The Muse in Music - Noam Aviel's Quarantine Listening List that Features Underrepresented Composers

By, Dan Perttu

In this video blog post, I am so excited to be interviewing Noam Aviel, the Associate Conductor of the San Antonio Symphony on her quarantine listening list that features underrepresented composers. The pieces she talks about are below the video. Please check it out!

Here are the pieces we discuss:

Chava Alberstein - Gaaguim

Clara Schumann - Piano Concerto, op. 7 **

Florence Price - Symphony No. 1

O'Hooley & Tidow - The Fragile

Bobby Timmons - This Here is Bobby Timmons

Sharon Farber - Translucent Rocks **

** This linked video is Noam Aviel's debut with the Sinfonietta Beer Sheva and includes a recording of both the Sharon Farber and the Clara Schumann pieces. Dorel Golan is the piano soloist on the Schumann.

The Muse in Music - Flutist Brook Ferguson's Recommended New Music Listening List for Quarantine

By, Dan Perttu

Please join me for a wonderful conversation with flutist Brook Ferguson, principal flute of the Colorado Symphony and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, in which she shares her listening list for quarantine that includes wonderful and imaginative works of new music!

Some of Brook's recommendations can be found on the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra's (ROCO's) website here.

Thanks, also, to Brook for her comments about my piece for flute and piano, Gloamin. The commercial recording can be found here.

The Muse in Music - Violinist Frank Almond in Conversation about Quarantine and Listening Picks

By, Dan Perttu

In this episode of my "Muse in Music" blog, I am so happy to be interviewing violinist Frank Almond, former long-time concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony as well as concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and London Philharmonic. He and I discuss the trials of quarantine for musicians and his recommendations of unique recordings for listening during these difficult times. His recommendations include the Six Violin Sonatas and Partitas by Bach, and recordings of the Brahms Ballades and various piano works of Debussy by the eccentric pianist Arturo Michelangeli, among others. Please click below to listen!

Photo by Jennifer Brindley