-day-songs-by-black-composers/

Episode 41 - Will Liverman / Dreams of a New Day

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