Eleonor Bindman’s Bach: Partitas recording makes an appearance in Fanfare Magazine’s “Not To Be Missed” section after a rave review from Raymond Tuttle: “Bindman takes issue with performers who speed through this music—and there are plenty of them. Their work is impressive on a technical level, but not always musically illuminating. It’s not that she…
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.”…
A second Fanfare critic has added our new recording of Bellini’s I Puritani to their “Not to be missed” list: “From Delos comes an impressive new studio release of Bellini’s final opera, I puritani, recorded at the Kaunas Philharmonic. …Lawrence Brownlee is one of the finest bel canto tenors of his generation. And, among tenors who have participated…
Fanfare Magazine critic Henry Fogel offers an absolute RAVE review for Sarah Coburn, Lawrence Brownlee, and Constantine Orbelian’s new recording of Bellini’s I Puritani: “This release is something we don’t see too often any more: a studio recording of a complete opera… This set takes its place comfortably alongside the finest available recordings of Bellini’s…
Fanfare Magazine’s Celeste Stokely gives a five-star review to Robert Taylor and the Taylor Festival Choir’s So Hallow’d the Time recording: “…exquisite beauty. Galante proves… that his music is worth seeking out and savoring by music lovers, and I am glad to make its acquaintance in this work. … Robert Taylor and his Taylor Festival…
Fanfare Magazine’s March/April 2021 issue features an incredible review for Andrew Balio and Bruce Bengtson’s Soli Deo Gloria – Bach recording: “My praise here is unabashedly stratospheric: This is, hands down, the most magnificent, eloquent, communicative trumpet playing I have ever heard in my life, and I have a whole shelf full of trumpet CDs…
Fanfare Magazine’s Henry Fogel reviews Smaro Gregoriadou’s A Healing Fire recording – see it as a Five Star Review on Amazon: “Gregoriadou is a Greek guitarist who draws a remarkably wide range of color from her guitar. The calm beauty of the third movement of the Bach violin sonata, simply marked Andante, is followed by…
The September/October issue of Fanfare includes a thoughtful review of The Cave of Wondrous Voice by Santa Fe writer Huntley Dent: “Abel’s opening work (depicts) the restless operation of intuition, which keeps turning back on itself to find fresh ways of saying things. His intuition darts from gesture to gesture very quickly, and the piece is finely…
Fanfare Magazine has added Mark Abel’s The Cave of Wondrous Voice recording to their “Not To Be Missed” Section! See Colin Clarke’s review and interview with Mark Abel on the Fanfare Archive: “Having previously enjoyed the music of Mark Abel, I had high hopes for the present release, The Cave of Wondrous Voice. I certainly was…
Fanfare Magazine has added Xiaogang Ye’s December Chrysanthemum recording to their “Not To Be Missed” list along with a new review and interview: “How to describe what we hear? …it takes direct exposure to realize how imaginative and moving these pieces are. …Standing for the entire album one might choose Colorful Sutra Banners, which refers to…
Fanfare Archive is featuring Stations of the Cross: Organ Improvisations by McNeil Robinson in its “Not To Be Missed” section! “this disc is not only apropos for the liturgical season, but also for surrounding dire circumstances that have plastered headlines of suffering, death, and self-sacrifice on our newspapers and television and computer screens, and provided…
Fanfare Magazine has added Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording to their “Not To Be Missed” section with a new interview and review from Jerry Dubins: “There is no way that Brahms’s original piano four-hands version or his arrangements for piano two hands of these dances could ever achieve the tonal…
James Altena reviews Margo Garrett and Paul Neubauer’s recording of Ernest Bloch: Music for Viola and Piano in the July/August 2018 issue of Fanfare Magazine: “This is exquisite playing and musicianship of the highest order. … Pianist Margo Garrett immediately arrests one’s attention by emphasizing the brittle dissonance of the initial arpeggiated opening chord, with…
Fanfare Magazine‘s Huntley Dent has a new review of Mark Abel’s latest Delos recording, Time and Distance: “…Few current songwriters rival Abel’s intriguing texts and their reach into so many psychological and cultural issues. Meaning and melody go hand in hand in a very contemporary way, which I truly admire.” “Abel, being just as serious…
“Abel combines tuneful original passages with rock and jazz elements to form unique tonal structures … a colorful blend of styles … a powerful emotional punch.” “(In the Rear View Mirror, Now) shows his mastery of tragedy as composer, musician and poet.” Composer Mark Abel’s new disc, Time and Distance, contains the world premieres of…
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