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Diane Walsh
Nordic Voices
Christopher Taylor
Gary Schocker
Ilya Itin
Israel Camerata
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Diane Walsh, pianist
Pianist Diane Walsh, whose many awards over a 35-year international
career include the top prizes at the Munich International Piano
Competition and the Salzburg International Mozart Competition, regularly
performs solo recitals, chamber music and concertos worldwide. She has
appeared with the radio symphonies of Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and
Berlin, the American Symphony, and the symphonies of San Francisco,
Indianapolis, Austin, Delaware and Syracuse. Her solo recitals include
engagements at the Metropolitan Museum, Merkin Concert Hall, the 92nd
Street Y and the Miller Theatre in New York City, the Kennedy Center in
Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Wigmore Hall in London, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Dvorak
Hall in Prague and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Summer festivals where she
has performed include Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bard and the Skaneateles
Festival in upstate New York, where she was the artistic director from
1999 to 2004. In 2007-2008 she was The Pianist in two productions of 33
Variations, a play about Beethoven by Moisés Kaufman: at Arena Stage in
Washington, D.C. and at La Jolla Playhouse in California. Ms. Walsh has
made fourteen other recordings for labels which include Bridge, Newport,
Sony, Nonesuch, Koch, Stereophile and CRI. She has begun recording the
complete Schubert Sonatas for Jonathan Digital Recordings.
Diane Walsh is a Steinway Artist.
“Plenty of romantic sweep and arching lyricism.”
Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
“Solid musicianship and white-hot intensity.”
Classik Reviews
“Soulfully romantic, very lovely and deeply expressive... one amazing pianist.”
American Record Guide
LISTEN
Complete Schubert Sonatas, Vol. 1
3:06
MP3 1,238K Sonata in A minor, Op. 42, D. 845, Moderato
2:43
MP3 1,157K Sonata in D major, Op. 53, D. 850, Allegro vivace
Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120. Beethoven
0:46
MP3 347K Thema Vivace
1:14
MP3 639K Var. 7 - Allegro ma non troppo e serioso
2:56
MP3 1,379K Var. 24 - Fughetta. Andante
1:36
MP3 744K Var. 26
1:55
MP3 827K Var. 30 - Andante, sempre cantabile
2:57
MP3 1,357K Var. 32 - Largo, molto espressivo
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Nordic Voices
“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail.
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail...”
excerpt from Ligeti’s Lobster Quadrille
In one very obvious component, vocal music is different from
instrumental music: it is concerned with language. This special meeting
of two forms of expression, words and music, presents a universe of
possibilities, and the approach to the use of text in music throughout
history and from piece to piece is certainly not fixed and standardized,
but ranges from straightforward, dramatic, musical storytelling to
combining raw phonemes in an abstract sound-world of semantic meaning.
This ‘sound world’ of voices will be heard by audiences in the U.S. when
Nordic Voices embark on their first tour to the western hemisphere in
October of 2003 with concerts from Alabama to Maine including Washington
and New York.
Watch
Cuckoo in the pear-tree, Ligeti, Nonsense Madrigals
1:40
MPEG 11.6Mb
I seraillets have, Stenhammar, Tre körvisor
2:02
MPEG 14.1Mb
LISTEN
Wilhelm Stenhammar, September from Sense & nonSense
1:54
MP3 899K
WAV 2.4Mb
Goffredo Patrassi, Nonsense 1 from Sense & nonSense
1:10
MP3 555K
WAV 1.4Mb
Francis Poulenc, La Blanche Neige from Sense & nonSense
1:14
MP3 579K
WAV 1.5Mb
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Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Ilya Itin, pianist
Israel Camerata Jerusalem on Tour, represents the commitment of an
artists manager to his artists - Ilya Itin and The Israel Camerata. One
of the great chamber orchestras performing today collaborates here with
the remarkable pianist Ilya Itin, first prize winner of the Leeds
International Piano Competition. This is an especially exciting release.
Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto on this CD was recorded in Israel
less than two months before the release, and the planning and production
of this CD also were coordinated with a subsequent United States tour by
Ilya Itin and the The Camerata, which took place in 2001.
LISTEN Beethoven Piano Concerto #2, Rondo
from Israel Camerata Jerusalem on Tour
0:34
MP3 267K
WAV 735K
6:14
MP3 5,855K
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Gary Schocker, flutist
The usual biographical details only hint at the real story about this
fascinating and creative performer. Gary Schocker is indeed one of the
finest flutists performing today. But he is also a noted pianist and a
prolific composer, having written musicals, award-winning works for the
clarinet and for the flute, (as well as a wide variety of other
material) and a sought after chamber musician.
