|
|
|
|
 The two in-concert performances documented on this CD were recorded 14 and 15 years earlier than the 2011 all-Medtner disc, reviewed above. The question has been...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 “I started composing in 11th grade simply to create pieces that I wanted to play that didn’t exist yet, or that I wanted to hear others...
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Daniel Dorff’s music, we learn in the liner notes, has been commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra’s education department as well as by the Minnesota Orchestra’s Kinder...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The two CDs in hand have served to introduce me to the delightful music of Daniel Dorff, whose playful, winsome music should find a wide receptive...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Music for children has become an important niche in Daniel Dorff’s output. It is a tricky genre. Britten and Prokofiev managed to create music for young...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 On March 5, 2012, violinist Elmar Oliveira performed Schumann’s Violin Concerto with the Atlantic Classical Orchestra under the direction of conductor Stewart Robertson. That performance, which...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This CD is well positioned to supplement the collection of someone who already has much of the “standard” Schumann orchestral music—the symphonies, the piano and cello...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Although Alexander Kobrin has won numerous international competitions over the years—the Busoni, Hamamatsu, and Glasgow, among them—it was perhaps his victory at the 12th Van Cliburn...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alexander Kobrin is the Van Cliburn prizewinner whose recording of Haydn sonatas I praise below. Here he is playing Brahms live in concerts recorded in Kansas...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alexander Kobrin’s multiple piano successes have enabled him to establish a firm career. His Haydn disc (reviewed below) is largely successful; this Brahms disc even more...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 This is an often delightful release, pleasingly and realistically recorded. Liner notes are short, but to the point and informative. The four sonatas are carefully chosen,...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My favorite recordings of Haydn piano sonatas include those by Richter, by the very different Gilbert Kalish, and the single disc by Emmanuel Ax. All three...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Fanfare readers have already met Keith Kramer in an excellent interview by colleague William Zagorski in 35:4, so I’ll attempt not to rehash any of the...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Violinist Barbara Govatos and pianist Marcantonio Barone, who first met as co-competitors in a concerto competition in Philadelphia as teenagers, embarked upon entirely different careers thereafter...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Barbara Govatos plays with the Philadelphia Orchestra: This is the first recording of hers I can find a trace of. It’s an impressive set that will...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Barbara Govatos and Marcantonio Barone enliven their complete set of Ludwig van Beethoven’s violin sonatas with an attention to minute detail that nevertheless doesn’t lose sight...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 David Ward-Steinman has been a presence on the classical music scene at least since the early 1960s. I remember encountering a Contemporary Composers Guild LP of...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Composer David Ward-Steinman is adjunct professor of music at Indiana University. He is also professor emeritus at San Diego State University in California. He wrote
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 In Fanfare 34:3, I interviewed Rebecca Pechefsky on the occasion of her release of no less than four titles on the Quill Classics label: Book I...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rebecca Pechefsky included Krebs’s Partita in A Minor in a previous release on Quill Classics 1006. It was part of a collection of six undated works,...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Johann Sebastian Bach once said of his favorite pupil that “there is only one crawdad in my brook” (and you have to know German to understand...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 The first English Music Festival, the brainchild of a petite blonde powerhouse by the name of Em Marshall, took place in the Oxfordshire village of Dorchester-on-Thames...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Here is a real treat for those who love the music of the early 20th-century English romantics and pastoralists. But these four discs—three from EM Records...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 John Pickard (b. 1963) is quite a new name to me, as I suspect he is for most readers of this magazine. He has had a...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Choral conductor Robert Simpson received his initial training at Brown University, where he graduated with honors, and then went on to graduate studies at Union Theological...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The name Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695) ought to be well known but isn’t. Born in Bologna, he traveled to Rome to complete his musical education under...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Some years ago this chorus gave us a most entertaining program of Russian choral music and now they are back with the Vespers music of a...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Despite his eminence during his own lifetime, Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637–1695) is a virtually forgotten figure today. In his youth he took organ lessons with Agostino...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Formed in 1992, the Arianna Quartet gained national attention by winning the Grand Prize in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and First Prize in both the...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Recently I had a chance to chat by telephone with Stephen Cleobury, director of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Q: It’s a great honor to...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In American football there’s a penalty for “Piling On.” Rugby, to the best of my knowledge, has no such sanction, which, I suppose, is a great...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A book review of The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols ( Fanfare 29:1) described an attached CD drawn from an EMI recording of 1999, recorded...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 The first disc, an SACD, offers the complete Süssmayr completion of the Requiem (the version traditionally sung) followed by five excerpts as realized by Richard Maunder;...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
If invention’s mother is necessity, how is it related to curiosity? Is curiosity its favorite auntie or its evil stepmother? When Constanze Mozart turned to Franz...
|
|
|
|
|
|
