Symphony and Classical Music

Moonlight Sonata

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ( FULL )

Saturday, June 29th, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Newman Recital Hall, College of the Ozarks
Carlos Espinosa, Conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade Op 35

La Valse au Clair de Lune - Eric Christian

Performed live on March 26th, 2015 with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kent Nagano

I. Allegro moderato 
II. Adagio di molto 
III. Allegro, ma non tanto

LIVE in SWEDEN: Sibelius Violin Concerto 1st Movement extract

Performed live on March 26th, 2015 with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kent Nagano

LIVE in SWEDEN: Sibelius Violin Concerto 3rd Movement

Beyond Color There is Light ACE - for pierrot sextet (2025)

Beyond Color There Is Light draws on my experience at the massive Rothko Retrospective at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris in January 2024.  It was truly surreal to see 115 Rothkos in a single space and there was a beautiful, enigmatic, and luminous aura among the entire space. Seeing so many of these paintings, and seeing them so closely, one starts to realize how one-sided it is to characterize these paintings as still or suspended; these are incredibly active paintings filled with magnitude of tiny details in color, brushstrokes, and shapes that add so much to the vibrancy of the work. These micro-activities also helped create the sense of inner illumination that Rothko sought to create from within the paintings themselves. In Beyond Color There is Light, I try to capture this duality of stillness and create a sense of luminosity through the orchestrational and harmonic worlds. Through passages of driving melodic lines and rich harmonic webs, a passage of dreamy, floating, and rustling chords with a lyrical cello solo, and an animated, mixed-meter passage, the experience of this piece is as if we notice all of the tiny details flash before our eyes, but we still maintain this shimmering and suspended world in our presence. Beyond Color There Is Light was written with appreciation and admiration for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble and Tim Weiss. 

Tim Weiss, conductor
Antonina Styczen, flute
Ian McEdwards, clarinet
Laura Gamboa, violin
Miles Reed, cello
Seth Schultheis, piano
Xin Yi Chong, percussion

Beyond Color There Is Light - for pierrot sextet

The Russian Souvenir

Waltz of The Flowers

Edith Piaf - La Foule (Piano Cover)

Cellist Dennis Karmazyn plays 'The Swan' from 'Carnival of the Animals'  by Camille Saint-Saens.

Arrangement, Engineering, Production: Maxwell Karmazyn

The Swan | Carnival of the Animals | Dennis Karmazyn

Guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen ('95, '98 M.M.) leads the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Recorded live in NEC's Jordan Hall October 26, 2010.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 - The Tale of Prince Kalendar ( Lento-Allegro molto)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 - The Young Prince and Princess ( Andantino quasi allegretto)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 - The Festival at Baghdad; The Sea; The Ship Goes to pieces on a rock (Allegro molto)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Hilary Hahn, violin

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 (May 2019)

Soyoung Yoon's debut album, released in 2012, contains recordings of two of most famous works for violin. The violin concerto in d minor, Op 47 of Jean Sibelius and well as Piotr Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major, Op 35. 
Th CD-album has been nominated to the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) 2013.

01 Sibelius_ Violin Concerto In D Minor, Op.47 - 1. Allegro Moderato.mp3

Vivaldi Variation

Winner of the Queen Elisabeth (2009) and Yehudi Menuhin Competitions (2008), Ray Chen is among the most compelling young violinists today.   “Ray has proven himself to be a very pure musician with great qualities such as a beautiful youthful tone, vitality and lightness.   He has all the skills of a truly musical interpreter,” said the great Maxim Vengerov.
Ray has released two critically acclaimed albums on Sony: a recital program “Virtuoso” of works by Bach, Tartini, Franck, and Wieniawski, and the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky concertos with Swedish Radio Orchestra and Daniel Harding.   Following the success of these recordings, Ray was profiled by The Strad and Gramophone magazines as “the one to watch”.   “Virtuoso” was distinguished with the prestigious ECHO Klassik award.   He is currently working on his third, all-Mozart album with Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, slated for release later this year.
Ray continues to win the admiration of fans and fellow musicians worldwide.   In 2012, he became the youngest soloist ever to perform in the televised Nobel Prize Concert for the Nobel Laureates and the Swedish Royal Family.   His Carnegie Hall debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Sakari Oramo, as well as his sold-out Musikverein concert with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly were met with standing ovations.   Since the 2012- 13 season, Ray has been invited to join Konzerthaus Dortmund's series “Junge Wilde,” which presents young and groundbreaking artists in Germany.   Later this season, Ray will make his San Francisco recital debut at the SF Jazz Center. He also looks forward to his upcoming recital tour of Australia and his debuts with the Orchestre National de France and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Followed by over 500,000 people on SoundCloud, Ray Chen looks to expand the classical music audience by increasing its appeal to the young generation via all available social media platforms.   He is the first ever classical musician to be invited to write a regular blog about his life as a touring soloist for the largest Italian publishing house, RCS Rizzoli (Corriere della Sera, Gazzetta dello Sport, Max).   In his unstinting efforts to break down barriers between classical music, fashion and pop culture, he is supported by Giorgio Armani and was recently featured in Vogue magazine.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists.   He plays the 1702 "Lord Newlands" Stradivarius violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

LIVE in SWEDEN: Sibelius Violin Concerto 1st Movement extract

Ray Chen Violin

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