Gramophone Magazine’s 2020 Awards Issue reviews the Latvian Radio Choir’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “The importance in Armenian culture of Komitas, priest-monk, composer, arranger, transcriber, conductor, can hardly be overestimated. … his transcriptions of western Armenian folk music effectively saved the tradition from extinction. … The Divine Liturgy was first published in 1933…
Gramophone Magazine reviews Jonah Kim and Sean Kennard’s Rachmaninoff & Barber Cello Sonatas recording in the 2020 Awards Issue: “These are works of young firebrands, full of emotional urgency and heightened instrumental challenges, which are met to striking effect in the performances offered on this new recording by the cellist Jonah Kim and pianist Sean…
Gramophone‘s December 2019 Sounds of America section featured a new review of Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates recording: “Bates’s versatility is further revealed on this disc of superb choral works featuring the inspired Cappella SF. In Sirens, six movements of beguiling and varied settings for a cappella chorus,…
Gramophone reviews Veronika Dzhioeva’s Ritorna Vincitor! recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony in the 2019 Awards Issue: “Though it clocks it at just under an hour, there’s plenty of bang for your buck in this high-voltage recital by a rising soprano … Veronika Dzhioeva has the impressive breath control and cutting edge…
Gramophone Magazine’s Awards Issue has a review for Conspirare’s recording of The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad: “Thoreau’s words go far in encapsulating many of the works on this first full disc of the American composer’s music, especially as performed by the sterling Austin-based choral ensemble Conspirare. Runestad has wedded exquisite music…
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 Jazz Critic, Marc Rochester has a new review for Piet Koornhof and Albie van Schalkwyk‘s Frolov and Friends recording: “Frolov was a violin virtuoso, and these pieces are far more challenging than they sound. It is a huge tribute to Koornhof that he makes them all sound so effortless, coaxing the often sentimental…
The “Sounds of America” section of the 2018 Awards Issue of Gramophone Magazine has a fantastic look at the new Asia / America New Music Institute (AANMI) recording, Transcendent: “The compelling repertoire that the Asia/America New Music Institute presents on its new disc, ‘Transcendent’, speaks volumes for the high level of creativity flourishing in the…
Order Now “Beethoven and Brahms’s clarinet trios make a superb pair. … The performers on this Delos recording seem…comfortable in Brahms’s crepuscular world. Pianist Arnon Erez gives the triplet figures in the first movement a nervous urgency that offsets the music’s expansive lyricism, while he phrases the dancelike third movement generously. Clarinettist Amitai Vardi floats…
Gramophone Magazine’s September issue has a great celebration of longtime Delos artist Gerard Schwarz in honor of his 70th birthday with a discussion of life in the recording studio – as both a performer and conductor. The issue also reviews his new book Behind the Baton: An American Icon Talks Music. We recently celebrated the…
Order Now “This recording presents an orchestration of Sviridov’s song-cycle on verses by Yesenin, Russia Cast Adrift, in a remarkable arrangement made by Evgeny Stetsyuk for orchestra and Russian folk instruments. It is remarkable because it brings out all the colour inherent in the piano original – think of the ‘symphonic dimension’ of the piano…
Gramophone Magazine has announced the 72 recordings that have been shortlisted for the 2017 Gramophone Classical Music Awards and Jamie Barton and Brian Zeger’s All Who Wander recording has been nominated in the Solo Vocal category! Revisit the original Gramophone review below: Order Now “Anyone who watched Jamie Barton sail serenely to victory at 2013’s…
Order Now “The fact that, even today, performances and recordings of Debussy’s 12 Études from 1915 are relatively scarce makes the appearance of any complete recording a cause for curiosity. The latest is by the Chilean-American pianist Paulina Zamora, who now teaches at the University of Chile in Santiago. A sincere and persuasive musician, Zamora’s…
Order Now Gramophone Magazine highlights the Dan Visconti title-work on Gabriela Martinez’s new Amplified Soul recording in their January Issue: “Dan Visconti’s title-track begins tentatively and sparingly, slowly building up into Sondheim-esque patterns that traverse the entire keyboard and explode, like a kitten working its way out of a bag and emerging like a tiger,…
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