Results for "Vivaldi"

Article: Album Review

Joe Hisaishi: A Symphonic Celebration: Music from the Studio Ghibli films of Hayao Miyazaki

Read "A Symphonic Celebration: Music from the Studio Ghibli films of Hayao Miyazaki" reviewed by Scott Gudell

by Scott Gudell
February 17, 2024

Many movie directors have forged tight bonds with musicians/composers and crafted long lasting and trusted partnerships. Director Hayao Miyazaki is the creator, architect and wizard behind the curtain of arguably the greatest film animation studio on the planet, Japan's Studio Ghibli (with all due respect to, and an occasional photo finish with, Disney.) Joe Hisaishi is ...

Article: Interview

Warren Wolf: Reincarnated

by Aaron Paschal
May 6, 2020

Warren Wolf is a Baltimore-born vibraphonist and a member of the SFJAZZ Collective. Reincarnation (2020), his fourth album as leader on Mack Avenue Records, sees Wolf dive into an entirely different side of his musical personality. We got together via ZOOM to talk about his musical influences, how he's staying creative during the COVID pandemic and ...

Album

Vivaldi

By Avi Avital

Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Released: 2015
Track listing: Concerto in Am, RV 356; Concerto in D, RV 93; Mandolin Concerto in C, RV 425; Largo form Concerto in C, RV 443; Trio Sonata in C, RV 82; Concerto in Gm, RV 315 “Summer” from The Four Seasons; La biodina in gondoleta.

Article: Album Review

Avi Avital: Vivaldi

Read "Vivaldi" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 28, 2015

On his debut recording, Bach (2013, Deutsche Grammophon), mandolinist Avi Avital played a pristine, clinically punctilious JSB. It is therefore no surprise that Avital moves a little earlier in the Baroque Era to produce a very similar collection by Antonio Vivaldi. Avital is an Israeli born in 1978 who took part in a local mandolin youth ...