Grammy Archive
Passionate Diversions = ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: Quintet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass and Piano; Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello; Septet for Piano Trio and String Quartet – Azica
Three attractive chamber music works superbly performed by one of America’s most honored and prolific composers.
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Vijay Iyer – Mutations [TrackList follows] – ECM
Pianist Vijay Iyer implements an ambient, explorative concentration on his latest work.
CLARE FISCHER: After the Rain – Suite for Cello and String Orchestra; Time Piece; Bachludes I & II – Cecilia Tsan, cello/ Concertmasters: Assa Drori and Gerald Vinci – Clare Fisher Productions
Emotional music from a composer who made contributions in almost every musical form.
“Miraculous Metamorphoses” = HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis; PROKOFIEV: The Love for Three Oranges Suite; BARTOK: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite – Kansas City Sym./ Michael Stern – Reference Recordings
This is a fine trio of modern masterpieces; Bartok described his work as “hellish.”
The 2014 Portland Jazz Festival
11 days of amazing live jazz preserving the legacy and future of jazz in Portland OR
* Hymn to the Virgin – Schola Cantorum/ Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray
************ MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH *************
This release is unbelievably spectacular in any category you care to name.
Home Page for February 2014
Our drawing for February is for six of the new audiophile vinyl pressings of jazz vocalist Gregory Porter’s 2010 album Water. (His new album Liquid Spirit just won the GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year.) The 11 songs are based on themes of love and protest. He’s been said to be stylistically similar […]
Editorial for February 2014
Motema has donated six copies of their GRAMMY-nominated 2010 album Water, by Gregory Porter to go to six lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who register on our simple form this February. Jazz Wise said Porter had “outstanding original songs, erudite lyrics and social comment, top drawer musicianship and improvisation, and a voice to die for.” Porter […]
Wild Beauty Sonata Suite – The Brussels Jazz Orchestra, featuring Joe Lovano – Half Note
An artist of revelation and confidence.
Spyro Gyra – The Rhinebeck Sessions – Crosseyed Bear
Jazz band delivers…even after four decades!
“Winter Songs and other vocal works” = ROBERT PATERSON: Captcha; Winter Songs; Eating Variations; Thursday; Batter’s Box – Jesse Blumberg, bar./ Blair McMillen, p./ David Neal, bass-bar./ Robert Gardner, bar./ Nancy Allen Lundy, sop./ Dimitri Pittas, tenor/ American Modern Ensemble – American Modern Recordings
Subtle and intricate musical settings that truly define the words “art songs”.
Bob Dylan – The Complete Album Collection, Vol. 1 – Columbia/Sony Legacy 1962-2012 – 43 album titles comprising 35 studio albums, 6 live albums, and 2 CD “Side Tracks”
Chronicling the development of an American musical genius….
BARTOK & KODALY: The Complete String Quartets – Alexander String Q. – Foghorn Classics (3 CDs)
This is an essential recording, maybe the best ever of these important works.
ELGAR: The Enigma Variations; Fantasia on Greensleeves; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps – Aristophanic Suite – Kansas City Sym./ Michael Stern – Reference Recordings 45 rpm (2 vinyls)
The latest in 45 rpm vinyl and both a musical and technological winner.
“Guilty Pleasures” – Rene Fleming, soprano/ Philharmonia Orch./ Sebastian Lang-Lessing – Decca
Another Grammy possibility? Sure sounds that way…
VERDI: Requiem – Anja Harteros, sop./ Elina Garanca, mezzo-sop./ Jonas Haufmann, tenor/ Rene Pape, bass/ Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala/ Daniel Barenboim – Decca (2 CDs)
Barenboim comes close—really close—to giving us the ideal Requiem.
GIL EVANS (Originals & arrangements): Sketches of Spain – Nicholas Payton, trumpet – BMF Records
This latest re-performance of the classic Sketches of Spain has re-thought some of the original.
“Toccatas” – Modern American Music for Harpsichord – Works of MEL POWELL, HENRY COWELL, NED ROREM, SAMUEL ADLER, ROBERT MUCZYNSKI, THOMAS BENJAMIN, ROBERT MOEVES, STEPHEN BLUMBERG, PATRICIA MOREHEAD & HAROLD MELTZER – Jory Vinikour, harpsichord – Sono Luminus (Pure Audio Blu-ray+CD)
Hi-res program of contemporary works for harpsichord.
Van Morrison – Moondance (Deluxe Edition) – Warner Brothers/Rhino R2 536560 – (4 CDs+1 Pure Audio Blu-ray)
A unique opportunity to witness the making of Moondance in detail…
RODGERS: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; Victory at Sea—Symphonic Scenario; The March of the Siamese Children; The Carousel Waltz; South Pacific—Symphonic Suite – NY Philharmonic/ Richard Rodgers/ Philadelphia Pops Orch./ Andre Kostelanetz/ Pittsburgh Sym. Orch./ Fritz Reiner – Pristine Audio
An assemblage of suites and incidental music from his musical shows, television, and films, this collection of Richard Rodgers reminds us of his peerless mastery in his chosen medium.
Jane Ira Bloom, sop. sax – Sixteen Sunsets – Pure Audio Records
An excellent and unusual approach to jazz ballads in hi-res surround sound.
Fred Hersch And Julian Lage – Free Flying – Palmetto Records
The interplay of two very gifted jazz musicians.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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