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Suryodaya: “Magnificent Violin and Tabla interplay”

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In Suryodaya, the late Badal Roy made a triumphant return with his signature Indian drums, having played with legends like Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. This audiophile recording, made in the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, also features the incomparable Robert Gupta, who demonstrates his mastery of the Nathan Milstein Stradivarius violin from 1716…. Not only is Robert Gupta the youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but he is also a Senior TED fellow; the executive director of Street Symphony (which brings music to homeless mentally ill people); and the real-life violin teacher of Nathaniel Ayers, whose story was sensitively portrayed in the major motion picture The Soloist. Suryodaya takes us on a journey through time and across continents, from the opening Indian raga for violin in tabla (Raga Jaunpuri), to Medieval Europe with Biber’s famous Passacaglia, and to John Harbison’s Four Songs of Solitude and the Pereira suite Continue Reading →

Executive Producers – Yarlung Records

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Sponsorship, philanthropy and guidance from underwriters have always been critical to the success of music and the performing arts.  The choragoi, wealthy citizens of Athens, helped produce and pay for classical performances in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.   Before them, the pharaohs sponsored the arts in ancient Egypt.  Lorenzo de Medici and his Renaissance family were not the first patrons of the arts in western culture, and as long as the arts flourish, it will be visionary people who finance them and make them possible. Countess Yoko Nagae Ceschina, “Fairy Godmother to the New York Philharmonic,” died last month.  I appreciated this loving tribute in the New York Times. It is our executive producers who sponsor and make music possible at Yarlung Records.  They are our fairy godmothers and fairy godfathers, our modern Medicis, who work with us and support our musicians every year. Please join our executive producers Continue Reading →