RECORDINGS AND PUBLIC ATIONS
Composer Jeremy Beck ’92MMA ’95DMA released his sixth album on the Innova label. The recording, by moonlight, features a variety of chamber, orchestral, and vocal music and includes performances by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sofia Session Orchestra.
In July, New Amsterdam Records released Terrain, an album of music by composer Jacob Cooper ’06MM ’07AD ‘10MMA ’14DMA. A Pitchfork. com review read, “In a collaboration with the stunning singers Theo Bleckmann and Jodie Landau, the sharp young composer processes poems and strings into surprisingly magnetic meditations on time.”
Violinist Gerald Elias ’75BM/MM was commissioned by Centaur Records to make the first recording of the complete Op. 1 Sonatas for Violin and Cembalo by Pietro Castrucci. Elias performed from the only extant edition—the original 1718 publication by Jeanne Roger (Amsterdam).
In March, composer Ethan Braun ’21DMA released his debut album of original compositions, READ ME, on the Brooklynbased label figureight records.
Goldberg Hallucination Remix by composer Sidney Corbett ’84MM ’85MMA ’89DMA appears on a new CD, Goldberg Reflections, which was released this year by Sony. The album also includes arrangements by Andreas Tarkman and other new compositions.
Recordings by violinist and composer Ralph Evans ’74BA ’76mm ’77MMA ’80dma, first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet and professor of violin and chamber music at the Mannes School of Music at The New School, will be released by Naxos in early 2021. The albums will feature compositions by Dvořák and Mozart.
36 Music at Yale
