Elena Harsanyi - Two Passion OratoriAffecting Passions by Heinichen. The Passion music Johann David Heinichen wrote for the Dresden court is a document of cultural and confessional openness of the Saxon residence, and his two Italian oratorios heard here are surrogates of large scale Passion music. "Come? S'imbruna il ciel" composed in 1728 is the latest of the sepolcri, his other Passion "L'aride tempie ignude" the first of the sepolcri to survive from Heinichen in Dresden. Both texts

The program of this release includes popular and traditional songs from the whole world

Préludes (Book II)

a smidge of step-sibling romance

deliberately naive sentiments

paying homage to Renaissance-era counterpoint

Goethe and Heinrich Heine

behind the lyrics of Jack Terricloth

Steve Albini and more

Ayako Ito: "Nowadays

wherever the neon's buzzing

she'll have to find the strength to move on as well in HIDAMARI SKETCH: GRADUATION

Schoenberg had a close personal tie with many of the composers performed at the association concerts