Sierra Aria

Bellini's first opera is also the most complicated when it comes to reconstructing the composer's various versions and revisions of it. A major step forward came in 2001 when a series of hitherto unknown sources housed in the Fondo Mascarello in the library of the Milan College of Music allowed many previous gaps to be filled and a number of questions to be answered. Above all it enabled knowledge of Adelson e Salvini to be revised radically. In its sole authentic complete version, Adelson e Salvini is a French-style "opera semiseria" in which musical numbers are separate from spoken dialogue.
Adelson e Salvini is a surprisingly fresh in approsch and heralds the great things that would later come from its composer.

Sierra Hull has been recognized from age 11 as a virtuoso mandolin-player, astonishing audiences and fellow-musicians alike. Now a seasoned touring musician nearing her mid-20s, Hull has delivered her most inspired, accomplished, and mature recorded work to date; no small feat. Weighted Mind is a landmark achievement, not just in Sierra Hull's career, but in the world of folk-pop, bluegrass, and acoustic music overall. With instrumentation comprised largely of mandolin, bass, and vocals, this is genre-transcending music at its best, with production by Béla Fleck and special harmony vocal guests Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens adding to the luster. Hull speaks eloquently, in her challenging and sensitive originals, her heartfelt vocals, and once again breaks new ground on the mandolin. Béla Fleck special guests on banjo on two tracks and duo partner, Ethan Jodziewicz, not only anchors the record on bass, but introduces us to a major new instrumental voice.

Sierra Hull is a rare talent: an artist who combines youthful intensity and energy with a sense of grace and maturity well beyond her years. Secrets, her national debut, features her fluidly, inventive mandolin playing and tender, wistful singing supported by a luminous cast of bluegrass masters. From full-on newgrass instrumentals to eloquent, heart-stopping ballads to playful modern bluegrass, Secrets heralds the arrival of a fresh, important new voice onto today's bluegrass scene.

Introducing American soprano Nadine Sierra with her debut album, There’s A Place for Us. The album is not only a showcase of her stunning, MET-seasoned vocalism but also a reflection of America’s history as a refuge for all. In this spirit, the album features music by Leonard Bernstein and émigrés Igor Stravinsky and Osvaldo Golijov, as well as songs from Heitor Villa-Lobos in homage to Sierra’s Portuguese roots. Offering her sumptuous voice in a range of genres from Brazilian art music to American opera and art song, Sierra reminds us that all music and all people have a place in America.

Mystic Crock and Fourth Dimension got in a ride and found themselves in unknown sierra. They felt ancients who had lived there, the rivers carving the mountains and all the spirits still energizing throughout the valleys beside mountain chains. Journey that sets you breathless, while you enjoy sound of the Mountains.