Monthly Archive: January 2013
“Dimensions – Works for String Orchestra” = GREGORY HUTTER: Deploration; LOUIS BABIN: Couleurs, La Suite du Promeneur; REYNARD BURNS: Revolutions; ANDREW MARCH: Sanguis Venenatus; CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Maid with the Flaxen Hair; RUDY KRONFUSS: River of Time; DANIEL BURNWASSER: Flux – Czech Philharmonic Orch./Robert Ian Winstin, cond./ Moravian Philharmonic Orch./Petr Vronsky, cond./ Gabriela Kummerova, Fr. horn/ Slovak Radio Sym./Kirk Trevor, cond./ Richard Stolzman, clarinet/ Concordia Orch./Marin Alsop – Navona
Very rewarding collections of new string works.
“Chalumeaux: CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER: Concertos, Overtures & Sonatas” – Ars Antiqua Austria/ Gunar Letzbor, violin and dir. – Challenge Classics
Graupner is finally getting his due; this disc should help make him better known to music lovers.
Roomful of Teeth = Passacaglia; Amid The Minotaurs; Montmartre; No; Courante; Aeiou; The Orchard; Cesca’s View; Allemande; Quizassa; Sarabande; Run Away; Ansa Ya – New Amsterdam
A stunning vocal disc that enlarges what we normally think of as human vocal capabilities.
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GEORGY CATOIRE: Piano Concerto; PERCY SHERWOOD: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major – Hiroaki Takenouchi, p./ Royal Scottish Nat. Orch./ Martin Yates – Dutton Epoch
Romanticism served two ways—an enjoyable stroll far off the beaten path.
PHILIP GLASS: Piano music arranged for concert harp = Opening from “Glassworks;” Metamorphosis; Sel. from “The Hours” – Lavinia Meijer, harp – Channel Classics
An enjoyable multichannel recording of some of Glass’ solo piano music which to me sounds even better on the harp.
Editorial for January 2013
A stunning updated three-volume set of the complete Beethoven Symphonies conducted by Otto Klemperer in stereo will soon be part of the libraries of five readers thruout the world who register using our simple form this month. The winners will be emailed a code for the Pristine Audio site, where they can select whether they will be sent free CD-Rs, or would rather download 24-bit or 16-bit FLAC audio files, or even MP3 files. The early stereo sound of the Philharmonia Orchestra has been transferred to this century with astounding effect. The five lucky winners will be listed here in early February. Here are the three winners of the 20-CD set from EMI, Imaginary Landscapes – Sounds of America, our December drawing. Congratulations! = Richard Lovison, Becket MA; Thomas D. Stover, Middletown VA; Marshall Dean, Indianapolis IN. [audaud-hr] EDITORIAL AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began in 1985 as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, which aired for 13 1/2 years on up to 200 public radio and commercial stations coast to coast. In September 1998 its web site for programming information was expanded to the present Internet publication. January 2013 is our 166th issue, and features improved navigation and appearance […]
BACH: Johannes-Passion (St. John Passion) – Soloists /La Petite Bande /Sigiswald Kuijken – Challenge Classics (2 discs)
Even in a very crowded field, Kuijken’s Saint John Passion is a standout.
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 in E – BBC Scottish Sym. Orch./ Donald Runnicles – Hyperion
Well considered, well performed, and very well done.



