"In the symphonies, Axelrod will conduct the Grammy Award-winning Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (who, says Axelrod “truly play Brahms con amore”) and in the songs he will accompany from the piano. For the first release, in September 2013, the second and fourth symphonies will be coupled with songs sung by, respectively, Ana Maria Martinez and Indra Thomas. The second set of two symphonies and Lieder will be issued in 2014. The producer for the recording is multiple Grammy Award-winner Michael Fine, and fellow Grammy-winner Wolf Dieter Karwatky is engineer.
This is a major release for Telarc, and perhaps one of the most fascinating we’ve ever done,” says Telarc’s Vice President of Marketing Jason Linder, “John Axelrod has not only emerged as one of the finest conductors of today, he is also one of the music world’s great innovators and both sides of him come together in this concept."
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