This album includes the concerto’s premiere performance in Chicago on the evening of December 15th, 2011, with Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the CSO with Baird Dodge as soloist.  Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti enthusiastically supported the release of this recording. Martin Chalifour, another prized Yarlung musician, performed the West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado in 2012.

This is a recording of many firsts for Yarlung. This was our first Matheson recording, our first experience working at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and thanks to recording engineers Arian Jansen and Tom Caulfield, our first recordings in SonoruS Holographic Imaging and 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD as well.

NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield came from Boston to record Times Alone and Jim’s String Quartet in 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256 using five DPA 4006A microphones. Tom built a carbon fiber array to hold the microphones, which takes inspiration from a standard Decca Tree with three forward microphones and two additional surround microphones about twelve feet to the rear. Tom fed these microphones directly into his Merging Technologies Horus Analog to Digital Converter to record in DSD 256.

Baird Dodge, Violin
Laura Strickling, Soprano
Thomas Sauer, Piano
Color Field Quartet
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor

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