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Diane Walsh
Nordic Voices
Christopher Taylor
Gary Schocker
Ilya Itin
Israel Camerata
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Diane Walsh, pianist
“...to each work she brought not only
a lovely tone and immaculate technique,
but a deep sense of personal conviction.”
- The Washington Post
The latest recording by celebrated pianist Diane Walsh, a CD of
Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, has just been released by Jonathan
Digital Recordings, Ltd. Diane Walsh is a pianist of great depth; she has been widely praised by
critics in the United States and abroad for her sensitivity and technique. This cd release
coincides with Diane Walsh’s appearance in 33 Variations, a new play
about Ludwig van Beethoven and his obsession with Anton Diabelli’s
“little waltz”. This compelling drama by award-winning playwright and
director Moisés Kaufman (I Am My Own Wife, The Laramie Project, Gross
Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde), premieres August 30th for a
month’s run at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Ms. Walsh, who
performs the variations on stage as the play unfolds, has been
fascinated by them since her student days at The Juilliard School.
Tickets for the play are available for purchase online at
http://www.arenastage.org/season/07-08/33-variations/
Ms. 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, has given solo recitals and
performed concertos worldwide. In recent seasons she performed the
Strauss Burleske with the Syracuse and Delaware symphony orchestras,
Berg’s Kammerkonzert with the American Symphony Orchestra in New York
City, Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 with the Lancaster Symphony
Orchestra, Mozart’s Concerto No. 12 at “Strings in the Mountains” in
Colorado, Mozart’s Concerto No. 25 with the Austin Symphony Orchestra
and, with David Zinman conducting, Mozart’s Concerto No. 24 in upstate
New York at the Skaneateles Festival, where she was also the artistic
director from 1999 to 2004.
Diane Walsh is a Steinway Artist.
LISTEN
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
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
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,
click here.
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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