Colin Clarke reviews Jonah Kim and Robert Koenig’s Approaching Autumn release featuring Grieg, Kodály, and Mark Abel in Fanfare Magazine: “This disc, titled Approaching Autumn, is a real statement from the heart for Korean-born cellist Jonah Kim… his aim is to find “common areas” between people(s) and to learn “what we all actually care about.”…
“The musical vocabulary … is approachable, mostly easy on the ear and … somewhat timeless.” “Myths have fierce contemporary relevance, and nowhere more so than (in the song Those Who Loved Medusa), where the rape … plugs directly into the ‘Me Too’ movement.” Composer Mark Abel is clearly at home writing for the human voice.…
Colin Clarke, offers a second Fanfare Magazine review for Carol Rosenberger‘s To Play Again Memoir: “Reviewing Carol Rosenberger’s valuable two-disc set of Szymanowski for Fanfare recently, I found the interpretations intriguing and often beautiful. This book provides the background: the story of Rosenberger’s valiant battle with polio and her triumphant, heard-won return to piano proficiency…
Buy from Delos Fanfare Magazine critic Colin Clarke gives Watercolors a Five Star Review! “In an interview with Merlin Patterson in Fanfare 39:3, conductor Franz Anton Krager referred to composer Robert Nelson in the following terms: ‘Bob Nelson and his expeditious creative powers are as close to a modern-day Mozart as one can be. His…
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