Yarlung Records: 10th Anniversary

Grammy Award winning Yarlung Records celebrates its 10th Anniversary and continues to bring fresh musicians to the classical music world using minimalist audiophile recording techniques to deliver sound as close to living performance as possible.

Yarlung engineers these albums in concert halls famous for their acoustics, such as Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

It is the quality of the music and the talent of Yarlung’s musicians that have enabled our success. Yarlung wants the presentation to be like a clean window, which does not distract from the beautiful 'view' on the other side. An example of this was 'Antonio Lysy at The Broad: Music from Argentina', which won our first Grammy Award and was ranked in The Absolute Sound as one of the 40 best recordings of all time.

Two of the reasons people support Yarlung are the strength of our mission and the quality of our product. Despite Yarlung’s small size, reviews in North America, Europe and Asia recognize Yarlung’s importance as one of the highest quality record labels in the world today. Thanks for your support during Yarlung’s first decade! We look forward to the future.

Track Listing:
CD 1
1. Recercada Ottava (Diego Ortiz)
Ciaramella Ensemble

2. Juego de Relojes (Game of Clocks) (Diego Schissi)
Smoke & Mirrors Percussion Ensemble

3. I’m Old Fashioned (Jerome Kern)
Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet

4. String Trio in C Minor: Mov III, Scherzo (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Janaki String Trio

5. Violin Concerto in D Major: Mov II, Romanze (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
Nigel Armstrong, The Colburn Orchestra / Sir Neville Marriner

6. Ropes of Sand (Misha Bigos)
Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet

7. Partita No.2 in D Minor, Ciaccona (J S Bach)
Petteri Iivonen (violin)

8. J’ay pris amours (Heinrich Isaac)
Ciaramella Ensemble

9. Brandenburg Concerto No.4: Mov I (J S Bach)
Margaret Batjer, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

10. For Sebastian, melody kernel (J S Bach)
Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet

11. Sonata for solo cello (György Ligeti)
Frédéric Rosselet (cello)

12. Symphony No.5, Adagietto (Gustav Mahler)
The Colburn Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz

13. Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (opening) (J S Bach)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Kahane

CD 2
1. Ombra mai fu (George Frideric Handel)
Sasha Cooke, Yehuda Gilad, The Colburn Orchestra

2. Happenstance: Mov IV (Derek Tywoniuk)
Smoke & Mirrors Percussion Ensemble

3. Graciela y Buenos Aires (Jose Bragato)
Antonio Lysy, The Capitol Ensemble

4. Chiaccona in partite variate (A Piccinini)
Jason Yoshida (theorbo)

5. Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol)
Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet

6. Chinbep puja (Blessing of the Environment)
The Monks of Nechung Monastery

7. Ballade No.1 in G Minor (Frederic Chopin)
Joanne Pearce Martin (piano)

8. Simpler Times (Gary Wicks)
Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet

9. L’Eroica (Andrea Falconieri)
Ciaramella Ensemble

10. Sonata No.3 in D Minor: Mov III & IV (Johannes Brahms)
Petteri Iivonen (violin), Kevin Fitz-Gerald (piano)

11. watch me vanish, watch me? (Derek Tywoniuk)
Smoke & Mirrors Percussion Ensemble

12. String Trio: Obstinate Spaces (Jason Barabba)
Janaki String Trio

13. Nocturne in C-sharp Minor (Frederic Chopin)
David Fung (piano)

14. Missing Moon (Tan Dun)
David Fung (piano)

15. Zamba (Alberto Ginastera)
Antonio Lysy (‘cello), Bryan Pezzone (piano)

16. Gone (Andrew Boyle)
Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet