Tomorrow

We just wanted to do a quick blog letting you know of something fun we're going to be doing on Twitter tomorrow in case you're not following us already. Tomorrow for Wine Wednesday we want your suggestions for what wines go best with our other three releases (Chanticleer's Fireside DVD, Christopher O'Riley's "Out Of My Hands," and Maestro Alex Gregory's "Bach On Steroids")

So follow us on Twitter tomorrow and give us your favorite pairing!

So make sure you're on Twitter and following: @WhiteTieRecords

Wine Classics to try

Since we've gone through our seven Wine Classics albums, we thought it would be fun to present some things in the theme "Wine Classics" that aren't musical! So today, we wanted to share a fun article from Food & Wine:

50 Wine Classics You Must Try
Ray Isle devises a 50-bottle introduction to the world's great wines.

By Ray Isle

What is a classic wine? It’s a wine that gives a definitive sense of a region or a style; it’s exemplary, a model of the form, even iconic—a standard-bearer. That doesn’t mean the wine is expensive (though some certainly are), nor that it’s made in extraordinarily limited amounts (though that’s sometimes true). In fact, among the 50 classics on these pages is a $12 cava from a producer that sells millions of cases a year.

We strongly encourage you to check out this site and go through their 50 Wine Classics!

Christopher O'Riley at UC-Irvine

A couple of weeks ago, Out Of My Hands artist, Christopher O'Riley hosted his NPR Program "From the Top" at the University of California - Irvine. Like he usually does during "From the Top" Mr. O'Riley features young musicians, and also plays some music himself. Today we came across a fantastic review of the UC-Irvine event that we just couldn't help but share:

From "Music by Anne-Marie Lynne":

Orange County Register

Pianist Christopher O’Riley’s “From the Top,” the most popular classical music radio show on the air today, is all about breaking the icy ritual of classical performance. Its formula is simple. Find talented young performers, chit-chat with them a bit, then let them play. It overturns the old Victorian admonition; here, children (and young adults) are seen and heard.

O’Riley brought the format, if not the broadcast, to Irvine Barclay Theatre Friday night as part of the venue’s 20th anniversary celebrations. In this iteration, he collaborated with music students from the University of California, Irvine. It all went smoothly, the performances, too, and the audience lapped it up.

The pre-performance interviews are crucial to the show’s success. O’Riley is a calm and composed interviewer, wry at times but never trying too hard. The goal is nothing more than to generate a little small talk and put the performers (and audience) at ease. To the three colorfully gowned, carefully coiffed young women who were his first guests he asked, “Who’s getting married?,” got a laugh, and we were off. We learned, for instance, that cellist Anne-Marie Alexander also studied criminology in addition to music, and enjoyed working on cars. The interviews are rather like Alex Trebek’s contestant interviews on “Jeopardy,” in fact, with the same humanizing result. “Musicians are real people too” is the message...continued on "Music by Anne-Marie Lynne"

We strongly encourage you to read the article in its entirety as the author goes into detail about Mr. O'Riley's performances and includes wonderful reactions from the young artists themselves.

Christopher O'Riley - Beyond Radiohead

We wanted to share this great write-up on Christopher O'Riley that we found in the Oakland Tribune. The article was in preparation for a concert that O'Riley gave at San Jose State, and it talked about how Christopher O'Riley's piano recital skills in the standard repertory are often overlooked because of his status as a radio host and because of his fame doing arrangements of Radiohead (like on our album "Out of My Hands"). But, the reason that O'Riley's been able to have the career he's had is that he above all else, an outstanding pianist.

Here is an excerpt from the article, and we encourage you to read it in its entirety at the Oakland Tribune Website.

Christopher O'Riley — radio host and Radiohead fan — to play works by Beethoven at S.J. State

By Richard Scheinin

...O'Riley also loves to talk about his No. 1 obsession of recent years: the band Radiohead, a favorite of many classical musicians. Trouble is, O'Riley's public profile as radio host and Radiohead lover has sometimes obscured the fact that he is also a piano recitalist of the first rank, one who routinely delves into core repertory. He has devoted most of his career to performing the works of Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Schumann and others — including Beethoven.

Now, here's your chance to witness O'Riley's talents as a Beethoven interpreter: Saturday at San Jose State University, he will give an all-Beethoven recital, performing a pair of monumental works, the Diabelli Variations and the late-period Sonata in C minor, Op. 111. He is coming at the invitation of the American Beethoven Society, which brings a leading Beethoven interpreter to San Jose State each year. Richard Goode, Garrick Ohlsson, Anton Kuerti and Angela Hewitt have performed in the past.

"And Chris's Beethoven is like no one else's," says William Meredith, director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State, the event's co-sponsor. (The concert is a benefit for the center's fund for acquiring new manuscripts, first editions and other Beethoveniana.) "He carries you away from banal everyday life into a wide-open creative musical space...

