Robert De Cormier News
American conductor and composer
- classical music, folk music, pop music
- United States of America
- conductor, composer, music arranger, music director
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2022-06-04 18:07:52
The Equation of Time Derek Charke, flute; Eugene Cormier, guitar; Celso Machado, percussion Leaf Music, 2022 The Equation of Time is a thorough exploration of how listeners, performers, and ¬composers experience music differently in relation to time. In the first six works, ¬composed by Celso Machado, the upbeat nature of the Charke-Cormier Duo’s guitar and [...]
2021-07-16 14:09:51
Derek Charke, composer and flute; Eugene Cormier, guitar (Leaf Music, LM234) Bathymetric Terrains muses on the ecology of oceans and tidal bays. This visual album included a full-length video version of the album that combines elements of the live video projections used in on-stage performances with newly acquired footage of the duo playing their instruments on [...]
2019-05-06 04:47:00
Haydn: Cello Concertos (CD review)
Also, Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Cello. Christoph Croise, cello; Sherniyaz Mussakhan, violin; Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Avie AV2402.At first blush it may seem incongruous that noted French-German-Swiss cellist Christoph Croise would record pieces by two such seemingly disparate composers as Joseph Haydn and Antonio Vivaldi to pair up on this album. After all, Haydn (1732-1809) is, along with Mozart, probably the most well-known musician of the Classical Period (around 1730-1820), and Vivaldi (1678-1741) is, along with Bach, probably the leading exponent of the Baroque Age (roughly 1600-1760). Yet, upon closer examination we see that Haydn completed his First Cello Concerto relatively early in life, mid 1760's, and Vivaldi wrote his Concerto for Violin and Cello relatively late in life, somewhere in the 1720's. So only about forty years separate the two works. While they may sound different, it's possibly more the result of the compositional styles of their authors […]
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