Hagen Archive

“Soft Blink of Amber Light” – variety of new composers = MSR Classics
Worthy music worthily captured by the excellent Houstonites.

“Spring Sounds, Spring Seas” = JAMES NYORAKU SCHLEFER: Haru No Umi Redux; Shakuhachi Concerto; DARON HAGEN: Koto Concerto: Genji – James N. Schlefer, shakuhachi/ Yumi Kurosawa, 20-string koto/ Orch. of the Swan/ Kenneth Woods & David Curtis – MSR Classics
Some of the most attractive East-meets-West musical exercises that I’ve heard on disc.

“Change Is Gonna Come” = Works of HAGEN, BACH, SOR, MAW, WENNAKOSKI; DOWLAND – Kumela, guitar – Alba BACH Organ Arrangements – Hansjorg Albrecht, organ – Oehms
Two recordings that demonstrate the good, the bad, and the so what? of transcriptions. Both are entertaining.