|
|
|
|
 As far as I can tell, this is the first baritone saxophone recital disc reviewed in Fanfare . At least, there is no other in the...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 There is only one work on this delicious program that was originally for bassoon, the Telemann Sonata in F Minor, taken from his collection The Faithful...
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
What’s that you say? You’re not familiar with Bach’s two bassoon sonatas? There’s a reason for that. They are transcriptions of sonatas originally written for flute,...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 She has been called “America’s leading lady of the bassoon.” Judith LeClair, as many will know, has been the principal bassoonist of the New York Philharmonic...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Here is a collection of works for cello and piano both familiar and unfamiliar. Among the familiar are Fauré’s popular Élégie —albeit better known in its...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Taiwanese-Swiss cellist Wen-Sinn Yang was born in Bern and is currently the principal cellist of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. With more than 20 recordings to his...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 This is really two recitals folded into one, alternating generally well-known works for clarinet and piano with unaccompanied ones, of which only the paradigmatic Stravinsky set...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 This is a convenient recital, presenting—unusually, it turns out, in a single program—the clarinet-and-piano works of Debussy and his contemporary Florent Schmitt, plus those of the...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This disc is likely to find a place only on clarinetists’ shelves, given its nearly exclusive instrumentation of solo clarinet. This would be a pity, since...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is a good issue for avant-garde clarinet recitals. Elsewhere in these pages I review a disc called Necessity by Argentinean composer-performer Jorge Variego, and now...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Jorge Variego is a young clarinetist and composer from Argentina, working his way through American academia as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida. It’s...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clarinetist Jorge Variego was born in Argentina in 1975, and, after undergraduate studies in that country, completed his master’s at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, he is...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 I was sorely tempted to dismiss this album without hearing it; looking at the contents it was obvious that this is an easy-listening sort of recording,...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Because I gave such a positive review to Jennifer Hoult’s marvelous CD (see elsewhere in this issue), I was asked to audition this disc by Italian...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Cameron Carpenter, an organist to whom I was introduced by the present recital, is a unique personality, and, at least from what I have witnessed by...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 As somebody who spends much of his life involved with contemporary music, I certainly raised an eyebrow at the title of this release—the “newest” of the...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
To the best of my knowledge, this is Isabelle Demers’s first solo album. She previously played on a single track, Digital Loom , for an eponymously...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The title of this release refers not to a piece of music but rather to the organ recorded: the much-anticipated Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ in...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is good piano playing; controlled, tonally rich, and respectful. And yes, I am damning this music-making with faint praise, because despite these important qualities, it...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subtitled “Kempff Transcriptions and Encores,” this is a delightful album of mostly early music played magnificently. Of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, annotator Jed Distler suggests...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Max Lifchitz, a respected pianist, composer, and conductor, is also the founder of North/South Consonance, an organization dedicated to the performance and recording of contemporary music....
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Originally recorded and released on Dunelm in 2006, this centennial tribute to Shostakovich offers an illuminating context for his two piano sonatas, setting them against the...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 This is the second release from this label of the playing of the young British pianist James Rhodes. In my review of the premiere CD, I...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A fascinating little box. The first two discs feature Mendelssohn and Handel, while the last (“bonus”) disc centers on music by living composers. The first disc...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Anika Vavić, a name new to me, is a young Serbian pianist, born in Belgrade, who studied primarily in Vienna from the age of 16 onward....
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Yuja Wang’s recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in May 2009 included the Stravinsky, the Brahms, and one of the two Scarlatti sonatas heard...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Eric Aubier, a pupil of Maurice André, first assumed the position of principal trumpet at the Paris Opera at age 19 and subsequently embarked on an...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 The last Naxos viola release I reviewed contained the Lionel Tertis transcription of the Delius Third Violin Sonata ( Fanfare 33:5). That was a great recording,...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Matitiahu Braun has compiled a program of monumental works for violin and for cello (two of Bach’s suites, played on viola), and new ones for violin...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gregory Marion’s booklet notes to Wolfgang David and David Gompper’s recital of influential 20th-century works for violin and piano don’t labor the title’s perhaps contentious assertion...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sophia Jaffé’s debut CD includes challenging works from Bach through Ysaÿe, some of it, like Ysaÿe and possibly Suk, violin music, some of it, like Beethoven...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ruggiero Ricci recorded Bach’s First Solo Sonata twice: in 1957 for London (originally issued as LL 1706) and in 1968 for Decca (issued as DL 10142...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Carolin Widmann’s collection of works for solo violin combines what have in recent years become almost standard repertoire with infrequently performed pieces by Pierre Boulez and...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
