SEATTLE SYMPHONY & LUDOVIC MORLOT RELEASE ALL-FAURÉ DISC ON SEATTLE SYMPHONY MEDIA
This summer the Seattle Symphony and Music Director Ludovic Morlot released the fourth disc on Seattle Symphony Media, the Symphony’s in-house record label. Under Morlot, the Seattle Symphony and Chorale, along with Concertmaster Alexander Velinzon, Principal Cello Efe Baltacıgil and former Principal Flute Demarre McGill, present Fauré’s most beloved orchestral works in beautifully recorded performances. With charismatic interpretations of three short works for solo instruments plus a rare recording of the choral version of Pavane, this is a definitive collection of Fauré’s orchestral music.
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Demarre McGill, flute
Alexander Velinzon, violin
Efe Baltacıgil, cello
Seattle Symphony Chorale
Seattle Symphony
FAURÉ: Masques et bergamasques
FAURÉ: Fantaisie for Flute / orch. Talmi
FAURÉ: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite
FAURÉ: Berceuse for Violin and Orchestra
FAURÉ: Élégie for Cello and Orchestra
FAURÉ: Dolly / orch. Rabaud
FAURÉ: Pavane
Digital downloads and CDs are available through iTunes and Amazon.
The Seattle Symphony has an extensive catalogue of over 140 recordings, which have brought forth 12 Grammy Award nominations throughout its history. Under the leadership of Ludovic Morlot, now in his fourth season as Music Director, and Executive Director Simon Woods, the Symphony is building a new discography spanning genres and time periods. They feature both “core repertoire” and some of the eclectic and contemporary programming for which the Seattle Symphony has become recognized at home.
An important characteristic of the label is the combination of live and studio recordings, allowingthe organization an unprecedented breadth of repertoire choices that are less easily achieved with an “all-live” label. Distributed by Naxos of America, the recordings are available in both physical and digital formats from a variety of retailers.
All recordings are made in the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall using the Symphony’s own state-of-the-art in-house recording facility. The recordings have been engineered to audiophile standards and aim to capture as realistically as possible the sound of the orchestra performing onstage with naturalistic imaging, depth of field and dynamic range. Digital content will be available in four formats: regular stereo, “Mastered for iTunes,” 96k 24-bit high resolution, and 5.1 surround sound.
Earlier releases on Seattle Symphony Media feature Ludovic Morlot conducting the Symphony in works by French and American composers, celebrating the flourishing relationship between this French conductor and American orchestra that has electrified audiences in Seattle. The discs include works by Charles Ives, Elliott Carter, George Gershwin, Henri Dutilleux, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns.
SSM1001
Henri Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1, Tout un monde lointain, The Shadows of Time
SSM 1002
Ravel: Orchestral Works; Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony
SSM 1003
Ives: Symphony No. 2; Carter: Instances; Gershwin: An American in Paris
SEATTLE SYMPHONY
Founded in 1903, the Seattle Symphony is one of America’s leading symphony orchestras and is internationally acclaimed for its innovative programming and extensive recording history. Under the leadership of Music Director Ludovic Morlot since September 2011, the Symphony is heard live from September through July by more than 300,000 people annually. It performs in one of the finest modern concert halls in the world — the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall — in downtown Seattle. Its extensive education and community-engagement programs reach over 100,000 children and adults each year. The Seattle Symphony has a deep commitment to new music, commissioning many works by living composers each season, including John Luther Adams’ recent Become Ocean, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music. The orchestra has made more than 140 recordings and has received 12 Grammy nominations, two Emmy Awards and numerous other accolades. In 2014 the Symphony launched its in-house recording label, Seattle Symphony Media.