Fiammetta Tarli - FreedomThis recording's title, Freedom, reflects the disc's exploration of what composers produced when they did not start with a codified musical form but rather with a poetic idea. In this thought provoking program, both Schubert and Schumann's cycles show powers of evocation and characterization at their height, while in Schoenberg's music, pared back beyond it's essentials, we catch a glimpse into the elements of a psychological crisis. Fiammetta Tarli's

She gushes about the profound love she's come to know for her daughter on "Melody" and celebrates life's ups and downs on "Joy & Pain"

Concrete Knives have harnessed the unadulterated passion that floods their touted live show

Human cattle like a beef avalanche

in Northern Italy

La Fenice in Venice

Townes left the tapes to his widow

at the intersection between the German solo tradition and the Italian concerto

12 is in classical concerto form

Greensboro (UNCG)

The documentary "Taking Risks" follows all aspects of the production

in a closet at Younger's home

During preparations for my previous recording of Bach's partitas for violin