ÆMINIUM Records Official Podcast http://www.aeminiumrecords.com en-us © 2007 ÆMINIUM Records Aeminium Records - Featured Artists Podcast ÆMINIUM Records All About ÆMINIUM Records artists and their recordings ÆMINIUM Records is a small, artist-run, independent record label and recording studio, founded and solely owned by, critically acclaimed concert violinist and recording artist, Peter Ferreira. Since 2005, we've released a limited amount of recordings, made primarily by ourselves and a few artist friends. Our recordings concentrate on musical content, attention to detail and meticulous design. We have produced a limited amount of recordings because, until January 2007, our services were only available for private use, allowing us to focus on accomplishing our projects in our own time frame. Our recording services are now available to the public. Although we have a recording studio available, only a small amount of our recordings are made in the studio as we prefer the Live Recording setting and "real" sound. We freely admit that the music part of the music business interests us a lot more than the "business" part.... Great records can and should be inexpensive to create and inexpensive to buy! It's our belief that the freedom offered by the independent recording studios, creates as short a distance as possible between artist, label, and listener, allowing for more creativity and control of the work. To us, making good records is more important than making money! ÆMINIUM Records pferreira@peterferreira.com clean no The Improvisations http://www.peterferreira.com/listeningroomimprovisations.html The Improvisations - They are exactly what the name refers to... improvisations. They have been recorded during concerts or recording sessions without any preparation, planning and are definitely not played from a book or sheet music. Most times they are played while the recording crew sets-up the microphones and so the quality of the sound is not always the best. They are played and improvised from the heart! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says: Improvisation is an important aspect of music in general. Musical improvisers often understand the idiom of one or more musical styles—e.g. blues, rock, folk, jazz—and work within the idiom to express ideas with creativity and originality. Improvisation can take place as a solo performance, or interdependently in ensemble with other players. When done well, it often elicits gratifying emotional responses from the audience. Very few musicians have ever dared to offer fully improvised concerts such as the famous improvised piano recitals by composers/pianists like Franz Liszt, or the origins of Liszt's improvisation in an earlier tradition of playing variations on a theme that was mastered and epitomized by Mozart and Beethoven.

Recorded live by Aeminium Records (www.aeminiumrecords.com).

Peter Ferreira and Aeminium Records is pleased to share this concert for your listening pleasure. For details see www.aeminiumrecords.com and/or www.peterferreira.com.

]]> podcasts Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST The Improvisations clean no Peter Ferreira, Aeminium Records, Amadis Duo, Music, classical, classical music, art, free music, improvisations Massenet - Meditation from "Thais" http://www.peterferreira.com/listeningroommeditationm.html Thaïs is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra in Paris on March 16, 1894, starring the American soprano Sybil Sanderson, for whom Massenet had written the title role. Set in Roman Egypt, the story concerns a Cenobite monk, Athanaël, who attempts to convert Thaïs, a courtesan of Alexandria and devotée of Venus, to Christianity, but discovers, too late, that his obsession with her is rooted in lust. It has been described as bearing a kind of religious eroticism and has spawned many controversial productions. Its famous Méditation for violin, an entr'acte played before a closed curtain between the scenes of Act II, is among the most frequently performed concert pieces and has been arranged for many different instruments. After Manon and Werther, Thaïs is one of Massenet's most performed operas, but it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire. The role of Thaïs, similar to another Massenet heroine, Esclarmonde, is notoriously difficult to sing and is reserved for only the most gifted of performers. Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer. He is best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th century; they afterwards fell into oblivion for the most part, but have undergone periodic revivals since the 1980s. Certainly Manon and Werther have held the scene uninterruptedly for well over a century. He wrote the famous "Meditation" for his opera Thais. It has gone down as one of the great violin classics of all time..

Recorded live by Aeminium Records (www.aeminiumrecords.com).

Peter Ferreira and Aeminium Records is pleased to share this concert for your listening pleasure. For details see www.aeminiumrecords.com and/or www.peterferreira.com.

]]> podcasts Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EST Meditation from "Thais" clean no Peter Ferreira, Aeminium Records, Amadis Duo, Music, classical, classical music, art, free music, Massenet