Gramophone Magazine’s Awards Issue has a review for Conspirare’s recording of The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad: “Thoreau’s words go far in encapsulating many of the works on this first full disc of the American composer’s music, especially as performed by the sterling Austin-based choral ensemble Conspirare. Runestad has wedded exquisite music…
AllMusic has a new review from James Manheim for Christopher Atzinger’s recording of The Piano Music of John Knowles Paine: “Christopher Atzinger effectively teases out the distinctive features. As a composer of piano music, Paine is at his best when he is humorous and homey. There aren’t really characteristically American features of his music; that would come with…
Deserted Garden by Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953) When the Chicago Symphony premiered Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 in 1933, it was the first time that a major orchestra performed a work by an African-American female composer. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and educated at the New England Conservatory, Price wrote music that shows influences from…
Master clarinetist David Shifrin partners with the Dover and Harlem String Quartets in an album that blazes with excitement. The three new quintets showcase the clarinet’s many moods and tones and explore the expressive capabilities of the string quartet as well. First on the album is Ducal Suite, featuring arrangements of compositions by Duke Ellington, followed by Chris Rogerson’s Thirty Thousand Days,…
The InfoDad review team reviews Piet Koornhof and Albie van Schalkwyk’s new Violin Plus One recording and gives it their highest rating! “Piet Koornhof and Albie van Schalkwyk are a superbly matched pair whose sensitivity and emotional resonance make their performances of emotive, lyrical, mostly well-known Romantic repertoire a joy in which to luxuriate. ……
Richard Hanlon reviews Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s recording of Mass Transmission: Choral Works By Mason Bates on MusicWeb International: “Sirens actually dates from 2009, and certain fingerprints of what might be deemed as Bates’ mature language are present and correct. It’s a fine sequence, luxuriantly performed by Cappella SF under their founding conductor Ragnar Bohlin.…
Limelight Magazine‘s Tony Way gives a four-star review to Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s recording of Mass Transmission: Choral Works By Mason Bates: “Bates’ mastery of vocal harmony, texture and rhythm is as impressive as the performance given by professional group, Cappella SF. … The inner [Mass Transmission] movement is a calm, choral oasis that…
The Whole Note Magazine’s October 2019 issue features a review for Robert DiLutis and the Mellifera Quartet’s Clarinet Classics at Riversdale: “What’s not to love about Carl Maria von Weber? … On Clarinet Classics at Riversdale, Robert DiLutis opens with Weber’s Quintet in B-flat Major OP. 34. Accompanied by the very fine Mellifera Quartet, DiLutis…
Tiina Kiik reviews A Tribute to Danny Granados in the September issue of The Whole Note magazine: “The Fidelis String Quartet is a tight ensemble with great musicality. Granados fits in so well that his unique colourful clarinet playing never overwhelms the quartet as it blends with the strings. Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op.115 is…
“It is easy to listen to this through the prism of sadness at a life cut short in its prime… But shorn of such sentiment and nostalgia, this performance still stands proud on its own terms; whatever else he was, Granados was clearly a gifted clarinettist with a strong empathy for the nostalgic sentimentality of…
MusicWeb International‘s Jonathan Woolf reviews Piano Music of John Knowles Paine by pianist Christopher Atzinger: “Paine’s piano music hasn’t really been explored in much depth.… So all thanks are due to Christopher Atzinger for getting to grips with a body of Paine’s piano repertoire. It shows Paine’s rootedness in the German romantic literature of his…
Gramophone Magazine’s Guy Rickards reviews Robert Dilutis and the Mellifera Quartet’s Clarinet Classics at Riversdale recording in the October 2019 issue’s Sounds of America section: “Sometimes, not as often as I would like, one listens to a new disc and knows from the very first phrase that it is a winner. This superbly performed programme…
Rafael de Acha reviews the new CD version of Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s Continent’s End recording: “Listening to Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s CONTINENT’S END I was struck by how both its music and its interpreters, the fine mezzo-soprano Buffy Baggott and her equally accomplished partner, pianist Kevin Korth perfectly embrace the text of the nine poems of Robinson Jeffers in the…
Virtuosi Ilya Gringolts, violin, and Dmitry Kouzov, cello, perform three great duos—two from the 20th century and one from the 21st. The graceful, expressive and witty Duo for Violin and Cello by Hanns Eisler, written when the composer was 26 years old, is a multifaceted work showcasing the composer’s brilliant intellect. In Jörg Widmann’s 24 Duos for Violin and Cello, from 2008, the…
The September/October 2019 issue of American Record Guide features Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s recording of Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates: “[Mason Bates’s] music is tonal, original, and finely wrought. … The combination of various languages [in Sirens] underlines the postmodern temporality. … Mass Transmissions is enticing and moving. … One of Bates’s…
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