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Links to selection of NMP's recordings of Nietzsche's music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTT0DsGIkU&t=15s. (Eine Sylvesernacht/1864/Nick Eanet violin /John Bell Young, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ernbw1gCK7g (Eine Sylvesternacht/1864/Christian Hebel, violin/Thomas Coote, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZKl7zJEJk. (Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht/1871/Thomas Coote/Manolis Papasifakis, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqHry1X6fg4. (Manfred Meditation/1872/Thomas Coote/Manolis Papasifakis, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INykc2sDTAo. (Hymnus an die Freundschaft/Part 1/John Bell Young, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cean25AgYZM. (Hymnus an die Freundschaft/Part 2/John Bell Young, piano)
Links to selection of NMP's recordings of Nietzsche's music (continued); Recent Performances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTT0DsGIkU&t=15s. (Eine Sylvesernacht/1864/Nick Eanet violin /John Bell Young, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ernbw1gCK7g (Eine Sylvesternacht/1864/Christian Hebel, violin/Thomas Coote, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZKl7zJEJk. (Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht/1871/Thomas Coote/Manolis Papasifakis, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqHry1X6fg4. (Manfred Meditation/1872/Thomas Coote/Manolis Papasifakis, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INykc2sDTAo. (Hymnus an die Freundschaft/Part 1/John Bell Young, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cean25AgYZM. (Hymnus an die Freundschaft/Part 2/John Bell Young, piano)
From Black Broadway The Early Years 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zk4DX0cKVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zk4DX0cKVA (Highlights from Black Broadway :2026)
Black Broadway: The Early Years Highlights Reel at Brooklyn Music School (March 2026): https://youtu.be/0xZkh7irdCY?si=BvNycVloH96y9
Reviews
Many thanks for the CDs. They have given me great joy, and I find these recordings excellent. It is obvious that all four musicians have diligently studied these compositions, wonderfully dug into them, and in turn generated sensible performances. The Manfred-Meditation deserves special praise. I have never heard it rendered as well as here and had hitherto believed that the pianistic textures sounded simply bad. Now I have learned [that this is not the case]. I wonder what Herr von Bülow heard or did not hear. The harmonic language was perhaps too audacious for him; it goes far beyond Wagner. “
Curt Paul Janz, editor of the Nietzsche Musikalische Nachlaß 1993
“The performances argued ardently on Nietzsche’s behalf… Tali Makell delivered an elegant musico-philosophical lecture beforehand.”
Alex Ross , New York Times October 1994
“The Nietzsche Music Project were the perfect compliment to my course on Nietzsche and appealed to a wide and diverse audience who were eager to hear this underplayed music so beautifully performed."
Andrew J. Mitchell, Emory University April 2010
Black Broadway: The Early Years 2024
This concert and multimedia experience delves into the National Conservatory of Music of America’s impact under Antonín Dvořák, highlighting how early Black composers like Will Marion Cook and James Reece Europe shaped the sound of Broadway. This event honors the rich legacy of early Black Broadway with a 24-piece orchestra under the direction of Tali Makell, guest vocalists Stacey Sherrell and Sailor Mayberry, and a fusion of Dvoák’s compositions with African American spirituals."
—WBLS 107.5 FM “Essential Pics for Your Weekend Plans” (October 2024)
So much music of Black composers and performers is only being really heard and performed in the last 10 years thanks to the work of many dedicated thinkers, performers and visionary people, like conductor Tali Makell, who put forward this powerful claiming of the lesser-known narrative of Dvořák's American Quartet."
—Carol Gimbel, WFMU Classical Radio “Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People?” (November 2024)
“BLACK BROADWAY: THE EARLY YEARS at Roulette is a concert and multimedia exploration of the National Conservatory of Music of America's influences on early Broadway music under the leadership of Antonín Dvořák (director from 1892-1895). The performance pays special tribute to contributions by Black composers (Will Marion Cook, James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake) whose work influenced Broadway’s Golden Years through today.”
—Broadway World (October 2024)
Nietzsche Music Project Inc. programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the generous support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), The Buckhorn Association of Brooklyn, and our donors, partners, and collaborators.
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