Album Review by Classics Today: Fabulous Villa-Lobos From Brazil For Exotic Instruments
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Highlights include Women’s Suffrage Centennial Celebration, Mozart Fest, Beethoven’s choral masterpiece Missa Solemnis and five recording projects of works by Julia Wolfe, C.F. Kip Winger, Wayne Oquin, Antonio Estévez and Paul Hindemith.
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Giancarlo Guerrero (Bienen MFA ‘92) is a six-time Grammy winner, and nine-time nominee, most famous for his work as the music director of the Nashville Symphony, a position he has held for 11 years. He has released several albums with the Symphony, primarily focusing on the work of modern American composers. He and the Symphony are nominated for Best Classical Compendium for their recording of a symphony by composer Jonathan Leshnoff. The Daily chatted with Guerrero about his work with the Symphony, and how he feels being nominated for another Grammy.
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This winter, Giancarlo and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic will tour 12 US cities with soloists David Fray, Piotr Anderszewski, Janusz Wawrowski and Bomsori Kim. Throughout the tour, which begins in Florida and includes stops in Chicago, Indianapolis, Nashville and throughout California, the orchestra will perform works of Polish composers from across three generations, including Chopin, Szymanowski and Lutosławski, along with Central European composers Dvořák and Bartók.
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A “Nashville Moment” with six-time Grammy-winner and Nashville Symphony Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero in Nashville Lifestyles, November 2019
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Giancarlo Guerrero receives Best Classical Compendium nomination for his recording of works by Jonathan Leshnoff with the Nashville Symphony and Jason Vieaux.
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Giancarlo Guerrero leads the São Paulo Symphony in performances featuring Manuel Barrueco and José Staneck in new album out November 8
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CSO review: A joyous and all-too-rare evening of Spanish and Latin American music
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On May 2, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Naxos will release world premiere recordings of music by composer Jonathan Leshnoff performed by the Nashville Symphony, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and guitarist Jason Vieaux, including Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos,” written for the Violins of Hope, a collection of instruments played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.
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“Giancarlo Guerrero brings out not just the drama but also the many subtleties in the score...John Harbison has been well served by this recording.”
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“Given the results of this recording, it is no surprise that the Nicaraguan, raised in Costa Rica, Music Director in Nashville and Principal Guest in Lisbon, be a conductor increasingly valued everywhere.”
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“Ponzio successfully brings life to her bronzes, using the language of the figure to speak of emotional experiences. In the bronze bust of Guerrero, she was able to capture his seriousness as an artist and his joy in creating music.”
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“The Nashville Symphony Chorus has really grasped the measure of this music and delivers a compelling account, with exemplary diction, bundles of rhythmic energy when needed and even tone. Together with four excellent soloists, Giancarlo and his Nashville forces deliver a first rate performance of the piece.”
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"All told, this is a solidly reliable account of a worthwhile work.”
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“The choral and orchestral forces are magnificent throughout and Giancarlo Guerrero keeps them moving and fully committed. The recording, made during performances in May 2017 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, has the size and space it needs to capture the colors and textures of Harbison’s rich orchestration and the impact of his powerful vision.”
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“It’s the kind of music you will want to listen to multiple times, appreciating the skill of the composition and the sweep of the performances…Highly recommended.”
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“Everything conspired to make this concert at once a worthy celebration of Gary Graffman’s 90th birthday and a musical experience worthy of the much-loved former Curtis president’s lofty standards…Giancarlo Guerrero is quite a conductor, and his leadership, abetted by the contributions of an equally accomplished and subtle soloist and a lavishly talented student orchestra, pulled off the rare feat of making Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto sound like a work I was hearing for the first time.” (Photo Credit: David DeBalko)
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“The concert was pretty fabulous.” Dallas Morning News
“A technicolor romp through some of the most exciting works in the repertoire.” Theater Jones
“Guerrero brings insight (and showmanship) to DSO.” Texas Classical Review
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Giancarlo Guerrero performs Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto with violinist Benjamin Beilman
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