The Infodad Team has a new review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording: “Listening to Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker’s performance on a new Delos CD is a tremendously involving and exhilarating experience, likely to make anyone familiar with this music wonder why Joachim’s transcription is not heard more often. … It may be that this version…
Rafael’s Music Notes declares Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s new recording a “Hungarian Feast”: “German violinist Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Italian pianist Fabio Bidini compellingly make a case with their playing for the erasing of any and all national boundaries. The duo lovingly makes this minor miracle happen by playing this category-defying music with equal quantities of Hungarian szenvedély and szomorú spiced with a nice…
Rafael’s Music Notes has the first review for Susanna Phillips, Shenyang, and Brian Zeger‘s new A Lost World recording: “…the Delos CD A Lost World is a welcome gift culled from the Schubert mother lode and a nice item to have in one’s collection of vocal rarities. … [Ganymede and Elysium] are sung here with delicacy and…
MusicWeb International has a new review for William Villaverde’s Cuban Memoirs recording of music by Andrés Alén: “I was attracted immediately by the directness of expression in Alén’s music, as well as William Villaverde’s committed and resoundingly positive performances. … This is a very fine disc of some enjoyable and rewarding music. If you the love…
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…
“It is with a mix of pleasure and surprise that I listened to Cuban Memoirs (DE3535), a Delos CD of piano music by Andrés Alén.…Through ten tracks, spanning roughly 54 minutes of playing time, the protean pianist William Villaverde. tackles and conquers the technical intricacies of Alén’s music. But that’s merely technique, and what matters in Villaverde’s playing are his soulful,…
Stereophile Magazine’s Jason Victor Serious has a RAVE review for the Asia / America New Music Institute‘s new recording, Transcendent: There is music so new, so original, so contemplative, and so deeply felt that it makes you want to listen, and then demands that you listen again. It’s music whose layers peel back over time,…
Joshua Kosman has a newly published review for Herschel Garfein’s Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss After 60 in the San Francisco Chronicle: “The emotional impact of ‘Mortality Mansions,’ weighty to begin with, grew even more poignant with the death of the 89-year-old poet Donald Hall at the end of June. In this shimmering,…
Gramophone Magazine has a new interview and review with David Shifrin about his new Delos recording of the music of Carl Nielsen in their August 2018 issue’s “Sounds of America” section: Gramophone Interview What first drew you to the music of Nielsen? I was 13 years old when I first heard Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto. I…
Strings Magazine reviews Hong-Mei Xiao’s English Works for Viola and Orchestra in their July 2018 issue: “Distinguished violist Hong-Mei Xiao showcases not only her virtuosity but also her keen interpretive skills in this appealing compilation of English works. … She plays with complete conviction and passion, and a luxuriantly warm tone that vividly captures its…
San Francisco Classical Voice‘s Lou Fancher spoke with Mark Abel about his latest Delos recording, Time and Distance: “During a phone conversation with composer Mark Abel, geometry explains the variegated art songs on his new CD, Time and Distance. Oscillating within a triangle whose end points are classical, rock, and jazz music, the San Simeon-based…
Rob Barnett adds a second MusicWeb International review for Hong-Mei Xiao’s English Works for Viola and Orchestra recording: “Three works by British composers, each for viola and orchestra but only one dubbed a Concerto. Avoidance of that term is justified in the case of the Vaughan Williams which is a series of instantly engaging and artfully…
Lynn René Bayley reviews Carol Rosenberger’s To Play Again memoir on The Art Music Lounge: “This is a remarkable memoir on several levels. … Woven through her story of excruciating pain, weakness, collapses and occasional immobility is Rosenberger’s indomitable, never-say-die spirit, inherited from her father. … When she couldn’t play piano, she taught it. When…
Stephen Smoliar reviews Cappella SF’s new Timeless: Ten Centuries of Music recording on his Rehearsal Studio blog: “…the selection on the album is definitely impressive for the scope of its variety… Thus, even the casual listener can come away with a sense of just how significantly things changed as practices of making music progressed from…
Dr. Kathline Colvin of Healthy Artists has a wonderful new review for Carol Rosenberger’s memoir, To Play Again: “ We marvel at how extraordinarily talented people create art that touches our lives and bestows so much beauty on our world. In her poignant memoir To Play Again, pianist Carol Rosenberger shares her inspiring life’s journey…
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