The Orchestra Now
The Orchestra Now (or TON) fills a dual role: it is part of a master's degree program at Bard College in upstate New York, but it also has performed around the greater New York area and beyond. It has also made several recordings for Bridge and other labels.
The Orchestra Now proclaims itself "a group of vibrant young musicians from across the globe who are making orchestral music relevant to 21st century audiences." The group was founded in 2015 by its conductor, Leon Botstein, music director since 1992 of the American Symphony Orchestra and co-director of the Bard Music Festival and Bard SummerScape. He has also served as music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Campus Grafenegg, and the Grafenegg Academy in Austria, and he has been the president of Bard College since 1975. The members of TON have been selected from top international conservatories, including the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Royal Conservatory of Brussels. The group demystifies classical compositions by giving on-stage introductions and demonstrations, writing its own concert notes, and emerging from backstage to interact with audiences during concert intermissions.
TON is based at Bard's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, where it plays several concerts yearly and also performs at the Bard Music Festival in the summer. TON has also performed at New York City's most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Lincoln Center, among others, as well as beyond New York. Guest conductors who have worked with TON include JoAnn Falletta, Neeme Järvi, and Gerard Schwarz. In 2018, TON made its debut on recordings as part of the successful Romantic Piano Concerto series on the Hyperion label, backing pianist Piers Lane in piano-and-orchestra music by Ferdinand Ries and becoming one of the few American ensembles on the roster of that British imprint. Beginning in 2020, TON released albums of unusual 19th and 20th century repertory on the Bridge label, with Botstein as conductor. These included Buried Alive, featuring music of Arthur Honegger, Othmar Schoeck, and Dmitri Mitropoulos (2020); Piano Protagonists, an album of piano concertos (2021); and Classics of American Romanticism, containing orchestral music by George Frederick Bristow and William Henry Fry (2022).
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Discographie
12 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Ries: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 9 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 75)
Piers Lane, The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 27 avr. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Rubbra & Bliss: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 81)
Piers Lane, The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 26 juin 2020
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Bristow & Fry: Classics of American Romanticism
The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez Bridge Records le 16 sept. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 70 & Caprice russe, Op. 102 (Live)
Anna Shelest, The Orchestra Now, Neeme Järvi
Classique - Paru chez Sorel Classics le 6 juil. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Buried Alive
The Orchestra Now, Michael Nagy, Leon Botstein, Bard Festival Chorale
Classique - Paru chez Bridge Records le 21 août 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Piano Protagonists
The Orchestra Now, Orion Weiss, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez Bridge Records le 19 mars 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Forte (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Orchestra Now, Micaela Carballo, Lucia Caruso, Pedro Henriques da Silva
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Sorel Classics le 6 août 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ries: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 9 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 75)
Piers Lane, The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 27 avr. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rubbra & Bliss: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 81)
Piers Lane, The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 26 juin 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Lost Generation: Apostel • Kauder • Busch
The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - À paraître le 24 mai 2024 chez AVIE Records
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Hans Erich Apostel: Variations on a Theme by Haydn: Variation VIII: Andante cantabile
The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 10 mai 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Hugo Kauder: Symphony No. 1: II. Sehr mäßig bewegt
The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 26 avr. 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo