Monthly Archive: February 2019
Rimsky & Co Originals – Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy – Channel Classics
An exploration of Russian music, now in a setting for band… solid performance, excellent music!
Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms – Nada Loufti, piano – MEII Enterprises
A thoughtful, technically alert evening of Brahms, in Nada Loufti’s fourth release of his piano works
Jason Kao Hwang/Burning Bridge – Blood – True Sound Recordings
Jason Hwang’s latest album continues to challenge… with delights!
Franz Joseph HAYDN. Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1— Roman Rabinovich — First Hand Records
A great advent of recordings of Haydn Sonatas!
Ken Fowser – Right On Time – Posi-Tone Records
Saxophonist releases an outstanding jazz album!
Philipp Gerschlauer/David Fiuczynski: Mikrojazz!: Neue Expressionistische Musik: Rare Noise Records
Avant-gardist aces find new geometries, inscrutable lines of power, cryptic messages.
MARTINU: Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra – Matousek (vln) / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/ Hogwood – Hyperion
Outstanding performances by violinist Bohuslav Matousek of the brilliant orchestra music of Martinu.
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3 – Guerzenich Orchestra/ Francois-Xavier Roth/Sara Mingardo – Harmonia mundi
Mahler’s 3rd warmly celebrates the music and its premiere venue with authority and luminous taste
The Music Treasury For 24 February 2019 — Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Berlioz
150th Celebration of Berlioz Works!
Mordecai Shehori plays LISZT, Vol. 3 – Complete Transcendental Etudes – Cembal d’amour
Mordecai’s brilliant renderings of Liszt etudes
Jake Mason Trio – The Stranger In The Mirror – Soul Messin’ Records
Organ trio shines on their new release.
BERLIOZ: Harold in Italie; Les Nuits d’ete – Les Siecles/ Stephane Gegout/ Tabea Zimmermann/ Francois-Xavier Roth – Harmonia mundi
A breath of fresh air in these two defining works by Berlioz!
BACH: St. Mark Passion, BWV 247 – Bell’arte Salzburg/ Cantorey St. Catharinen/ Andreas Fischer – MDG
Here we go again, as the temptation for speculation is too strong.
Anna Fedorova: Four Fantasies = Piano Works by Scriabin, Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven – Channel Classics
Anna Fedorova explores the imaginative creations of four composers
David Hazeltine – The Time Is Now – Smoke Sessions Records
Three consummate professionals with an appreciation of shared striving
Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble featuring Clarence Penn – Forward
A major new talent to follow in orchestral jazz…
TCHAIKOVSKY: “Pathetique” Symphony; Francesca da Rimini – Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Serge Koussevitzky – Pristine Audio
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathetique”; Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 – Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Serge Koussevitzky – Pristine Audio PASC 550, 72:16 [www.pristineclassical.com] ****: If memory serves, Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) made only one commercial recording of the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor (1930), on shellac discs (RCA M […]
The Music Treasury for 17 February 2019
This week, The Music Treasury will spotlight the extraordinary career of Hungarian violinist Tibor Varga. His multi-faceted career includes: a concertizing soloist; a strong champion of 20th century works by Bartok, Berg, Webern, Schoenberg; founding of a music school of distinction, with a long list of stellar graduates; formation of orchestral ensembles, festivals, and violin competitions; […]
Larry GRENADIER – The Gleaners – ECM
Perhaps the finest solo bass recording produced on Manfred Eicher’s ECM label which invented the genre a generation ago.
Josh SINTON Predicate Trio: Making Bones – Iluso Records
Bristling avant-garde music with an original tonal palette by New York the reed player and his sparkling rhythm mates.
Ran Blake/Claire Ritter – Eclipse Orange – Zoning Recordings
Exciting live duel piano jazz concert celebrates Monk and all things North Carolina~
Nordic Affect: H e (a) r – Icelandic Ensemble, Contemporary Chamber Music – Sono Luminus
From Iceland — Contemporary soundscapes, best experienced on a multichannel system or headphones