Fields

To stay positive! This is the laudable intention of this new discographic proposal from the American trumpeter and singer Boney Fields. While the international health crisis forced the world to question the meaning of priorities in the heavy silence of widespread confinement, Boney Fields was already thinking about the next step. What is an artist worth if he doesn't go on stage? Boney Fields has so often experienced these moments of communion with entire crowds that he could not be satisfied with furtive appearances on social networks. So, he preferred to compose intensely in the tranquility of this historic planetary parenthesis. “Just Give Me Some Mo’” is the heartfelt wish of an artist eager to once again feel the vibrations of always breathtaking performances.

Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis are joined by two acclaimed musical forces - pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, of which Bell is Music Director – in a landmark joint recording, For the Love of Brahms (Sony Classical). Available September 30, 2016, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls “music about love and friendship.” Bell, Isserlis and Denk unite here in Brahms’s first published chamber work, the Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 in its rarely performed original 1854 version. Isserlis also joins Bell – as violin soloist and director – and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Brahms’s last orchestral work, the celebrated Double Concerto (for Violin and Cello) in A Minor, Op. 102. Bell, Isserlis and members of the Academy also offer the first recording of an unusual coupling: the slow movement of Schumann’s rarely heard Violin Concerto, in a version for string orchestra made by Benjamin Britten, who also added a short coda.