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'Schubertreise' Volume 2

Artist(s): Joy Lisney, cello & James Lisney, piano

Composer(s): Schubert, Vriend, Chopin, Debussy, Lutoslawski

The second volume of Schubertreise features works by Schubert, contemporary Dutch composer Jan Vriend, Chopin, Debussy and Lutoslawski, and marks the recording debut of young British 'cellist Joy Lisney.
By Fran Wilson | 09 May 2013 | Comments | 49 views
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Sometimes the City is Silent

Artist(s): Meerenai Shim, featuring pianist Lori Lack and cellist Rachel Turner Houk!

Composer(s): Various


Meerenai Engages the Listener with Pure Flute Technique and Sound on her Debut Album

Flutes are delightfully simple, yet incredibly complex instruments. When you look at the wave form, the sound of the flute is pure and clean. The emotional range ...
By Chip Michael | 22 Sep 2011 | Comments | 797 views
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Oasis Quartet: Glass, Gotkovsky, Escaich

Artist(s): Oasis Saxophone Quartet

Composer(s): Thierry Eschaich, Philip Glass, Ida Gotkovsky

The saxophones of the Oasis Quartet bound through the full range of expression and energy in their new self-titled release on the Innova label. Armed with Ida Gotkovsky’s Quatour (1983), Thierry Escaich’s Le Bal (2003) and a 2007 arrangement of Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima), the Oasis Quartet spans the Atlantic, compellingly illustrating strong traditions in saxophone quartet repertoire. The group’s members – James Bunte, Dave Camwell, Nathan Nabb and James Romain – unite the CD’s stylistically divergent content with their collective crispness, obvious instrumental mastery and subtly executed interpretations.
By Garrett Schumann | 18 Jun 2011 | Comments | 422 views
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Piano Concerto, "The Solway Canal"/After Handel's Vesper/Ramble on Cortona

Artist(s): Ralph van Raat, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Capella Amsterdam

Composer(s): Gavin Bryars

"There's another way of making music: by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.” This quote from Gavin Bryars points to his mission as a composer, and is revealed through some of his new music for piano.
By Andrei Strizek | 13 Apr 2011 | Comments | 851 views
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Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Artist(s): Mark Fewer, violin John Novacek, piano

Composer(s): George Antheil

Seldom heard violin and piano repertoire by George Antheil, expertly performed by Mark Fewer and John Novacek
By Marjorie Kransberg-Talvi | 05 Apr 2011 | Comments | 582 views
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Mozart, Hummel, Mendelssohn

Artist(s): Daria Gloukhova

Composer(s): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Felix Mendelssohn

There are pianists who will never surprise me anymore (Petrov and others); there are such of them who are possibly able to surprise me in the future (Matsuev); but also there are those from whom I expect surprise again and again. Those pianists, in particular, include Darya Gloukhova. There are two of her qualities which keep surprising me: doubts, above which I rank only a gift, and search.
By Arkadi Troitsky | 30 Nov 2010 | Comments | 309 views
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