All Music Guide critic James Manheim gives a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating to the Latvian Radio Choir and Sigvards Klava’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “This version by the Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Klava is the first non-Armenian recording of the work (the lead soloists are Armenian). It came about at the behest of Armenia’s ambassador to Latvia, who…
AllMusic gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to Mark Abel’s The Cave of Wondrous Voice: “Composer Mark Abel has been known for his distinctive vocal music idiom, late-Romantic in its aesthetic but often shading off into dissonance. Soprano Hila Plitmann knows his style well, and she is present here in Abel’s Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, with difficult but evocative texts translated into English…
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…
Order Now A “Throwback” review for Haik Kazazyan’s Delos debut release, Opera Fantasies from AllMusic‘s Mike Brownell. Haik Kazazyan’s new release, Grieg: The Violin Sonatas is available worldwide TOMORROW, February 10th, 2017! “Variations on opera themes and opera fantasies have been around about as long as operas themselves. One particularly popular use of such works…
AllMusic Guide has a new review for our Kabalevsky DRD Re-issue: “…these are clean, enthusiastic performances of some of Kabalevsky’s most popular works. The Comedians, Op. 26, is crisp and downright fun… Romeo and Juliet, Op. 56, is a colorful setting … the three somewhat lesser known pieces that close out the album are very…
James Manheim has a new review for Mark Abel’s Terrain of the Heart CD and compares the three song cycles to the music of William Bolcolm and Leonard Bernstein: “California-based composer Mark Abel has developed a unique musical language that incorporates strong influences from rock music without losing the basic shape of classical song. He…
“A bit like a West Coast William Bolcom, but not much like anything else out there, this is most highly recommended.” The Dream Gallery review from Allmusic.com
Allmusic Guide has released their “The Best Classical Albums of 2011 (so far)” list, and Andrew von Oeyen’s debut recording of Liszt Piano Music made the cut! See the full list here. From Allmusic.com: By V. Vasan “Andrew von Oeyen presents an album of all-Liszt pieces in which he gives it his all, something that…
Read the review of Pushkin Romances from the All Music Guide! Pushkin RomancesReview Performance: 4.5/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 by Stephen Eddins: Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s Pushkin Romances can be seen as a companion to his 2009 Delos release, Tchaikovsky Romances, which also features pianist Ivari Ilja. A remarkably versatile poet, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) provided the source material…
We wanted to share this review from allmusic.com of the album Piazzola Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by the Italian Saxophone Quartet: From Allmusic.comby James Manheim(4.5 Stars) Saxophone quartets have flourished along with brass quintets as concert presenters seek high-quality ensembles that don’t cost a fortune. The Italian Saxophone Quartet hasn’t been one of the…
Balakirev: Complete RomancesDE 3376; 013491337623James ManheimAllmusic.com, October 2009 The fiery piano work Islamey and some orchestral pieces are all that is known of Russian composer Mily Balakirev in the West, but these Romances — short art songs with a personal, sometimes over-the-top romantic expression — are quite familiar in Russophone areas, even among general listeners.…
Since we featured the “Iberia” album by the Brazilian Guitar Quartet as our 36-for-36 album last week, we thought we’d share a review that we received on Allmusic.com. The review received 5 stars (out of 5) for both Performance and Sound Quality! All Musicby Patsy Morita The Brazilian Guitar Quartet, the quartet that uses eight-string…
ALBÉNIZ: SUITE IBERIA — arranged by the Brazilian Guitar Quartet The Brazilian Guitar QuartetEverton Gloeden and Luiz Mantovani, 8-string guitarsTadeu do Amaral and Edson Lopes, 6-string guitars [DE 3364] “as warm and transcendentally evocative as Albeniz could have wished for.” (Allmusic) “BGQ Makes Historic Recording of Albéniz (Headline) “This CD is so good that one…
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