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Vinikour New Handel Album Review
Delos
Handel: Harpsichord Suites (1720)
James Manheim
Allmusic.com, September 2009
DE 3394
013491339429
Performance: 4 stars
Sound: 4 stars
Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, American-born and French-trained, enters a fairly crowded field with this set of Handel’s suites for harpsichord and emerges with a strong showing. He avoids the bouncy quality that can work well in Handel in general but isn’t quite suited to these […]
Gregoriadou Reinventing Guitar Review
Magazine: JAZZ & TZAZ
(Greece)
October 2009
Issue #199, Page 56
RECORDS REVIEWS
Writer: Thomas Tamvakos
Title: SMARO GREGORIADOU: Reinventing Guitar! (Delos)
In my previous written references about the talented musician Smaro Gregoriadou, I had already stressed how positively would contribute to her artistic prevalence her impending cd edition Reinventing Guitar! released by the world famous California recording label Delos. The quality of the final […]
Trevisani: Bach Trio Sonatas Review
FALAUT MAGAZINE
J.S.Bach – Trio sonatas for flute, violin and piano
Raffaele Trevisani, flute
Piet Koornhof, violin
Paola Girardi, pianoforte
Delos DDD
Trevisani, Koornhof and Girardi bring the structural and expressive elements of these works to a new level in this recording, creating a rare balance between a modern and traditional aesthetic.
The trio sonata, which is characterized by three contrapuntal lines, […]
Joseph Bertolozzi: Bridge Music
DE 1045
UPC: 0 13491 10452 2
You can drive over it, walk along it, see it lit up at night and marvel at its engineering – now you can hear it played as a musical instrument. Quite possibly the largest percussion instrument on the planet, the “Franklin D. Roosevelt” Mid-Hudson Bridge speaks through Joseph Bertolozzi’s […]
J. S. BACH: Trio Sonatas - BWV 1038, 1039, 1079, 1032 - Canon Perpetuus BWV 1079 No. 9
“I do not hesitate to say that he belongs to
the best of the flutists of the day,” Sir James Galway
Italian virtuoso Raffaele Trevisani is recognized as one of the outstanding flutists of his generation, and has been praised
consistently for his style, musicality and beautiful tone quality. One of the very […]
