Classical New Releases

Figures (The Whitest Boy Alive Sample)

Are You Still Somewhere?

Porcelain

Nocturnal

Christian Favre play Frederic Chopin - Berceuse in D flat major op. 57

Boombox Baby

Variation on Erik Satie

A bright, spirited Waltz for piano trio, one of several trios that I wrote early in my career. There is a free-wheeling sense of cheerful play and pleasure here, of which I could be jealous, but I take many a positive from rediscovering it some quarter of a century on.

Piano Trio: 1. Waltz

Jesse Roper - The Hurricane's Eye

String arrangement of Closing Time by Semisonic.

Closing Time String Orchestra

This one is for sk dunn. It's the first song I wrote, right after Mary Gauthier's November 2016 "Finding Your Writer's Voice" Performing Songwriter workshop.

Here's the mixtape referred to in the song:

Disc 1
1.  Superstition  (Stevie Wonder/Talking Book)
2.  Many Rivers to Cross  (Jimmy Cliff/The Harder They Come)
3.  Working Class Hero  (John Lennon/John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band)
4.  Fade Away (Bruce Springsteen/The River)
5.  Candela (Buena Vista Social Club/Buena Vista Social Club)
6.  Señor  (Bob Dylan/Street Legal)
7.  Broken English  (Marianne Faithfull/Broken English)
8.  Brown Sugar  (The Rolling Stones/Sticky Fingers)
9.  Vincent  (Don McLean/American Pie)
10. Coyote  (Joni Mitchell/Hejira)
11. Maggie May  (Rod Stewart/Every Picture Tells a Story)
12. Watching the Wheels  (John Lennon/Double Fantasy)
13.  You Are So Beautiful  (Joe Cocker/I Can Stand a Little Rain)
14. Graceland  (Paul Simon/Graceland)
15. I Still Miss Someone  (Johnny Cash/At Folsom Prison)
16. Sail Away	  (Randy Newman/Sail Away)

Disc 2
17. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere  (Neil Young/Everybody Knows This is Nowhere)
18. Tower of Song  (Leonard Cohen/I’m Your Man)
19. A Change is Gonna Come  (John Boutte´/Jambalaya)
20. Heroes  (David Bowie/Heroes)
21. Theme from Buffalo Dreams  (Michael Thomason/Buffalo Dreams)
22. Pressure Drop  (The Maytals/The Harder They Come)
23. Diamonds & Rust  (Joan Baez/Diamonds & Rust)
24. Things Have Changed  (Bob Dylan/The Wonder Boys Soundtrack)
25. Texas Cookin’  (Guy Clark/Texas Cookin’)
26. Jailhouse Rock  (Elvis Presley/The Complete 50’s Masters)
27. Ghost Riders in the Sky  (Mary McCaslin/Things We Said Today)
28. Without You  (Nilsson/Nilsson Schmilsson)
29. I’ve Got a Feeling  (The Beatles/Let it Be)
30. Another Train  (Mary Gauthier	/Trouble & Love)

Nonperforming Songwriter

Ashes to Sand

Elena Kats-Chernin - Eliza Aria

Yolanda Bruno and Isabelle David have been performing together since meeting at McGill University in 2008. The duo is particularly drawn to music from their own country of Canada, digging up works of lesser-known or forgotten composers as well as designing programs that promote gender parity. Together, they have premiered works written for them by Canadian composers Michel Szczesniak and Richard Covey, as well as the Canadian premiere of Broad and Free by Pulitzer winner Caroline Shaw. Their recitals have aired on CBC Radio 2 as well as ICI Musique. 

Yolanda, branded one of CBC’s 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30, is the winner of the OSM Standard Life Competition, the inaugural Isabel Overton Bader Violin Competition, and she is the recipient of Canada Council’s Virginia Parker Award.

Isabelle, a fifth-generation musician, has performed across North American and Europe (Carnegie, Zipper, Jordan and Wilfrid-Pelletier halls) and has won numerous national competitions and scholarships, including the Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award. She is the recipient of a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Yolanda and Isabelle’s decade-long partnership owes much to a shared enthusiasm for musical discovery driven by inquisitive natures.  The Wild Swans is their debut album, released in 2019.

Elena Kats-Chernin - Eliza Aria

Yolanda Bruno & Isabelle David

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