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MOZART: Piano Con. K.413-415 – Bezuidenhout, fortepiano/ Freiberger Baroque Orch./ HM

MOZART: Piano Con. K.413-415 – Bezuidenhout, fortepiano/ Freiberger Baroque Orch./ HM

MOZART: Piano Concertos K. 413, 414 & 415 – Kristian Bezuidenhout/ Freiburger Barockorchestra – Harmonia mundi 902218, 69:31 (9/16/16) ****: (Kristian Bezuidenhout; fortepiano/ Gottfriend von der Goltz, violin and director) Three bonhomous concertos which represent Mozart’s bid to win over the Vienna audience, played on period instruments. The three concertos under review here, K. 413-415, […]

MICHAEL DAUGHERTY: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle – Zuill Bailey, cello/Paul Jacobs, organ/Nashville Sym. /Giancarlo Guerrero – Naxos

MICHAEL DAUGHERTY: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle – Zuill Bailey, cello/Paul Jacobs, organ/Nashville Sym. /Giancarlo Guerrero – Naxos

Some of Daugherty’s finest music to date in bold, innovative scenarios. MICHAEL DAUGHERTY: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle – Zuill Bailey, cello/Paul Jacobs, organ/Nashville Sym./Giancarlo Guerrero – Naxos American Classics 8.559798, 77:43 (9/09/16) ****: I don’t even know where to begin in discussing this latest release from Michael Daugherty except to […]

W.H. Squire (cello) in Chamber Music of BRAHMS, DVORAK, TCHAIKOVSKY, HARTY, DUNKLER – Pristine Audio

W.H. Squire (cello) in Chamber Music of BRAHMS, DVORAK, TCHAIKOVSKY, HARTY, DUNKLER – Pristine Audio

Cello virtuoso W.H. Squire has potent representation in chamber works from the acoustic and early electric sound era. W.H. Squire in Chamber Music = BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in a minor, Op. 114 (acoustic recording); TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Trio in a minor, Op. 50;  DVORAK (arr. Gruenfeld): Songs my mother taught me; HARTY: Scherzo, Op. 8; HURE: […]

“Fantasias & Fugues: Music for Harp” = BACH: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903; ELIAS PARISH-ALVARS: Grande Fantasie et Variations de Bravoure sur des Motifs Italiens, Op. 57; MICHAEL KIMBRELL: Ballade Arctique; TURINA: Tocata y Fuga-Ciclo Pianistico I, Op. 50; HENRIETTE RENIE: Legende d’Apres Les Elfes de Leconte de Lisle – Katrina Szederkenyi, harp – MSR

“Fantasias & Fugues: Music for Harp” = BACH: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903; ELIAS PARISH-ALVARS: Grande Fantasie et Variations de Bravoure sur des Motifs Italiens, Op. 57; MICHAEL KIMBRELL: Ballade Arctique; TURINA: Tocata y Fuga-Ciclo Pianistico I, Op. 50; HENRIETTE RENIE: Legende d’Apres Les Elfes de Leconte de Lisle – Katrina Szederkenyi, harp – MSR

Young though she is, Katrina Szederkenyi goes from strength to strength in her second outing.