David Biedenbender’s All We Have Been Given We Cannot Hold is an Intimate Portrait and Masterful Collaboration
David Biedenbender: All We Are Given We Cannot Hold. Shell and Wing (2018), text by Robert...
Read MoreUNCG Duo Produce Moody and Expansive Recording of Late-Romantic Lieder
Othmar Schoeck: Das stille Leuchten. Clara O’Brien, mezzo-soprano; James Douglass, piano; Ablaze Records: ar-00063; Duration 60:00; $13.99 via Ablaze Records. Are you in the market for an NC-created, unique, and...
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Sequina DuBose: Blurred Lines: 21st Century Hybrid Vocal Works
Sequina DuBose, soprano with Gregory Thompson, piano. With Mira Frisch (cello); Daniel Ferreira...
Read MoreWDAV’s Lift Every Voice with Guest Dr. Timothy Holley Will Open Your Mind and Warm Your Heart
WDAV host Joshua Hood spoke with Timothy Holley while introducing radio listeners to inspired works by American composers. Dr. Holley, a scholar and cellist at North Carolina Central University, chose some of his favorite...
Read MoreThorough Appraisal of Now Often Underrated and Overlooked Composer
Eric Saylor, Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872-26 August 1958), Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, (“Master Musicians” series), © 2022, Pp. xv + 339; $35.00 via Amazon. The © year was the 150th...
Read MoreLocklair’s Requiem Recording Cleverly and Beautifully Ordered
Requiem; & Other Choral Works, Dan Locklair (b. 1949), in performance order: Introit & Kyrie Eleison, “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled,” Sanctus-Benedictus, Pie Jesu, Agnus Dei, “I am the...
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Ringing in the Season with a New CD, the Raleigh Ringers Presents Midnight Clear
Midnight Clear, A collection of traditional sacred and secular pieces arranged for Raleigh...
Read More(Palazzetto) Bru Zane; A Label With A Large and Very Worthy Mission
Etienne, Veronique, Herve, Faure, Aparte, l’Opera, francaise, world-premiere, d’ete, melodies, Prophete, Theophile, premiered, Louis-Desire Veron, Ciceri, Musee, Orphee, Champs-Elysees, Sa
Read MoreA Quartet of Recent CDs of Chamber Music for Viola, and Four Earlier (Inter-)Related Ones
bel canto; la voix de l’alto / the voice of viola, Antoine Tamestit, viola (Stradivarius “Mahler,” 1672), Cédric Tiberghien, piano, Vincenzo Bellini, Norma: “Casta Diva,” Gaetano Donizetti, La...
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Pandemic Suite CD by La Fiesta Jazz Quintet Features Local Jazz Greats
CD: The Latin Jazz Pandemic Suite – GREGG GELB, leader, tenor saxophone; Stephen Anderson,...
Read MoreThe Finest Pianos Ever Made
Robert Adelson, b. 1967, Erard; A Passion for the Piano, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, © 2021, Pp. xviii + 238, $74.00 via Amazon.com. This is the simplified definitive book about the Erard piano business, at least...
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THRIO’s Debut Album Honors Jazz Tradition with Modern Twists
THRIO: THRIO Volume 1. Andrew Berinson, piano; Paul Creel, bass; Donovan Cheatham, drums....
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