Episode 218: 18219 City Lights

Chad Lawson is an American pianist and composer. After performing as a member of the Summit Records act Chad Lawson Trio from 1997 to 2004, Lawson performed as a member of Julio Iglesias' tour band, which inspired him to release his debut studio album Set on a Hill. Lawson's fifth studio album The Chopin Variations, a collaboration with violinist Judy Kang and cellist Rubin Kodheli, reached number one on the Billboard Top Classical Albums chart. He debuted as a major label musician through Decca Records in 2020, with the extended play Stay. Lawson is known as the composer of the podcasts Lore and Unobscured, both works created by Aaron Mahnke. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Christmas in My Dreams (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Solomon from Morahana Arts and Media.

7 Joulu 202116min

01 - Carol of the Bells02 - Underneath the Tree03 - All I Want for Christmas is You04 - Christmas Lights05 - Santa Tell Me06 - Last Christmas07 - Christmas in Harlem08 - Make it to Christmas09 - Snowman10 - Thank God it's Christmas11 - Mistletoe12 - Fairytale of New York13 - Christmas Star

6 Joulu 202148min

Iphigénie en Tauride is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard.With Iphigénie, Gluck took his operatic reform to its logical conclusion. The recitatives are shorter and they are récitatif accompagné (i.e. the strings and perhaps other instruments are playing, not just continuo accompaniment). The normal dance movements that one finds in the French tragédie en musique are almost entirely absent. The drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

5 Joulu 20211h 52min

Elīna Garanča,Wiener Philharmoniker,Christian ThielemannWagner: Wesendonck-Lieder /Mahler: Rückert-Lieder(Live from Salzburg) Purchase the music (without talk) at:Live from Salzburg - Wagner and Mahler Lieder (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Solomon from Morahana Arts and Media.

4 Joulu 202146min

Dove Award-Winning pianist Paul Cardall takes listeners on a journey from the rise of a new moon in September through the New Year. Paul said, "These introspective, tender, piano compositions have a minimal style of music reflecting the growing pains of a beautifully complex world. I'm alive because beating in my chest is the heart of a deceased man, thanks to organ donation. I understand that life is filled with irony, misconceptions, confusion, and yet darkness can't exist in the light. Our mortality is also filled with so much beauty, joy, serendipitous relationships. I want to capture all of these emotions in my music and hope it may will comfort and offer hope to listeners." Cardall's compositions have evolved in the two decades he's been recording piano music. His style and technique have evolved into a modern Classical style. He gives you a very strong grounding in his piano skills. Each composition has a concise structure, simple compositional techniques, manageable technical requirements, and basic harmonies. Pieces are thought-provoking melodies, subtle, and feature simple powerful string accompaniments. In addition, Cardall employs a minimalist approach that includes repetitive patterns or pulses, steady drones, consonant harmony, and reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units. September WindsBeyond The WallNew Moon RisingFirst SnowSleeping FlowersThanksgivingAdvent PrayerLeaving NazarethHush, Little Baby (The Mocking Bird Song)Hearts of The ChildrenHearts of The FathersDecemberOur Beating HeartsA New YearPurchase the music (without talk) at:Paul Cardall - December (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Anita Daly from Daly Communications.

3 Joulu 202151min

The Poor Clare Sisters number over 20,000 sisters throughout the world in 16 federations and in over 70 countries. Most monasteries have from four to thirteen members. Some have larger communities but the Poor Clare charism is one of family and St. Clare guided us that small communities were much better to keep this family spirit than larger ones.The Nuns of Poor Clares of Arundel brings us a Winter Meditation Mix.This music, like modern Gregorian Chant, will definitely relax you to sleep with hints of ethereal Christmas music.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Winter Meditation Mix (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Solomon from Morahana Arts and Media.

2 Joulu 20212h 25min

This is a 2-album out-of-print set. Giselle originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis, is a romantic ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it was first performed by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France on 28 June 1841, with Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle. The ballet was an unqualified triumph. Giselle became hugely popular and was staged at once across Europe, Russia, and the United States. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Adam: Giselle (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

1 Joulu 20211h 26min

Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1994, to German-Korean parents, she started piano at age four. Only three years later, she became a student of professor Irina Edelstein. Since 2009, Gina Alice has been studying piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt, as a junior student of Lev Natochenny's master class. Since 2012, she has been a student of Bernhard Wetz at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. Tracklist:01. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen02. No. 4 in D Major: Andante cantabile03. Träumerei04. No. 1 in E-Flat Major: Andante moderato05. Seascape (Arr. Bill Evans for Piano)06. Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon (Arr. Wang Jian Zhong for Piano)07. Opus08. Gymnopédie No. 109. Vladimir's Blues10. Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi11. Liszt: Widmung, S. 566 (after R. Schumann)12. No. 2 in E-Flat Major: Andante13. Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Arr. Cortot for Piano)14. No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor. Allegro (Bonus track)15. Canon in D Major (Arr. Yukie Nishimura for Piano)16. La plus que lente, L. 12117. The Dance of Waterweeds18. A Catalogue of Afternoons19. Encore20. No. 5 in G Major: Moderato21. Clair de lune22. Blonde23. Merry-Go-Round24. Intermezzo in A Major. Andante teneramente25. Adagio cantabile26. No. 3 in D-Flat Major. Lento placido27. Kind im Einschlummern28. No. 15 in A-Flat Major (Bonus track) Purchase the music (without talk) at:Wonderworld (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Solomon from Morahana Arts and Media.

30 Marras 20211h 48min