MusicWeb International critic David Barker reviews Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Cello Concerto & Other Works featuring Zuill Bailey, Francesco Lecce-Chong, Elizabeth Dorman, and the Santa Rosa Symphony: “exceptionally enjoyable, rich in diverse moods, glorious melodies, and catchy rhythms. … Peanuts Gallery is one of Zwilich’s best-loved works… For sheer joyous pleasure, it is hard to go past Snoopy…
Eleonor Bindman’s Bach Partitas recording receives an in-depth review from MusicWeb International: “Suitably humbled by the inexhaustible greatness of Bach, I can say that…I have listened to these recordings a lot. With long stretches of music such as the complete Partitas, it helps to have a personable guide and Bindman is certainly that. … Bindman…
Olga Kern and the Dalí Quartet’s Brahms & Shostakovich Piano Quintets recording gets a warm recommendation from MusicWeb International: “Their performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet opens with a deliberately paced, but never heavy “Prelude,” whose breadth is sustained by Kern’s noble tone and bronzen voicing, as well as the Dalís’ discreet, but effective swooping. Together…
Göran Forsling offers a fourth MusicWeb International review of Oksana Volkova’s Poison d’Amour release with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony: “It was also as Maddalena I first met her in the Delos recording of Rigoletto with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the title role… Maddalena is hardly a role that catapults a singer to stardom, but even…
Critic Michael Cookson reviews Ekaterina Siurina, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s recording, Amour éternel, in MusicWeb International: “From start to finish in this studio recital, Siurina impresses with an accomplished performance, by turns assertive, vulnerable, passionate, sensitive, and tormented. … In a most convincing performance, Siurina demonstrates her smooth, attractive tone and satisfying levels…
Critic Göran Forsling reviews Ekaterina Siurina, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s recording, Amour éternel, in MusicWeb International: “Ekaterina Siurina has a beautiful voice, sings with good legato, is careful with nuances and her top rings out with brilliance. She has also a good trill, which she displays in Juliette’s Je veux vivre.… she is…
MusicWeb International gives their “Recommended” status to the Latvian Radio Choir’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “The Latvian Radio Choir, a professional body of around 25 singers, have exceptional skills.… there is a clarity to their expression. Hovhannes Badalyan, who sings the parts allocated to the priest, is himself a priest of the Armenian…
MusicWeb International has a second review for Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jory Vinikour, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra: “performed here with verve and commitment… beautifully sung by Isabel Bayrakdarian… This is great music, dramatic and melodious and gives the singer plenty of opportunities to display both her technical capacity and the beauty…
MusicWeb International Reviews Les Temps Modernes recording, December Chrysanthemum: Chamber Music of Xiaogang Ye: “Xiaogang Ye’s booklet notes are illuminating and in respect of the first piece he explains that Basong Cuo is one of nine lakes in Tibet which are considered holy. The music seeks to describe the atmosphere of the lake and the emotional reaction…
MusicWeb International offers a extensive, rave review for Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, Jory Vinikour, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s new recording, The Other Cleopatra: “Ms. Bayrakdarian’s voice is both very appealing and highly versatile… what I have noticed about her voice is its strength throughout her range. But she also has a fine sense for…
MusicWeb International‘s critics have released their 2019 Recordings of the Year and critic Ralph Moore has selected our Verdi: Messa da Requiem CD/Blu-Ray/DVD/Download! “We are hardly short of recordings of Verdi’s Requiem but I recommend this new version by one of the greatest living Russian conductors, Yuri Temirkanov, as it stars two great female singers…
MusicWeb International critic Steve Arloff reviews David Shifrin and the Miró, Dover, and Jasper String Quartets recording, Spring Forward: Music for Clarinet and String Quartet: “I find myself repeating the same impressions when reviewing works by American composers: they are always fascinating in their exploration of new ideas, and long may it remain so. There…
Richard Hanlon reviews Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s recording of Mass Transmission: Choral Works By Mason Bates on MusicWeb International: “Sirens actually dates from 2009, and certain fingerprints of what might be deemed as Bates’ mature language are present and correct. It’s a fine sequence, luxuriantly performed by Cappella SF under their founding conductor Ragnar Bohlin.…
“It is easy to listen to this through the prism of sadness at a life cut short in its prime… But shorn of such sentiment and nostalgia, this performance still stands proud on its own terms; whatever else he was, Granados was clearly a gifted clarinettist with a strong empathy for the nostalgic sentimentality of…
MusicWeb International‘s Jonathan Woolf reviews Piano Music of John Knowles Paine by pianist Christopher Atzinger: “Paine’s piano music hasn’t really been explored in much depth.… So all thanks are due to Christopher Atzinger for getting to grips with a body of Paine’s piano repertoire. It shows Paine’s rootedness in the German romantic literature of his…
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