The New York Times has a new series featuring artists and critics at large sharing their favorite recordings “That Will Make You Love the Violin” — and include two recent Delos recordings in their “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin” playlist on Spotify. “Jörg Widmanns’s book of 24 duos for violin and…
The Strad Magazine’s January 2020 issue features a review hailing Ilya Gringolts and Dmitry Kouzov’s Eisler, Ravel, Widmann Duos recording as “Gripping and beautifully played duos that demand committed listening”: “bold and hugely committed performances of three very striking duos spanning almost 90 years. … Gringolts and Kouzov are as one in shaping the gestures…
The Whole Note‘s Terry Robbins reviews Ilya Gringolts and Dmitry Kouzov’s Eisler, Ravel, Widmann Duos album in their December 2019 issue: “The central work on the disc is the two-volume 24 Duos for Violin and Cello from 2008 by the German composer Jörg Widmann. … the double stopping and special effects present technical difficulties that bring brilliant…
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…
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Bruce Hodges of The Juilliard Journal has a new review for Sean Hickey: Concertos and Juilliard alumni Dmitri Kouzov and Alexander Fiterstein. “In this recording of Sean Hickey’s beautifully understated Cello Concerto (2008), Dmitry Kouzov (Artist Diploma ’05 and teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick from 2006-09) plays it with grace and thoughtfulness…Kouzov combines a warm,…
Graham Rickson of The Arts Desk has a new rave review for Dmitry Kouzov’s new Shostakovich: Cello Concertos recording: “Dmitry Kouzov’s husky, sonorous cello tone adds extra Slavic gravitas to this pair of highly contrasted works. Kousov wisely accentuates each concerto’s emotional mood. … So much works well – piercing high woodwinds in the faster…
The second issue of the I Care If You Listen digital magazine is officially out, and within you’ll find a wonderful new review for Sean Hickey: Concertos: “Right from [The Cello Concerto] first movement’s searingly agitated opening flourish from the orchestra and the dramatic, sweeping cello statement that follows, the listener is aware this is…
Gramophone Magazine’s August 2013 publication features a praise-filled review of the new Sean Hickey: Concertos recording: “Sean Hickey’s two big three-movement concertos give their soloists a huge range of extended passages, riffs and cadenzas with which to stand up and out against often explosively colourful orchestral support (with frequent solo opportunities for the woodwinds and…
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) composed both of his cello concertos for Russian cellist and all-around musical icon Mstislav Rostropovich, also the composer’s dear friend. The Cello Concerto No. 1 was completed in 1959, at a time in post-Stalinist Russia when cultural restrictions had eased somewhat – though they were by no means a thing of the…
Classical Lost and Found‘s Bob McQuiston has a new review and recommendation of Sean Hickey — Concertos for classical fans and audiophiles alike: “one of America’s up-and-coming composers judging from an earlier highly successful CD of his chamber music (2005), and the two concertos on this new Delos release. “Both of the concertante pieces are…
Sean Hickey and his new Delos recording gets an extensive feature on NewMusicBox: “…he also described the formative influences of recordings by Frank Zappa, as well as hearing a live performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments when he was 16 years old … all these elements fuse with an…
Now Available for Digital Download – Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Dmitry Kouzov, cello Vladimir Lande, conductor; St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra “Dmitry Kouzov is a true artist” – Mstislav Rostropovich No faint praise, coming as it does from Russia’s greatest-ever cellist and all-round musical icon, to whom Shostakovich dedicated both of the wonderful concertos recorded here.…
Sean Hickey: Cello and Clarinet Concertos Composer Sean Hickey Dmitry Kouzov, cello • Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet • Vladimir Lande, conductor • St. Petersburg Orchestras “He writes tonal, highly rhythmic music that’s easily grasped. Clarity, immediacy of expression, precise craftsmanship and a tannic, neoclassic bite are virtues…” Thus did The Detroit Free Press respond to Left…
Sean Hickey: Cello and Clarinet Concertos Now Available for Download Everywhere! Composer Sean Hickey Dmitry Kouzov, cello • Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet • Vladimir Lande, conductor • St. Petersburg Orchestras “He writes tonal, highly rhythmic music that’s easily grasped. Clarity, immediacy of expression, precise craftsmanship and a tannic, neoclassic bite are virtues…” Thus did The Detroit…
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