Warner Classics Signs AURORA ORCHESTRA for Three-Album Deal
By: Danielle DeSisto Mar. 28, 2014
Warner Classics has signed the UK-based Aurora Orchestra for a three-album recording contract. The first album, due out in Autumn 2014, will be the American-themed Road Trip and will feature the music of John Adams, Charles Ives and Aaron Copland, as well as three newly-commissioned song arrangements by composer Nico Muhly - two traditional songs along with Paul Simon's Hearts and Bones. US-based singer/songwriters Sam Amidon and Dawn Landes will contribute vocals to the recording.
Speaking of the new partnership, Jean Philippe?Rolland, Head of A&R at Warner Classics, said: "As a record label we are always looking for the great talents of tomorrow. Aurora Orchestra are undoubtedly one of the most creative and innovative ensembles in the music industry today. We are confident that with this new partnership we can work together to share their invigorating energy and love for music-making with an even wider audience. We are very proud to welcome them to the Warner Classics family."
John Harte (Chief Executive, Aurora Orchestra) added: "We are delighted to be partnering with Warner Classics in what is a hugely important opportunity for the orchestra to bring its performances to a worldwide audience and build a recorded legacy. Aurora has had a long-held ambition to release discs that truly reflect the orchestra's personality and programming style, and we are thrilled that the team at Warner Classics has embraced the idea with such enthusiasm. It's exciting to be making what we hope will feel to listeners like a genuinely new kind of orchestral recording in which constraints of musical genre disappear and there's an exhilarating sense of unfettered musical adventure."
Since its launch in 2005, Aurora Orchestra has rapidly established itself as the most significant new British chamber orchestra in a generation. Under the artistic direction of Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon, Aurora has developed flourishing London series at LSO St Luke's and Kings Place, and also enjoys an increasingly busy touring calendar both in the UK and internationally. It has worked with a roster of world-class artists including Ian Bostridge, Gerald Finley, Angelika Kirchschlager, Anthony Marwood, Kate Royal, Maxim Rysanov and Robin Ticciati. The orchestra is the youngest-ever recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society's prestigious Ensemble Award.
ROAD TRIP TRACKLISTING (ORDER TBC)
John Adams: Chamber Symphony
Trad. (arr. Nico Muhly): The Brown Girl
Charles Ives: 'The Housatonic at Stockbridge' from Three Places in New England
Trad. (arr. Nico Muhly): Reynardine
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
Paul Simon (arr. Nico Muhly): Hearts and Bones
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