Monthly Archive: January 2013
![Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass (TrackList follows] – Tara Hugo, sop./ Christian Rutledge & Trevor Gureckis, p./ Megan Gould, Luke Cissell & Claudia Chopek, violins/ Karen Waltuch, viola/ Noah Hoffeld, cello/ Logan Coale, doublebass/ Alex Sopp, flute/ Hideaki Aomari, clarinet/ Alicia Lee, bass clarinet/ Ashley Jackson, harp/ Freddie Stevenson & Danielle Schwob, guitars – Orange Mountain Music](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TaraHugoSingsGlass.jpg)
Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass (TrackList follows] – Tara Hugo, sop./ Christian Rutledge & Trevor Gureckis, p./ Megan Gould, Luke Cissell & Claudia Chopek, violins/ Karen Waltuch, viola/ Noah Hoffeld, cello/ Logan Coale, doublebass/ Alex Sopp, flute/ Hideaki Aomari, clarinet/ Alicia Lee, bass clarinet/ Ashley Jackson, harp/ Freddie Stevenson & Danielle Schwob, guitars – Orange Mountain Music
One of the best discs of the year, guaranteed to warm your heart and soothe your soul.
Audio News for January 8, 2013
Print a Kiddie LP Using a 3D Printer; New European Copyright Laws; CES and T.H.E. Shows in Las Vegas; Brian Cheney of VMPS Dies
Animals & Cannibals – 3 Leg Torso – Meester Records Dance of the Three Legged Elephants – Matthew Barley, cello; Julian Joseph, p. – Signum Classics
Two Three-Legged CDs of mostly original lighter music.
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto; C. SCHUMANN: Three Romances – Lisa Batiashvili, violin/ Alice Sara Ott, p./ Staatskapelle Dresden/ Christian Thielemann – DGG
Lovely performances of two Romantic works, large and small – but another half hour of music would be even more attractive.
“Menuhin in Moscow” = BACH: Adagio from Solo Sonata No. 1; BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 3; BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto – Yehudi Menuhin, violin/ Hephzibah Menuhin, piano/ USSR State Sym. Orch./ Evgeny Svetlanov – Melodiya
Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin scored an artistic and ‘political’ triumph in Moscow 1962, playing a combination of chamber and full concert music.
GRIEG: Music for Peer Gynt – Ilse Hollweg, sop./ Beecham Choral Society/ Royal Philharmonic Orch./ Sir Thomas Beecham (1957) – EMI/Hi-Q Records
Another exceptional xrcd24, this time from a 1957 early stereo Abbey Road master.
R. STRAUSS: Josephs-Legende Ballet Pantomime – Orch. of the Bavarian Radio Munich/ Robert Heger – Arcanta
The 1914 Joseph’s Legend Ballet-Pantomime has a classic rendition restored from the 1952 reading by Robert Heger, but be prepared to sit through it all.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA 5-Film Collection, Blu-ray (1974-2009/2012)
Really only three great films by Coppola, but the price is much better than getting them separately on Blu-ray.
LISZT: Selected Works = Two Concert Etudes; Six Consolations; Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude; Trois Liebestraume; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12; Les Cloches de Geneve; Three Petrarch Sonnets; Mephisto Waltz No. 1 – Dmitri Vorobiev, piano – Blue Griffin (2 CDs)
Vorobiev brings a natural prowess and temperament to the composer’s demands for both bravura and poetry.
MONTSALVATGE, Music for Two Pianos (Piano Music 3) – Jordi Masó, piano 1 /Miquel Villalba, piano 2 and celeste; Pia Freund, sop./ Rerran Careller and Miquel Àngel Martínez, percussion / Ensemble Barcelona 216 /Ernest Martínez Izquierdo – Naxos
Wide-ranging music from one of modern Spain’s most important composers.
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto; Grosse Fuge in B-flat Major – Wolfgang Schneiderhahn, v./ Berlin Philharmonic Orch./ Wilhelm Furtwaengler – Pristine Audio
Mark Obert-Thorn and Pristine restore one of the monumental readings of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, too long denied us Furtwaengler faithful; and the Great Fugue proves no less overwhelming.
PHILIP GLASS: Einstein on the Beach (highlights) – Philip Glass Ensemble/soloists (CD); + doc. DVD – /Chris Verges, producer – Orange Mt.
Recommended highly for fans of Philip Glass and for those who want an essential addition to 20th century music history.
Audio News for January 4, 2013
David Manley Dies; New Book on Naxos Label; ECM’s CDs Know That Ears Have Eyes
LOUIS VIERNE, Vol. 1: Symphonie No. 1 in d-Moll & No. 2 in e-Moll – Hans-Eberhard Ross, Goll-Orgel of St. Martin, Memmingen – Audite
First in a series of three volumes of all the Vierne organ symphonies in clarified sonics.
URSULA MAMLOK, Vol. 3 – Soloists/ Sonar String Q./ Ursula Holliger, harp – Bridge
Volume 3 of Bridge’s ongoing series displays the same high standards as before.
HANDEL: Messiah – Karina Gauvin, sop./ Robin Blaze, countertenor/ Rufus Müller, tenor/ Brett Polegato, bar./ Tafelmusik Baroque Orch. and Ch. Choir/ Ivars Taurins – Tafelmusik (2 CDs)
Ho hum Handel? Not now, not hardly…
Ute Lemper – Paris Days, Berlin Nights – with the Vogler String Quartet & Stefan Malzew – Steinway & Sons
A wonderful program and arrangements, but Lemper is just a bit over the top for my taste.
“Eternal Echoes – Songs and Dances for the Soul” – Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, tenor/ Itzhak Perlman, v./ch. orch. and klezmer ens./Russell Ger – Sony Classical
A beautiful array of traditional Jewish music that ought to appeal to all.
“Meanwhile” = MISSY MAZZOLI: Still Life with Avalanche; PHILIPPE HUREL: a mesure; ROSHANNE ETEZADY: from Damaged Goods; STEPHEN HARTKE: Meanwhile: music to imaginary puppet plays; PHILIP GLASS: Music in Similar Motion; THOMAS ADES: Catch – eighth blackbird – Cedille BENJAMIN BROENING: “Trembling Air” = like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment; Dark Wood; Traces (i); Nocturne/Doubles; Traces (ii); Arioso/Doubles; Changing Light – eighth blackbird – Bridge
Two great discs, six amazing musicians, seven interesting composers – eighth blackbird does it again!
Joy Road: The Complete Works of Pepper Adams, Vol. 5 – I Carry Your Heart – Alexis Cole Sings Pepper Adams – Motema
Vocals on Pepper Adams tunes.
DAVID MASLANKA: Symphony No. 9 – Illinois State U. Wind Sym./ Stephen E. Steele – Albany
One of Maslanka’s six impressive symphonies.
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2; Piano Quintet – Christoph Stradner, cello, Doris Adam & Luca Monti, p. & EOS-Quartett Vienna – Neos
Recommended for those who wish for a gloomy day.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
