Monthly Archive: July 2010
Richard Galliano – BACH – Badinerie, Violin Concerto, Air from Orch. Suite No. 3, Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1, Harpsichord Concerto, Siciliano, Allemande, Concerto for Oboe and Violin, Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of Fugue; GALLIANO: Aria – DGG
Galliano has added a string quartet with a bassist to his accordion interpretations of Bach classics.
Billy Childs Ensemble feat. the Ying Quartet – Autumn: In Moving Pictures (Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 2) – ArtistShare Frank Glover – Abacus – Owl Studios
Two important chamber-jazz releases.
SCHUMANN: 12 Duets for Tenor and Soprano; BEETHOVEN: 6 Lieder from Gellert; MAHLER: 3 Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone/Julia Varady, soprano/Cord Garben, piano (Schumann)/Hertha Klust, piano – Audite
One of a four-part edition dedicated to Dietrich Fischer-Diesaku, among the luminaries of vocal art for the past fifty years.
Pete Robbins – siLENT Z Live – Hate Laugh Music
siLENT Z Live offers tonal disparities, dissimilar genre elements and unexpected shifts in mood and texture.
Bob Lark and Friends – Cathy’s Song – Jazzed Media
A very classy production.
BACH: Cantatas (Complete) – Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir/ Ton Koopman, conductor/ Various soloists – Challenge boxed set of 67 CDs!
Koopman has a very valid take on this incandescent music, different from Suzuki which makes it all the more interesting.
Audio News for July 21, 2010
Blu-ray and Digital Distribution Sales Up; Naxos Now Leading Classical Record Label and Distributor; The Great Hobbyist Debate
Zap Mama – ReCreation – Heads Up
Zap Mama have brought World Music to mainstream airwaves again.
The Zeke Martin Project – U4RIA – G Funk Money Wiz
37 minutes time worth taking to listen to an excellent jazz cover album.
“MOZART in Vienna” = MOZART: Sonata No. 18 in D Major; Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397; Sonata No. 17 in B-flat Major, K. 579; Rondo in A Minor, K. 511; Ten Variations in G Major, K. 456, “Unser dummer Pöbel meint” – Gottlieb Wallisch, piano – Linn Records
Mozart in Vienna is the story of technical mastery and brilliance, as well as some humor, coexisting with and colored by a growing soberness.
Holly Hofmann & Bill Cunliffe – Three’s Company – Capri Records
Phil Woods rates Holly Hofmann, along with Hubert Laws, as the top flutists in jazz today.
David Weiss & Point of Departure – Snuck In – Sunnyside
An hour-long, swinging party with heady harmonies, striking melodies and a hint of the avant-garde.
"Two Roads to Exile” = ADOLF BUSCH: String Sextet in G Major; WALTER BRAUNFELS: String Quintet in F-sharp Minor – Marie Bérard and Benjamin Bowman, violins / Steven Dann and Carolyn Blackwell, violas / Bryan Epperson and David Hetherington, cellos – RCA
I’m not sure these works deserve a place in the repertoire, but they certainly deserve an occasional hearing in the concert hall.
PAT MUCHMORE: Fracture – “Anti Social Music” – various performers – Innova
There is a message or meaning here somewhere but I don’t get it…
Herrmann – A Concert of American Music = IVES: Symphony No. 2; BENNETT: Violin Concerto in A “in the Popular Style”; HERRMANN: Welles Raises Kane – Louis Kaufman, violin/London Symphony Orchestra/CBS Studio Orchestra/Bernard Herrmann – Pristine Audio
Bernard Herrmann acting as composer and conductor in a vivid celebration of American music.
MESSIAEN: Visions de l’Amen – Marilyn Nonken, Piano I; Sarah Rothenberg, Piano II – Bridge “Stony Brook Soundings, Volume 2” = Works of SHEILA SILVER; TYLER CAPP; PETER WINKLER; DARIA SEMEGEN; MARGARET SCHEDEL – Various performers – Bridge
Both Messiaen’s and Sheila Silver’s works for two pianos achieve many of the same bell-like sonorities through clustered chordal writing. And both owe a large debt to Asian music.
Audiophile Vinyl Reviews
11 Classical, Pop, Rock & Jazz Albums
Retta Christie with David Evans and Dave Frishberg – Retta Records Retta Christie with David Evans and Dave Frishberg, Volume 2 – Retta Records
Rich with pathos and sincerity, this songbook will set a new standard for popular music.
Curlew – A Beautiful Western Saddle/The Hardwood (2010) – (2 discs) DVD: 4:3 color, PCM Stereo – Cuneiform CD + DVD
The reissue of A Beautiful Western Saddle provides Curlew fans with lots of extra live DVD material.
* BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, ‘Romantic' (1888 version) – Minnesota Orchestra /Osmo Vänskä – BIS
******* MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH *******
Glorious Bruckner from Minnesota.
SCHUMANN: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust – Soloists/Netherlands Radio Choir/Netherlands Children’s Choir/ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Nikolaus Harnocourt – RCO Live (2)
Here is a worthy recommendation to be added to your Schumann library.
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B flat Major Op. 100 – London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent – Dual Disc from 35mm master – Everest/Classic Records
The only program Prokofiev gave the Fifth was that it was “a symphony about the spirit of man.”
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
