Lera Auerbach
Author
Publisher
Deutsche Grammphon
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
None
Description
Violinist Hilary Hahn saw a need for new encores, so she commissioned, premiered, toured, and recorded these "tiny pieces with a big attitude" (The Times UK). Written by composers with musical identities as distinct as their backgrounds, the 27 encores meld an already beloved genre with the creative impulses of our time.
11) Lys
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
None
Description
"Mari Samuelsen explores the phenomenon on which so much of life on earth depends. LYS - Norwegian for "Light" - presents music by thirteen female composers, from Hildegard of Bingen to Hildur Guðnadóttir, combining specially commissioned works with new arrangements of existing pieces. The fourteen tracks are woven together to create a meditation in sound on something so fundamental that it is often taken for granted. The Norwegian violinist's eclectic...
