BMOP/sound Releases Dalit Hadass Warshaw: Sirens, a Portrait CD of Selected Orchestral Works

Performances by the GRAMMY Award-Winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and Carolina Eyck (theremin) led by Conductor by Gil Rose

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“Continuing to shine in overlooked music from the last century (Gramophone),” the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), led by conductor Gil Rose, today announced the release of Dalit Hadass Warshaw: Sirens (#1103). Warshaw’s debut BMOP recording features a wide variety of her orchestral music spanning multiple decades, a trio of works with her primary instruments of piano and theremin pervasive throughout. Her music has been widely praised for its lyricism, unique orchestral palette, distinctive harmonic vocabulary, emotional intensity, and vivid portrayal of character.
 
“It was a genuine thrill to work with such brilliant musicians as Gil and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project: the passion and staggering abilities of the players, and their general implicit enthusiasm and interest in bringing to life new works, were both exciting and inspiring to engage with. I am so grateful for their excellence and dedication throughout the process, and I am tremendously excited to share this recording with you all.”   – Dalit Hadass Warshaw (b.1974)
 
Warshaw could be described as a classic prodigy, first as a pianist and soon as a composer. The recording begins with Responses (2016), Warshaw’s return to her first instrument—the piano—its colors and textures transforming into the same of the orchestra. A leading performer on her other instrument, the theremin, Warshaw wrote specifically for the incredible adeptness both technically and musically of theremin soloist Carolina Eyck, in the album’s eponymous work Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra (2017).

“Carolina possesses such versatility and musicianship, and her capacities are pretty much limitless," Warshaw said. "And there was no other performer I could have thought of to play this piece.” Upon receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016 to compose Sirens, Warshaw premiered the work with BMOP and Gil Rose to much acclaim. “A sublimely expressive concerto…Eyck’s theremin masqueraded as bassoon, violin, cello, electric bass, and even a chorus of human voices – but mostly it was entirely itself, pouring out winding ribbons of fluid, perfectly seamless song.” (The Boston Globe)
 
The earliest album’s work composed 25 years ago, Camille’s Dance (2000), is indicative of Warshaw’s “middle period” following a brief respite from composing. It recalls the story of sculptor Camille Claudel, the assistant, pupil and muse of August Rodin. “It is my depiction of the dance of her mind—of her phantoms—that was the force” behind her sculptures, not of joy, but of impending doom.
 
About Gil Rose
Gil Rose is one of today’s most trailblazing conductors, praised as “amazingly versatile” (The Boston Globe) with “a sense of style and sophistication” (Opera News). Equally at home performing core repertoire, new music, and lesser-known historic symphonic and operatic works, “Gil Rose is not just a fine conductor, but a peerless curator, sniffing out—and commissioning—off-trend, unheralded, and otherwise underplayed repertoire who nevertheless holds to unfailingly high standards of quality. In doing so, he’s built an indefinable, but unmistakable, personal aesthetic” (WQXR). A global leader in American contemporary music, GRAMMY Award-winner Rose is the founder of the performing and recording ensemble, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), who “bring an endlessly curious and almost archaeological mind to programming…with each concert, each recording, an essential step in a better direction” (The New York Times), as well as the founder of Odyssey Opera, praised by The New York Times as “bold and intriguing.” GilRoseConductor.com
 
About BMOP
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) is the premier orchestra in the United States dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A unique institution of crucial artistic importance to today’s musical world, BMOP exists to disseminate exceptional orchestral music of the present and recent past via performances and recordings of the highest caliber. Founded by Artistic Director Gil Rose in 1996, GRAMMY Award-winning BMOP has championed the works of composers whose careers span nine decades. Each season, Rose brings BMOP’s award-winning orchestra, renowned soloists, and influential composers to the stage of New England Conservatory’s historic Jordan Hall in a series that offers orchestral programming of unrivaled eclecticism. Musical America’s 2016 Ensemble of the Year, BMOP was awarded the 2021 Special Achievement Award from Gramophone Magazine as “an organization that has championed American music of the 20^th and 21^st century with passion and panache.” The musicians of BMOP are consistently lauded for the energy, imagination, and passion with which they infuse the music of the present era. BMOP.org
 
About BMOP/sound
BMOP/sound, BMOP’s independent record label, was created in 2008 to provide a platform for BMOP’s extensive archive of music, as well as to provide widespread, top-quality, permanent access to both classics of the 20th century and the music of today’s most innovative composers. BMOP/sound has garnered praise from the national and international press. It is the recipient of a 2020 GRAMMY Award for Tobias Picker: Fantastic Mr. Fox as well as nine GRAMMY nominations, and its releases have appeared on the year-end “Best of” lists of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, National Public Radio, American Record Guide, DownBeat, WBUR, NewMusicBox, and others. Admired, praised, and sought after by artists, presenters, critics, and audiophiles, BMOP and BMOP/sound are uniquely positioned to redefine the new music concert and recording experience. Launched in 2019, BMOP's digital radio station, BMOP/radio, streams BMOP/sound's entire catalog and airs special programming. BMOP.org