Read the full article on InsideBayArea.com

Wine Wednesday Complimentary Download - Cabernet Classics

We have introduced to you our seven "Wine Classics" compilations, and today we finish our series celebrating the weekly Twitter holiday "Wine Wednesday" here on our blog. To celebrate, each week we have posted a couple of tracks from each of our seven "Wine Classics" compilations. Today we present two tracks from Cabernet Classics. It is our hope that you will download these tracks and listen to them while enjoying your favorite Cabernet! If you're following us on Twitter (@WhiteTieRecords), let us know what Cabernet you're drinking and where it comes from. Most of all have a happy Wine Wednesday!

To create a perfect companion to your favorite Cabernet, your two complimentary tracks today are Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major: Mvt. 2. Lento, and Mendelssohn's Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61.

To download these tracks from Cabernet Classics, right-click the track links and save them to your computer!

The complete Cabernet Classics compilation is available on iTunes, Amazon, and practically any other download store.

White Tie Artist Tours

Today we just wanted to take some time and let you know of our artists current tour schedules so that you can check them out live!

Christopher O'Riley:

April 17, 2010: San Jose, CA: recital @ Beethoven Center featuring Diabelli Variations

May 8, 2010: Croton, NY: recital w/Carter Brey, cellist

May 14,15, 2010: Austin, TX Mozart Concerto, K. 595 w/Austin Symphony, Peter Bay, cond,

May 18, 2010: Ames, IA: live taping of From the Top

May 27, 2010: Los Angeles, CA: recital @ LA County Museam of Art

June 18, 2010: live taping of From the Top @ Gettysburg Festival

July 14, 2010: live taping of From the Top @ Young Artists Piano Camp, Minneapolis, MN

July 30, 2010: solo recital @ Caramoor Festival

Chanticleer:

04/10/10 New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7:00 PM

04/11/10 Boston, MA Jordan Hall, 3:00 PM

04/13/10 New York,, NY Private Event, TBA

04/15/10 Greenville, NC East Carolina University, 7:30 PM

04/17/10 Bethlehem, PA Educational Residency, 11:00am

04/17/10 Bethlehem, , PA Lehigh University, 8:00 PM

04/18/10 The Plains, VA Grace Episcopal Church, 5:00 PM

04/19/10 Winchester, VA Shenandoah University, 7:30pm

04/21/10 Cookeville, TN Educational Residency, TBA

04/21/10 Cookeville, TN Tennessee Tech University, TBA

04/24/10 Lima, OH Concert TBA, 7:30pm

04/24/2010 Lima, OH Interactive Educational Event, 11:00am

04/25/10 Cinncinnati, OH St. Peter in Chains, 3:00 PM

May, 2010

05/03/10 Portland, OR St. Philip Neri, 7:30 PM

05/04/10 Portland, OR Educational Residency, TBA

05/04/10 Portland, OR Kaul Auditorium, 7:30pm

05/06/10 Madison, WI Union Theater, 7:00 PM

05/07/10 St. Louis, MO St. Louis Cathedral, 8:00 PM

05/08/10 Columbia, MO Missouri United Methodist Church, 8:00 PM

05/10/10 Lincoln, NE First Plymouth Church, 7:00 PM

05/11/10 Omaha, NE St. Cecilias Cathedral, 7:30pm

05/13/2010 Malibu, CA Interactive Educational Event, 2:00pm

05/13/10 Malibu, CA Smothers Theater, 7:30pm

05/14/10 Santa Barbara, CA Campbell Hall, UCSB, 8:00pm

June, 2010

06/02/10 Berkeley, CA First Congregational Church, 8:00 PM

06/03/10 Sacramento, CA St. Francis Church, 8:00 PM

06/04/10 San Jose, CA St. Joseph Cathedral, 8:00 PM

06/05/10 San Francisco, CA Mission Dolores, 8:00 PM

06/14/10 Shanghai, China Expo 2010, TBA

Wine Wednesday Complimentary Download - Chardonnay Classics

We have introduced to you our seven "Wine Classics" compilations, and today we would like to continue our series celebrating the weekly Twitter holiday "Wine Wednesday" here on our blog. To celebrate, each week we will be posting a couple of tracks from each of our seven "Wine Classics" compilations. Today we present two tracks from Chardonnay Classics. It is our hope that you will download these tracks and listen to them while enjoying your favorite Chardonnay! If you're following us on Twitter (@WhiteTieRecords), let us know what Chardonnay you're drinking and where it comes from. Most of all have a happy Wine Wednesday!

To create a perfect companion to your favorite Chardonnay, your two complimentary tracks today are Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G Major "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", K525 — 2. Romanze, and Schubert's Rosamunde, Op. 27 Ballet Music #2.

To download these tracks from Chardonnay Classics, right-click the track links and save them to your computer!

The complete Chardonnay Classics compilation is available on iTunes, Amazon, and practically any other download store.

Wine of the Week - Chardonnay

Just for fun, since tomorrow is Wine Wednesday, we thought we would give you a heads-up on which wine our free downloads will be from. This way you can make sure you have the right wine for tomorrow! So this week our Wine Wednesday downloads will be from our Chardonnay Classics album.

Please tell us your favorite Merlot here, or on Facebook or Twitter!

And Get the past Free Downloads by Clicking HERE