Toccata Classics
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Bernhard Sekles: Chamber Music
Solomia Soroka (violin and viola), Noreen Silver (cello) & Phillip Silver (piano)
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Cerha: Music for Violin and Piano and Solo Piano
Ernst Kovacic (violin) & Mathilde Hoursiangou (piano)
a powerful portfolio of works that sings with the memories of violinists and composers Cerha has encountered and assimilated into this valuable sheaf of compositions. —
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Korngold: Much Ado about Nothing: Complete Incidental Music
University of North Carolina School of the Arts & Drama Soloists and Symphony Orchestra, John Mauceri
The playing is very fine indeed...all in all this was a very worthwhile project that enhances our understanding of Korngold's burgeoning gifts as a composer for the stage - and ultimately the... —
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While Cantores is not one of the top choirs I really like the sound they make. The vocal quality I would describe as airy. Intonation is reliable as is diction. They are largely Exeter graduates... —
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The performances are exemplary, a tribute to the Cuarteto Latinamericano's fine musicianship and willingness to explore very different terrain to that for which they are best known on disc,... —
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Hans Gál: Music for Cello and Piano
Alfia Nakipbekova (cello), Alfia Nakipbekova (cello) & Jakob Fichert (piano)
Intricate contrapuntal dialogue in the Cello Sonata pays obvious homage to Brahms and Reger. Dedicated playing from Alfia Nakipbekova and Jakob Fichert. —
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[Lupu is] full of little details and subtleties that align his playing with the presumed performance practices of the time — flattened intonation to point ‘pathetic’ phrasing, for instance. —
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I found [Powell's] interpretations most engaging and enterprising...[he] is a most perceptive advocate of this music...there is a great deal to hold the appeal. —
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