CM20016 Three Centuries of French Harpsichord Music George Lucktenberg, harpsichord Louis Couperin: Passacaille in C Major Johann Jacob Froberger: Tombeau fait á Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancrocher Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: Suite in A Minor François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, 3me livre Jean Baptiste Forqueray & Antoine Forqueray: Pièces de clavecin Naji Hakim: Suite “Shasta”Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20017 Forgotten Piano Duets, Vol. 2 Lenti Piano Duo (Marianne & Tony Lenti, piano) Frantisek Xaver Dusek: Sonata in E Flat Major, Sykora 26 Franz Liszt: Grande Valse di Bravura, Op. 6 Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Pieces, Op. 14 (Adagio cantabile & Allegro energico) George Onslow: Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7 Arthur Bird: Introduction & Fugue, Op.16 “…the Lentis serve up exuberant and well-accentuated performances that properly refuse to smooth over the music’s profile. Good sound, too. Recommended.” Peter J. Rabinowitz (Fanfare) Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20018 Contrasts In Contemporary Music David Randolph, tuba Peggy Randolph and Richard Zimdars, piano Thom Ritter George: Sonata for Tuba & Piano, CN307 Jeno Takacs: Sonata Capricciosa, Op. 81 Halsey Stevens: Sonatina for Tuba & Piano Claude Baker: Omaggi e Fantasie “…well-played program…I hope it (Baker) will become an important part of the repertoire.” Kilpatrick (American Record Guide) “Randolph’s tuba playing is exceptionally clean and accurate, an impression which is reinforced by his choice of repertory.” James H. North (Fanfare) “…Randolph displays a variety of timbre colors in this recording and uses them to great advantage. … The music is interesting and enjoyable to listen to, the performances are carefully conceived, and the end product should definitely be part of every tubist’s collection.” Mark Nelson (TUBA Journal) Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20020 Let It Shine Laura English-Robinson, soprano Walter Huff, piano Spirituals including arrangements by John Work, Jr., Hall Johnson, Wendell Whalum, Betty Jackson King, Margaret Bonds, Uzee Brown, Jr., Florence Price, Raymond Chenault and closing with John Carter’s Cantata. “Hers is an extremely attractive voice, rich in the low register, bright and secure on top, strongly supported by excellent musicianship, fine diction, and exemplary taste… Walter Huff is a splendid partner, handling the quickly changing styles and the occasional formidable demands of the piano writing with polish and flair.” Richard Burke (Fanfare)“This is a lovely disc. English-Robinson has a beautiful, caressing voice that can soar to the skies” Reynolds (American Record Guide) “Ms. English-Robinson’s rich, full soprano, capable of both ravishingly tender pianissimi and powerful emotional outbursts, is eminently suitable for these pieces.” David Bradley (The NATS Journal)Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20021 Piano Music of the Americas James Miltenberger, piano Alberto Ginastera: Sonata No. 1, Op. 22 Robert Garcia Morillo: Cuarta Sonata, Op. 26 George Gershwin: Medley No. 1 & Medley No. 2 Scott Green: Onata-Say Too (Son of Onata-Say) Migel del Aguila: Sonata No. 2“…Miltenberger succeeds with readings that are fresh, affectionate, and sweetly endearing…Miltenberger’s jazz background is always apparent in his masterful and subtle control of rubato tempo, a vital skill for almost any piano music of the Americas, and for certainly everything on this delightful CD.” Peter Burwasser (Fanfare)“Part of his secret is undoubtedly the magnificent sound he—and ACA’s engineer’s—get out of the piano… something of a relief from the soft focus of too many recent digital piano recordings.” Lehman (American Record Guide)Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20022 Live from Spivey Hall Alan Morrison, organ Leo Sowerby: Pageant Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonata IV in E Minor, BWV 528 Charles-Marie Widor: Andante Sostenuto from Symphonie Gothique, Op. 70 Louis Vierne: Finale from Symphonie VI, Op. 59 Dan Locklair: Voyage: A Fantasy for Organ Jon Spong: Suite on “No, Not One” Dudley Buck: The Star Spangled Banner: Concert Variations, Op. 23 Ernesto Lecuona: Gitanerias Recorded on the Ruffatti organ at Spivey Hall. https://alanmorrison.com “The playing is alert and intelligent, the program chosen to blend the familiar with the less-well known, … the engineering is superb. Often organ recitals sound as if they were recorded at the distant end of a gargantuian cave… here the