On his CD Airborne, you can hear why the Washington Post wrote
``Schocker dazzled as few artists can... [he] is one of the best -
period.´´ The CD, entirely of Schocker compositions, features his own
performances on solo flute, and one discovers why the scores to his
compositions sell so rapidly through
Theodore Presser
(his Publisher).
Gary Schocker´s second CD re-issued on the JDR label, Regrets &
Resolutions, is what one might call a performance history of the modern
flute - ranging from a work by Theobald Boehm, literally the inventor of
the modern flute, through works of Paul Taffanel and Philippe Gaubert
who together wrote the ``bible of flute studies´´, and ending with Gary´s
own CD-title track, Regrets & Resolutions.
LISTEN Musique Françis, café music - from Airborne
0:43
MP3 336K
WAV 923K
4:12
MP3 4,029K
LISTEN Regrets & Resolutions - title track
0:33
MP3 260K
WAV 715K
7:52
MP3 7,389K
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Christopher Taylor, pianist
The remarkable American pianist Christopher Taylor first performed
Olivier Messiaen’s transformative work for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur
l’Enfant Jésus, at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre in February
2001. New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini concluded his review with
“...his performance was a highlight of the season and already represents
an astonishing achievement. And it should only grow deeper as Mr.
Taylor lives with the music in the future...” Indeed, Christopher Taylor
has lived with the music, and played it across the United States and in
Europe.
The DVD now available on this web site is an unedited performance of the
work from a December 2003 concert at The Angel Orensanz Center for the
Arts in the “east Village” of New York City. In this case “unedited”
means that every note and nuance of the performance is as it was played
on that cold December night—but many hours of synchronizing a
three-camera television shoot were required to bring what one sees to a
finely-tuned artistic whole with what one hears. This DVD is a tour de
force. Mr. Taylor has lived up to Anthony Tommasini’s prediction in
that original Times review that “it should only grow deeper as (he)
lives with the music...” He has now lived with it for some seven years,
and in this 100th—anniversary year of Olivier Messiaen’s birth (2008)
he will perform the work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas,
Cleveland, San Diego (La Jolla), New York, Washington (Library of
Congress), Utah’s MOAB Festival, and Chicago to mention but a few
musical centers.
As you move to the Order Page of this website you will be treated to a
series of quotes drawn from reviews from around the US which will attest
to the visionary wisdom of Anthony Tommasini’s words.
Click here
to read the Los Angeles Times, July, 2008 review of Christopher Taylor’s performance of
Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus.
Watch
Regard de l’étoile, Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus
3:05
MPEG 7.4Mb
Regard de l’Eglise d’amour, Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus
12:19
MPEG 28.2Mb
A stunning new recording of William Bolcom´s Pulitzer Prize-winning
Twelve New Études (1977-86) features Christopher Taylor, an
American pianist who is gaining a cult following for his eagerness to
tackle the most daunting modern music. Bolcom´s virtuoso
études, a postmodern answer to the nineteenth-century barn burners
of Chopin and Liszt, revel in popular styles that range from ragtime to
blues to old-timey, Italianate melodrama. They require a pianist of
equally nimble intelligence and imagination - not to mention physical
endurance - and Taylor is more than up to the challenge. The disk also
includes another suite, Turning, by the eclectic young
composer Derek Bermel.
The New Yorker
“Christopher Taylor sometimes gave proof of a snarling and
impassioned rage, of an engagement rendered possible by a faultless
technique. But he also knew how to illustrate, with ample breathing, the
most enigmatic portions (as in Regard du temps) those that bestow upon
this mystical work an aura of unfathomable mystery.”
Le Temps (Geneva), Rocco Zacheo, July 25, 2006
“In the end this was an evening devoted to the exploration of
limits. Most apparent were the almost superhuman control, coordination
and concentration of the performer. Also tested were the infinite color,
dynamic, and textural possibilities of the grand piano.”
Chicago Tribune, Michael Cameron, August 29, 2003
“You have to have intelligence to be a concert pianist. But the
depth of Christopher Taylor's intelligence is intimidating.”
The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, February 6, 2001
“...It was wonderful to hear Taylor play with the inwardness,
simplicity, and tenderness that he brought to the quieter movements and
moments. In his still-developing combination of intellect,
adventurousness, brawn, and open feeling, he has emerged as the leading
American pianist of his generation.”
The Boston Globe, Richard Dyer, October 22, 2002
LISTEN Rag Infernal -
from Works of Bolcom and Bermel
1:04
MP3 1017K
WAV 1335K
LISTEN Carnaval Noir -
from Works of Bolcom and Bermel
2:49
MP3 2,657K
For more information on Christopher Taylor,
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Click here
to find out about Christopher Taylor’s new recording of Franz Liszt’s
Twelve Transcendental Etudes on Liszt Digital Recordings! |
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