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Nick Peros, the Canadian composer who I had the pleasure of interviewing a few issues back ( Fanfare 35:5), wanted to state his case for his...
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 Given that Osias Wilenski is not exactly a household name—yet!—to the readers of this publication, I’ll introduce him briefly with some biographical details of his interesting...
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 The name Colin Maier may ring a bell for some. He is currently the oboist for the internationally renowned and critically acclaimed ensemble Quartetto Gelato. Born...
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 This is one of those strange CDs that draw you in due to odd cover art and unusual programming but give you zero indication as to...
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 So there I was in a Tim Horton’s in Calgary, having a coffee and a moose bacon sandwich with my friends Remy and Gordon. Who should...
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 I fell in love with Hristo Kazakov’s playing after hearing his recording of the Goldberg Variations , so when the editor asked me if I was...
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 Without going to the trouble of actually documenting the statistics, I think it would be safe to say that this music is as oft recorded, especially...
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 Justin Henry Rubin is an American composer who was born in New York City in 1971. He specializes in chamber music, and his second CD on...
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 An accomplished keyboard artist, Justin Rubin started his professional work as an organist and choir director in his native New York, where he began composing for...
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 Rubin’s first Innova CD was recorded in the fall of 2008, and released the following year. All of the works were composed between 2005 and 2008,...
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 Music Director David Bernard founded New York City’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in 1999 and has since built a thriving ensemble that has not only performed...
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 Park Avenue Chamber Symphony recordings are available to download at iTunes, Amazon, and ClassicsOnline, and to stream at Naxos Music Library, Spotify, and Rhapsody. Back in...
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 As with the above Mendelssohn and Schubert coupling, we have on this recording two of Richard Strauss’s beloved tone poems that are often found sharing a...
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 When one thinks of interpretations of Richard Strauss’s tone poems, one thinks of super-virtuoso conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, George Szell, and Fritz Reiner—and their...
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 Great Mahler can come from places off the beaten track. The best live Mahler First I ever heard was by Yoav Talmi and the Waterloo Festival...
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 During the 1887-1888 season when Gustav Mahler was the second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, he began to write his Symphony No. 1 in D Major....
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Ensemble Gaudior is one of the latest early music groups to venture forth with an initial outing on their own label. Formed in Washington, D.C., over...
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Independently issued CD, available at CD Baby, CD Universe, and Ensemble Gaudior’s website. This is a fine CD of music by six noted Baroque composers played...
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Independently issued CD, available at CD Baby, CD Universe, and Ensemble Gaudior’s website. This new recording was made to exhibit the glories of the St. Luke...
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 It’s not easy to keep up with Rachel Barton Pine. We all know that she is world famous for solo performances with major orchestras. Her numerous...
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 This is my third visit with Luisa Guembes-Buchanan, a fascinating woman and pianist who is exploring Beethoven’s keyboard works in her own time and her own...
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 This self-published disc, decorated with meticulous, surrealistic pen and ink drawings, could be easily overlooked, but is enjoyable and distinctive. Luisa Guembes-Buchanan, a Peruvian-born musicologist, concert...
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Free to download at luisagbuchanan.bandcamp.com/album/john-cage-remembered Up to this point in time, Peruvian-born pianist Luisa Guembes-Buchanan has been represented in Fanfare primarily for her scholarly—and perhaps somewhat...
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 Ethan Sperry is director of choral activities at Portland State University, where he conducts the school’s world-renowned Chamber Choir and the new ensembles: Man Choir and...
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 The Portland State Chamber Choir serves as an ambassador of the Portland State University Music Department, both locally to the Portland, Oregon, arts community and to...
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 Paul Chihara is a rare bird indeed: a composer who is equally respected in the concert and film worlds, and highly sought after in each. Even...
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 Luiz de Moura Castro is a Brazilian-born pianist who received his training at the National School of Music, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (summa...
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 As a student, pianist Renée Reznek probably never dreamt that, some day, composers would be writing music specifically for her to play in concert. And yet...
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 Available at CD Baby, CD Universe, and Amazon as audio CD or download. Reznek, a South African pianist, has here issued her first (so far as...
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 Available at CD Baby, CD Universe, and Amazon as audio CD or download. This London based, South African native plays with no little skill and insight,...
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 Available at CD Baby, CD Universe, and Amazon as audio CD or download. Pianist Renée Reznek is a new name to me and given the somewhat...
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 Josef Heinzer and his life partner, Doris Maria Sigrist, live in Lenggenwil, a country village situated some 12.5 kilometers west of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Huge trees...
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 Given that the name Josef Peter Heinzer is, as far as I can determine, new to the pages of Fanfare, some biographical information is undoubtedly called...
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 In 1935, Josef Peter Heinzer was born to a cabinetmaker and his wife in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland. Growing up, the young man studied cabinet making...
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 In late December 2012, I spoke with violinist and composer Buckley Mills, who was at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. He said it was only about...
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 When I interviewed Maureen Gregory, she was at her home in Rhinebeck, New York, a beautiful small town in the Hudson River Valley that has attracted...
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Through e-mail, I conducted an interview with Richard Caniell, the force behind the Immortal Performances label, which has been responsible for some remarkably good transfers of...
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