Monthly Archive: May 2014
Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Boy Named Charlie Brown – Fantasy Records/ Concord Music
A terrific bit of jazzy music for animation which stands well on its own.
PIERNE: Piano Quintet in E Minor; VIERNE: String Quartet in D Minor – Piers Lane, piano/ Goldner String Q. – Hyperion
Late French Romantics Pierne and Vierne in their chamber music idiom; only the Pierne compels our sustained interest despite exemplary performances.
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Vijay Iyer – Mutations [TrackList follows] – ECM
Pianist Vijay Iyer implements an ambient, explorative concentration on his latest work.
Sonny Rollins – Road Shows, Vol. 3 – Doxy/OKeh
Traveling with Sonny…
Phoebe Snow – S/T – Capitol Records/Analogue Productions
Phoebe Snow’s first album in pristine SACD stereo acoustics…
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PJ Rasmussen – Another Adventure [TrackList follows] – Third Freedom Music
A jazz journey which jumps or glides but never jostles or jolts.
A Tribute to Erling Bloendal Bengtsson, Vol. 3 = KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No. 1; MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata No. 2; JOLIVET: Suite en concert pour violoncello – Erling Bloendal Bengtsson, cello/ Anker Blyme, piano/ Iceland Sym. Orch. / Jean-Pierre Jacquillat – Danacord
From Icelandic Radio tapes issued for the first time, we have more evidence of the broad range and sterling musicianship of cello wizard Erling Bloendal Bengtsson.
Eric Alexander – Chicago Fire – High Note
Keeping the flame lit…
Some great jazz from a B-3 quartet.
Mike LeDonne – I Love Music – Savant Recordings SCD 2135, 53:38 [5/11/14] ****1/2: (Mike Ledonne – B-3 organ; Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone; Peter Bernstein – guitar; Joe Farnsworth – drums) Like many jazz organists, Mike Ledonne started out on piano. Growing up around the family music store where his father Micki played jazz guitar, his path to music was inevitable. After graduating from The New England Conservatory, he moved to New York and became a fixture in jazz circles. Earlier in his career, he established himself as a sought-after pianist, playing with Benny Goodman, the Art-Farmer-Clifford Jordan Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine and Sonny Rollins. His eleven-year association with Milt Jackson and three recording projects with Benny Golson solidified his prominence as a sideman. But it was his transition to Hammond B-3 that launched his bandleader ascension. The Groover Quartet (with Eric Alexander/tenor saxophone; Peter Bernstein/guitar and Joe Farnsworth (drums) continue to be a must-see act appearing nearly every Tuesday night at New York’s esteemed club, Smoke, for over a decade. Their debut, The Groover (2010) reached the tip slot on the jazz charts for 14 weeks. The follow-up, Keep The Faith also garnered critical and commercial acclaim. […]
Audio News for May 13, 2014
Daniel Barenboim Launches New Download-Only Label; CEA Study reveals Smartphone Ownership Surpasses Basic Cell Phones; New Mark Levinson Integrated Amp at Munich High End Show; Sony Formally Releases UHD TV Pricing
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Howard McGhee – West Coast 1945-1947 [TrackList follows] – Uptown Records
Howard McGhee was an appealing, fervent, and bracing trumpeter all of which is shown on these sessions.
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J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concertos (6) [TrackList follows] – Freiburger Barockorchester – Harmonia mundi (2 CDs)
The musicianship on this recording is of the very highest order, and every second was an absolute delight to experience.
BARTOK: Ferenc Fricsay Conducts the Masterpieces of Bartok – Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 25 May, 1952 – Reconstitution of the Concerto – Praga Digitals
This new release from Praga Digitals is another in the Reminiscences series of archival recordings re-mastered with the latest technology.
Dave Stryker – Eight Track – Strikezone
Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday all rolled into one soulful salute to the seventies.
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C Major; Symphony No. 3, (Eroica) – Philharmonic-Sym. of New York/ Willem Mengelberg – Pristine Audio
Historic 1930 readings of Beethoven from New York grant an epic breadth to scores Mengelberg leads in the grand Romantic tradition.
LARCHER: Smart Dust; Poems; What Becomes; A Padmore Cycle – Tamara Stefanovich, piano/ Mark Padmore, tenor/ Thomas Larcher, p, – Harmonia mundi
Interesting stuff for the curious and adventurous, well-crafted for the most part and done with panache.
BRAHMS: Viola Sonatas, in f; in E-flat; Trio in a – Geraldine Walther, viola/ David Korevaar, p./ Andras Fejer, cello – MSR Classics
These are great recordings, and if you don’t own them in this form, you are now required to acquire them!
The Art of Melancholy – Songs by JOHN DOWLAND – Iestyn Davies, countertenor/ Thomas Dunford, lute – Hyperion
A marvelous collection that works well thematically, but you really have to like the countertenor voice to be fully immersed.
MARIE NELSON BENNETT: Orpheus Lex (complete opera) – David Arnold (Orpheus), bar./ Wendy Baker (Eurydice) / Nathan Bahny, narrator/ New Your Virtuoso Singers/ The Artemis Ch. Ens./ Harold Rosenbaum – Ravello
Orpheus in Idaho? The universality remains.
RACHMANINOV: Songs – Evelina Dobraceva & Ekaterina Siurina, sop./ Justina Gringyte, mezzo-sop./ Daniil Shtoda, tenor/ Andrei Bondarenko, bar./ Rodion Pogossov, bar./ Alexander Vinogradov, bass/ Iain Burnside, p. 8 – Delphian (3 CDs)
A gorgeous collection of nearly all of the composer’s songs rendered with clarity and fervent beauty.
Fantasies = SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C Major; BRUCKNER: Fantasie in G Major; ZEMLINSKY: Fantasien ueber Gedichte von Richard Dehmel; BRAHMS: Fantasien – Stanislav Khristenko, p. – Steinway & Sons
This “Fantasies” collection confirms Khristenko’s status as a firebrand Romantic pianist of the first order.
COPLAND: Short Portrait – Orchestral and solo bar. works including Piano Concerto; El Salon Mexico; Appalachian Spring; Old American Songs – Stereo-only SACD Praga Digitals
Well-recorded and performed gems from the archive from Praga Digitals.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
