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Lara St. John, The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Eduardo Marturet: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
by C. Michael Bailey
Canadian cum American violinist Lara St. John is a classical maverick without peer. The scintillating Bach of her youth, Bach: Works for Solo Violin (Well Tempered Productions, 1996), gave way a decade later to her fully mature Bach of The Six Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo (Ancalagon, 2007), and then to diamond-splendid Hindson, Corigliano, and ...
Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But Love
by C. Michael Bailey
Martial Solal is a nuclear physicist of the piano. He tinkers with the subatomic structure of compositions, moving elements around, pulling them apart, and smashing them together in ways that both surprise and delight. Solal was born Algiers in 1927, settling in Paris in 1950 where he worked with Django Reinhardt and American expatriates Sidney Bechet ...
Martin Frost, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Peter Oundjian: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto and Quintet
by C. Michael Bailey
Clarinetist Martin Frost's recent Weber was exceptional, warranting an appraisal of his earlier Mozart clarinet music. It is difficult to overstate the cultural value of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet String Quintet. Both were composed late in Mozart's young life, the quintet published in 1789 and the concerto in 1791 (the year of his death). Both ...
Margie Notte: Just You, Just Me and Friends: Live at Cecil's
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Margie Notte has an embarrassment of artistic riches. Among those riches are guts, chutzpah, moxie, or balls, if you will. Her debut recording is a live recording. Foregoing the safety of the studio, where a musician can digitally correct any burp, hiccup, and musical sneeze, Notte puts it all out there in front of an ...
The Beethoven Piano Sonata Series: Introduction
by C. Michael Bailey
Before Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) changed the direction of music forever, he was a pianist...and a pretty good one to boot. Beethoven could play fiddle too, but, then again, he was no Paganini (though his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 has never been out of the repertoire and his 10 violin sonatas have always ...
David Binney: Third Occasion
by C. Michael Bailey
Among the many considerable charms of alto saxophonist David Binney is his uncompromising spirit in jazz composition and performance. This spirit infuses every project he takes on, from his Xan Lang projects to his collaborations with pianist Edward Simon. Third Occasion shows Binney's stroke of arranging genius in employing a four-horn brass section (trumpeters Ambrose Akinmusire ...
Two Views of Beth McDonald
by C. Michael Bailey
With singer/songwriter Beth McDonald, music is intensely personal. All aspects of music--performance, composition, arrangement, song choice and delivery--are branded with McDonald's vision. Her liner notes are full of mention of her family, motherhood and love. Her style is 1920s-1940s standards waxing nostalgic (yet still freshly modern) of the simpler, more wholesome things in life. This feeling ...
Evgeny Zarafiants: Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 6
by C. Michael Bailey
In the Twentieth Century, it was the prominent pianists from the former Eastern Bloc who championed the cause of Domenico Scarlatti and his Keyboard Sonatas. Russians Vladimir Horowitz, Emil Gilels, Nikolai Demidenko and Mikhail Pletnev, Hungarians Bela Bartok and Andreas Schiff, Romanian Dinu Lipatti and Croatian Ivo Pogoreli, they all recorded Scarlatti sonatas on piano in ...
Benjamin Frith: Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 5
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Benjamin Frith was born in South Yorkshire and from an early age, he studied with Fanny Waterman. At 14 he won the National Concerto Competition, followed by the Mozart Memorial Prize, the award for Young Concert Artists. His international career was further enhanced winning a Gold Medal at the 1989 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in ...
The Charles Ives Songs Series 1: An Introduction
by C. Michael Bailey
American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) did not pay the bills writing poetry. Stevens attended Yale and then the New York Law School before joining the American Bonding Company as staff council. From ABC, Stevens went on to become the vice-president of the New York Office of the Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis, Missouri. ...
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