Jonathan Woolf reviews Christopher Atzinger’s new recording of the Piano Music of John Knowles Paine on MusicWeb International: “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 time; the Romance, Op.39 is both gentle and…
Rafael de Acha reviews Veronika Dzhioeva’s new Ritorna Vincitor! recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra: “The late Dimitri Hvorostovsky was right when he said: “What a gorgeous voice – like a Rolls Royce, she must sing in the best theaters in the world!” I agree. … The beautiful, big voiced, intensely…
Rafael de Acha has a new review for Robert DiLutis and the Mellifera Quartet‘s Clarinet Classics at Riversdale recording: “here, with the release of the lovely Clarinet Classics at Riversdale, we get acquainted with Weber’s technically challenging and melodically satisfying Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B flat Major. … In the process we gladly encounter…
Classical Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media’s “Major Themes” program has named Conspirare‘s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad one of their “top picks for must-hear recordings.” “This is the most highly anticipated choral album this year. Why? Conspirare, led by Craig Hella Johnson, is arguably America’s finest mixed-voice choir. And…
Ralph Moore reviews Veronika Dzhioeva‘s new Ritorna Vincitor! recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony on MusicWeb International: “She is the most exciting singer I have heard since the arrival of Dinara Alieva… my heart leapt when, even before she had sung a note, I heard the first words she spoke… Her enunciation…
Rafael de Acha’s Music Notes blog calls Christopher Atzinger’s Piano Music of John Knowles Paine “Sheer Listening Joy” in a new review: “Leave it to DELOS to keep surprising us with music off the beaten path! … This is by and large music written heart-on-sleeve, of a time where cares were about the honestly essential, music in…
Stephen Smoliar has a review for Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates recording on his blog, The Rehearsal Studio: “…the performance is expressively lush. [Mass Transmission] captures the spirit of nostalgia for those pioneering times with a clear-sighted account of how a new technology established the vanguard of a…
Fanfare’s July/August 2019 issue will feature the following rave for Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s Continent’s End Song Cycle recording featuring Buffy Baggott and Kevin Korth: “Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s response to the texts is visceral; the sheer drama of the opening song, “Granite and Cypress,” with its tumultuous piano opening below the imperious voice (“White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children…
Opera News names Stephen Costello‘s A Te, O Cara recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra a Critic’s Choice! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits. … Take, for example, the album’s opener, La Fille du Régiment’s ‘Ah! Mes amis.’ Costello does not reach for…
InfoDad reviews the new David Shifrin recording Spring Forward featuring works by Peter Schickele, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Richard Danielpour performed by the Miró Quartet, Jasper String Quartet, and Dover Quartet: “David Shifrin’s deeply felt and strong commitment to the new clarinet literature as well as more-classical clarinet works leads him again and again to…
“What defines a singer is not what he sings but how he sings it, and that includes not only the basic vocal equipment but the capacity to meet the demands of the vocal writing: endurance, range, volume, and cutting power. Add to that the musicianship, the ear for languages, and the stylistic flair expected from…
The April 2019 Issue of Gramophone Magazine reviews Continent’s End: Song Cycle by Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli in their Sounds of America section: “Nearly everything about this disc arrives like a bolt out of the blue. … Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli…composed Continent’s End by improvising vocal lines to Jeffers’s poems, which he then recorded, with piano-writing to follow. …epic qualities…
The April 2019 Issue of Gramophone Magazine reviews A Tribute To Danny Granados in their Sounds of America section: “This recording, made in 2011 with members of the HSO, gives an idea of just how superbly gifted a musician [Danny] Granados was. I was completely bowled over by this polished and poetic recording of Brahms’s…
MusicWeb International‘s Ralph Moore makes our new Verdi Messa da Requiem recording (digital video and audio, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray) a Recommended release! “I [reviewed] Temirkanov’s live 2009 recording [of the Verdi Requiem] and considered it good, if not first-class, but this latest live recording surpasses it by a considerable margin. … when the resonant Russian basses enter…
The March 2019 issue of Gramophone Magazine features a review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini‘s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording in their “Sounds of America” section: “[a] monumental approach to Joachim’s effective arrangements for violin and piano. … Höpcker’s grand rhetorical gestures work to the music’s advantage, notably in her convincingly massive and orchestrally…
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