listener can imagine himself in the loft alongside Morrison.” Martin Anderson (Fanfare) “Alan Morrison is a brilliant, flashy performer of the first rank. He has a wonderful sense of dramatic timing that is a consistent joy to hear.” Bond (American Record Guide) “If Morrison’s playing doesn’t make you an organ fan, there is just no hope for you…Excellent recording sonics…allow us to hear all the delicious detail.” Phil Muse (The AAS Journal)Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20023 A Virtuoso Duo-Piano Showcase Joanne Rogers & Jeannine Morrison, pianos J. B. Duvernoy: Feu roulant, Op. 256 Ernst von Dohnányi: Suite en valse, Op. 39a Harold Stover: Rag, Pastorale & Carillon Witold Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b Johnny Costa: Flying Fingers “The Rogers-Morrison team … play like seasoned professionals” (Fanfare V.19, No. 1)Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20024 A Concert Tribute to Olivier Messiaen Presented by Emory University O sacrum convivium! [The Britten Choir: Alfred Calabrese, conductor] Poèms pour Mi, Book I [Teresa Hopkin, soprano & Deborah Thoreson, piano] La Merle Noir [Carl Hall, flute & Deborah Thoreson, piano] Offertoire from Messe de la Pentecôte [Timothy Albrecht, organ] Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum [Emory Wind Ensemble, Steven Everett, conductor] “This collection of live performances commemorating Messiaen, who died in 1992, makes a convenient and well-wrought introduction to this music of genius…For both newcomers to Messiaen, and for the initiated, this disc is warmly recommended.” Peter Burwasser (Fanfare) “…performances ranging from careful and competent…to outstanding…and Hall’s beguiling fluting in Le merle noir.” Raymond (American Record Guide)Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20025 Tuba Suites… and other sweets David Randolph, tuba Peggy Randolph, piano Jean-Michel Defaye: Suite Marine Alexei Lebedev: Concert Allegro Jules Semler-Collery: Barcarolle et Chanson Bachique Vitorio Monti: Csardas Jan Koetsier: Sonatina Gordon Jacob: Tuba Suite Simone Mantia: All Those Endearing Young Charms Donald Swann: Two Moods Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20026 Visions of Dunbar Original Works & Transcriptions by Robert Schultz Tina Faigen, piano Visions of Dunbar, Op. 25 Montage, Op. 20 Reminiscences, Op. 24, Nos. 1-8 Ballade, Op. 17 Impromptus, Op. 23, Nos. 3-5 Arrangements: Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice (C.W. Gluck) Pavane, Op. 50 by Gabriel Faure Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 by Sergei Rachmaninoff http://www.schultzmusic.com/ “Miss Faigen …commands a rich palette of pianistic colors and fingers of awesome dexterity.” Byron Belt (Newhouse News Service) Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20027 The Voice and the Virtuoso The University of Georgia Contemporary Chamber Ensemble Lewis Nielson, conductor Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire Lewis Nielson: Black Magic (Mojo Hand) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Passages Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20028 Consonare Phillip Weaver, guitar & Ingrid von Spakovsky, piano Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Fantasia, Op. 145 Radamès Gnàttali: Sonatina Concertino Bryan Kelly: Basque Suite Mauro Giuliani & Ignaz Moscheles: Pastorale from Grand Duo Concertant Scott Joplin (arr. by Phillip Weaver): The Entertainer Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016 http://philweaverguitar.com/ “Here is an extraordinarily attractive recording for those who love the classical guitar… The recording … convincingly captures every tonal shading of both instruments.” Robert McColley (Fanfare) Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20029 New American Masterworks for Solo Piano John Perry, piano Paul Cooper: Sinfonia for Piano Solo Samuel Jones: Piano Sonata Donald Keats: Piano Sonata“They are played by John Perry with lots of power and authority” Lehman (American Record Guide) Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |
CM20030 Songs with a Touch of Bass David Stoffel, bass-baritone Milton Masciadri, double bass Ivan Frazier, piano Unique arrangements of songs by Tchaikovsky, Lully, Barber, Mozart and others.“A charming, old-fashioned recital with a novel touch…they bring talent and conviction to their readings of these old chestnuts.” Lucano (American Record Guide) “They seem to blend as one and find a finesse of style” Candace A. Magner (NATS Journal of Singing)Available for purchase and streaming at Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube |