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 Michael Colina’s latest CD of orchestral works—an unquestionably important release—has provided an apt occasion to engage him in further comments about his musical outlook and career....
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Michael Dalmau Colina, born in 1948, had a distinguished career as a jazz and popular performer, composer, arranger, engineer, and producer before turning to classical composition...
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This CD, entitled Baba Yaga, presents four works by Michael Colina, a composer formerly unknown to me. Aside from his classical training, Colina (according to the...
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My colleague David Deboor Canfield gave a broad introduction to North Carolina-born composer Michael Dalmau Colina in Fanfare 35:2. Colina is a producer, engineer, writer, and...
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 Time flies. It seems that only yesterday I was speaking with pianist Rosa Antonelli about her forthcoming Carnegie Hall debut ( Fanfare 35: 1). Today, that...
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Argentine-American pianist Rosa Antonelli gives an attractive recital of mixed Spanish and Latin American fare under the collective title Remembranza: Remembrance of Latin Sounds , although...
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Although her recordings were previously reviewed in Fanfare , pianist Rosa Antonelli is a new name to me. According to the biographical notes included in the...
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 Pianist/composer Steven Spooner’s insatiable musical appetite has led him to perform his own version of the repertoire-spanning concerts pioneered by Anton Rubinstein in 1885. Given over...
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I have said many times in these pages that the great majority of young classical musicians who win prizes at prestigious competitions and are described by...
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Pianist Steven Spooner was not previously known to me prior to my receiving these two CDs and one DVD. Thus, given the CD titles and label,...
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When the editor asked me if I was available to review two discs titled “Historical Piano Series,” I enthusiastically accepted the assignment. I did so because,...
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This is a video of a concert Spooner gave at the Lied Center in Lawrence, Kansas. It’s pretty much just him and the piano as seen...
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Like Volume 5 of the Historical Piano Recital Series , this DVD is, with but one notable exception, devoted entirely to the music of Liszt, and...
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 In November 2012, Meisha Adderley released a new recording on the Albany label, featuring music for piano duo written by four Afro-American composers, one of whom...
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This delightful duo sets a lovely spirit for this recital with their sweet and easy rendition of Dolores White’s luscious 1996 arrangement of the spiritual
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In my interview with pianist Meisha Adderley, I learned that this recording, which bears the most inconspicuous title “Piano Duo Project,” is a labor of love...
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 You know you have talent to burn, when you intend just to major in the flute, but instead (out of the blue) John Adams recommends you...
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This disc presents three works by Laura Elise Schwendinger (b. 1962), whose music has won the American Academy of the Berlin Prize Fellowship. The opening work,...
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Laura Elise Schwendinger (b. 1962) may be a new name to you, as it was to me. Having studied with Andrew Imbrie and Olly Wilson at...
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 The Stradivarius label has released a first volume CD (STR 33853), containing six of the op. 4 Sonate a violino e basso (all in major keys;...
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As with Handel, Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) might as well be seen as an English composer, having emigrated thither in 1714 and spent most of the rest...
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There can be no doubt that Francesco Geminiani was one of the foremost Italian violinists of his day Not only did he study under some of...
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 Kimberly Marshall is a very active concert organist, teacher, and scholar. She is a faculty member at Arizona State University and previously taught at the Royal...
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This CD, titled Bach Encounters Buxtehude, features works by both composers, which illustrate the influence that the older composer had on the younger. I’m rather surprised...
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 A Fantasy through Time is a concept album, devoted entirely to works named “fantasy” by their composers. They range from a piece from the Mulliner Book...
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 In 1512 there appeared the first volume of printed organ music: the Tabulatur etlicher Lobgesang und lidlein (Tablature of Some Hymns of Praise and Little Songs)...
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 By way of introduction, a few words about the Trio Bamberg, an ensemble quite active in Europe, Japan, and South America, but not yet widely known...
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As the long timing of this CD illustrates, these are very slow performances of Schubert’s trio masterpieces, but the slowness of tempo is really the only...
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These are lively, brightly lit renditions of these much loved trios. Trio Bamberg consists of three mature European orchestral and solo players, and not surprisingly, they...
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The Bamberg Trio provides a knowing overview of the large-scale structures of these two expansive piano trios. They excel, in particular, at shaping and pacing the...
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 The opening question was innocent enough. Joseph Summer’s settings of the works of William Shakespeare, a significant part of his oeuvre and the majority of the...
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There are possibly too many titles on this very summery disc; Shall I compare Thee to a summer’s Day-The Oxford Songs of Joseph Summer-The Shakespeare Concerts....
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 Joseph Summer, who was born in 1956, is a prolific American composer who started out playing the French horn. He also studied composition with Czech-born Karel...
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 My first in-person encounter with flute virtuoso Robert Stallman occurred back in 1998 in preparation for a feature article titled Piper Unlimited which ran in
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It wasn’t that long ago—in 35:4, to be exact, that I reviewed a release of Bach’s flute sonatas performed by Elizabeth Walker, Michael Overbury, and Christopher...
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 Composer Fredrik Hagstedt lives with his wife, Joanna, and son, Gustav, in an apartment close to the sea in Gothenburg, Sweden. He loves the area because...
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Here is music that is tonal, fragmented, complete, fascinating, moving, and complex. It is music that sounds like bits and pieces of other composers you’ve heard,...
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When asked if I’d be interested in reviewing this CD, the first thing I did was to Google the composer, Fredrik Hagstedt. It was a bit...
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Despite the crude cultural stereotyping we’ve heard over the past few years about “European-Style socialism,” and particularly the Nordic variety, it appears to me that few...
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 Arnold Rosner is one of the most unusual and fascinating American composers of his generation. Born in New York City in 1945, to a culturally unsophisticated...
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This is a broad cross-section of the solo piano music of American composer Arnold Rosner, beginning with music he wrote as a teenager in the early...
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Born in New York City in 1945, the prolific Arnold Rosner can lay claim to two operas, six symphonies, six string quartets, and numerous other works...
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 Soprano Elizabeth Farnum and pianist Margaret Kampmeier start off this recorded concert with Arnold Rosner’s Psalm XXIII , performed with a quiet calmness. Unfortunately, Farnum has...
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