Eroica Classical Recordings
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Eroica Classical Recordings is a leading classical record label
, based in Carpinteria, California
in the United States
. It is internationally recognized for its Bartók
recordings, and discoverer of new talents. Eroica had initiated an intensive series of auditions, which have resulted in the signing of over a hundred brilliantly gifted new artists.
Chamber music
players and ensembles include the: Nothing But Valves brass quartet; Equinox string quartet
; Manchester Chamber Players; Westwind brass quintet
; Rudiakov piano
and bassoon
duo
; Abbott/Williams piano duo; Duo Cantico flute
and piano duo; Equal Temperament percussion
duo; Bologni/Bruno violin
and piano duo; Marasco/Vichi flute and piano duo; Carlini/Castellano bassoon and piano duo; Hanani/Levin cello and piano duo, Wissinger/Klibonoff flute and piano duo; Jiang violin duo; Dennis/Amalong flute and piano duo, Gulbard Quartet, Trio Ariana, the Zino Vinnikov
/Sergey Maltsev violin and piano duo, Duo Scaramouche piano 4-hands, Soli deo Gloria Baroque
trumpet
and organ
duo, Suzanne Teng Ensemble, String Orchestra
of New York City
, Hamidulin/Zoltan cello
and piano duo, Frey/Denton euphonium
and piano duo, and the Hollywood Guitar Duo.
Eroica soloists include the aforementioned concert pianist
s; violist
Scott Slapin
, the only artist to record the entire Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the viola; conductor
and violin
ist Guillermo Figueroa, the only artist to record all three Bartók
Sonatas for violin
on a single CD; lutenist F. Edgar Gilbert playing Lute
music from the Baroque
and Renaissance
periods; Carol Wood
playing Early Music
for harp
and voice; Andrea Steckermeier-Thiele playing contemporary harp works; Dominique Piana performing traditional and contemporary harp works, Cellists Yehuda Hanani
and Michael Rudiakov, each performing Johann Sebastian Bach
's Suite
s for cello Solo; Organist
Richard Heschke; Organist James Riker, opera tenor
Camillo d'Antonio, operatic sopranos Eileen Mager, Isolda Jones, Elin Carlson, and Alicia Solomon, and classical guitarists Jonathan Adams, Scott Morris, Glenn Strauss, Troy King, Susan McDonald and many others.
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
, based in Carpinteria, California
Carpinteria, California
Carpinteria is a small oceanside city located in southeastern Santa Barbara County, California, east of Santa Barbara and northwest of Ventura. The population was 13,040 at the 2010 census, down from 14,194 at the 2000 census....
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is internationally recognized for its Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
recordings, and discoverer of new talents. Eroica had initiated an intensive series of auditions, which have resulted in the signing of over a hundred brilliantly gifted new artists.
Chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
players and ensembles include the: Nothing But Valves brass quartet; Equinox string quartet
String quartet
A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
; Manchester Chamber Players; Westwind brass quintet
Brass quintet
A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. The most common instrumentation is two trumpets or cornets, one horn, one trombone or euphonium/baritone horn, and one tuba or bass trombone....
; Rudiakov piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
and bassoon
Bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
duo
Duet (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...
; Abbott/Williams piano duo; Duo Cantico flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
and piano duo; Equal Temperament percussion
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
duo; Bologni/Bruno violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
and piano duo; Marasco/Vichi flute and piano duo; Carlini/Castellano bassoon and piano duo; Hanani/Levin cello and piano duo, Wissinger/Klibonoff flute and piano duo; Jiang violin duo; Dennis/Amalong flute and piano duo, Gulbard Quartet, Trio Ariana, the Zino Vinnikov
Zino Vinnikov
Zino Vinnikov is one of the leading representatives of the St. Petersburg Russian violin tradition.He studied with Abram Shtern, and later at the Leningrad Conservatoire with Mikhail Waiman and Benjamin Sher, himself a pupil of the legendary Leopold Auer. While still a student, he won First...
/Sergey Maltsev violin and piano duo, Duo Scaramouche piano 4-hands, Soli deo Gloria Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
and organ
Organ (music)
The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
duo, Suzanne Teng Ensemble, String Orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
of New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Hamidulin/Zoltan cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
and piano duo, Frey/Denton euphonium
Euphonium
The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. It derives its name from the Greek word euphonos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced"...
and piano duo, and the Hollywood Guitar Duo.
Eroica soloists include the aforementioned concert pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
s; violist
Violist
-Notable violists:A* Julia Rebekka Adler * Sir Hugh Allen , conductor* Kris Allen * Johann Andreas Amon * Paul Angerer , composer* Steven Ansell * Atar Arad * Cecil Aronowitz...
Scott Slapin
Scott Slapin
Scott Slapins compositions have been performed by violists across the United States and Europe and at the Primrose, Tertis and ARD Competitions...
, the only artist to record the entire Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the viola; conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
and violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist Guillermo Figueroa, the only artist to record all three Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
Sonatas for violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
on a single CD; lutenist F. Edgar Gilbert playing Lute
Lute
Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
music from the Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
and Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
periods; Carol Wood
Carol Wood
Carol Wood is a current councilwoman-at-large for the City of Lansing, MI having been elected for the At-Large position in November 1999, two years after an unsuccessful campaign for the 4th Ward in 1997....
playing Early Music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
for harp
Harp
The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...
and voice; Andrea Steckermeier-Thiele playing contemporary harp works; Dominique Piana performing traditional and contemporary harp works, Cellists Yehuda Hanani
Yehuda Hanani
Yehuda Hanani is an Israeli-American cellist. He is a Professor of Violoncello at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and an international soloist and master class teacher. Hanani studied with Leonard Rose at Juilliard and with Pablo Casals.At the age of 19, Hanani was taken...
and Michael Rudiakov, each performing Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
's Suite
Suite
In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...
s for cello Solo; Organist
Organist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...
Richard Heschke; Organist James Riker, opera tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Camillo d'Antonio, operatic sopranos Eileen Mager, Isolda Jones, Elin Carlson, and Alicia Solomon, and classical guitarists Jonathan Adams, Scott Morris, Glenn Strauss, Troy King, Susan McDonald and many others.