Another new video for your watching and listening pleasure:
Schnittke Concerto Grosso #1, fifth movement Rondo. This video features Nelson Lee & Meg Freivogel from the Jupiter Quartet, Andrus Madsen on harpsichord and prepared piano, and the largest assemblage of Criers the world has ever seen! OK, maybe that's getting carried away, but there are 21 unique parts, with one player to a part. Chamber music in the CMA sense of the word!
The complete Biber is up on YouTube, split into 2 parts (it would have been 20 seconds over the 10-minute limit for a single video... lame, YouTube, lame!). If you haven't seen A Far Cry on video recently, you're in for a treat - Simon Yue is now filming our concerts with multiple cameras, which are then edited together (with the artistic advice of Jae) for a much-improved watching experience. I even find that the video changes how I hear, as my ear tends to amplify whichever section I'm watching at a particular moment. Fun.
Other new A Far Cry videos to check out: the Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, and Mozart Piano Concerto videos. Enjoy!
Be sure to tune in to Performance Today... um, today! A Far Cry will be heard performing Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances - it was recorded live at last winter's performance at San Pablo Catholic Church in Marathon, Florida, presented by the Middle Keys Concert Association. Thanks to Norman, Ed, and everyone involved for helping us reach a wider audience!
We just received word that NPR's Performance Today, with 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations, will be featuring A Far Cry on Monday's broadcast! They will be playing our Simple Symphony (Benjamin Britten) from March 23 in Marathon, Florida. Also, on their website they call us "irreverent" which is fine by me, even if it's just one side of the A Far Cry coin. Thanks, Performance Today!
Did you know you can now download A Far Cry "Debut" directly from iTunes onto your iPod? Cool! Just click the button below and iTunes will take you directly to our album. Tell your friends :)
The first of many, let's hope... The great blogging violist, Charles Noble, found his way to A Far Cry's "Debut" album and posted his thoughts to his widely-read blog, Daily Observations (classical music insights). The verdict?
