Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
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PREMIERES: A Documentary of Three World Premiere Performances from the 2005 Tuscon Winter Chamber Music Festival (DVD) |
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Lee Hoiby - Sonnets and Soliloquies for String Quartet & Soprano Jeffery Cotton - Duo for Violin & Percussion Steven Stucky - Piano Quartet |
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13th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL |
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Philipp Scharwenka - Piano Trio in C-sharp minor, Opus 100 Ottorino Respighi - Quintet for Piano and Strings Sergei Taneyev - Quintet for Two Violins, Viola, Violoncello, and Piano in G minor, Opus 30 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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12th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL |
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Robert Schumann - Andante & Variations for Two Pianos, Two Cellos and Horn Witold Lutoslawski - Variations on a Theme of Paganini for Two Pianos Bela Bartok - Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin and Piano Johannes Brahms - Horn Trio in E-flat major, Opus 40 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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11th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL |
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Francois Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Francis Bridge - Lament for Two Violas Ralph Vaughn Williams - Phantasy Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas and Cello Edward Elgar - Piano Quintet in A minor Sample 1, Sample 2 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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10th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Contemporary Czech Chamber Music |
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Jiri Gemrot - Quintet for Piano, two violins Viola & Cello Bohuslav Martinu - Duo No. 1 for Violin & Cello Bohuslav Martinu - Quartet for Oboe, Piano, Violin & Cello Sylvie Bodorova - Mysterium Druidum - Quintet for Harp & Strings Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE "Tucson's Winter Chamber Music Festival have given us many superb in-concert chamber-music recordings, often of rare and interesting repertoire‹as they do here, in this splendid anthology of modern Czech pieces that include two recorded premieres....Jiri Gemrot's Piano Quintet...what gorgeous music it is...This is a major work by a gifted and skillful artist...I'm thrilled to have a chance to hear it and I intend to look for more by this composer. Also a first recording, Sylvie Bodorova's three-movement Quintet for harp and strings...more rhapsodic and exotic...compelling. Two fine MartinU compositions...Performances are wonderful: expert and confident" FANFARE "There's much to take for joy in here, from works and performances alike...Gemrot is a rich, powerful work...Melodic material throughout is arresting...this work...with an emotional boldness and idiomatic handling of the instruments that should secure it many more performances....Mysterium Druidium...Sylvie Bodorova...accessible and theatrically effective, if rambling, work. The performance from the 10th Tucson's Winter Chamber Music Festival are spirited and thoroughly professional MartinU's Oboe Quartet is distinctly preferable to the overly relaxed one on Naxos 8.553916...this recording is certainly recommended, especially for the Gemrot. Let's hope we hear more of him" | |||
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8th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 20th Century Russian Chamber Music |
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Stravinsky - L'Historie du Soldat: Suite for Violin, Clarinet & Piano Shostakovich - Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok for Soprano & Piano Trio, Opus 127 Prokofiev - Quintet in G minor for Violin, Viola, Bass, Oboe & Clarinet, Opus 39 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "...first rate performances of...Prokofiev ...this Arizona performance stands ...well above all other performances of this music I've heard. A similar richness of expression marks the trio version of Stravinsky's L'Histoire." AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE "Tucson's Winter Chamber Music Festival (March 2001). By almost everyone's account, it is one of the finest such festivals devoted to chamber music exclusively. Last year's was somewhat unique in emphasizing Russian music...All of the performers are top notch...Shostakovich...Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok for soprano and piano trio is rarified and dignity-laden effort than aches with beauty and pathos...The audience is as quiet as a countryside snowfall, and the performers not the least Ms. Shabanina are splashed with sensitivity and grace. Superb." | |||
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7th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Latin America Chamber Music |
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Villa-Lobos - Suite for Voice and Violin Ponce - Sonata Breve Ginastera - Pampeana #2 Rapsodia para Violincello y Piano Gustavino - Sonata para Clarinete y Piano Penaforte - Quartetice Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "This very entertaining recital...the only currently available recording...Ginastera's Pampeana No. 2...Rhapsody for cello and piano...Peter Rejto...brilliant and incisive. I admire both....Guastavino...The clarinet Sonata is a real find...the music on the CD, it's worth of the high-quality performances it receives." AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE "These recordings of Latin American Music...are remarkable. With the exception of the Ginastera and the Gustavino, everything here is recorded for the first time. All the playing is extraordinary; everything radiates energy and intensity. The program is extremely creative." | |||
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6th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 19th Century French Romanticism |
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Fauré - Piano Quartet in G minor, Opus 45 Chausson - Piano Quartet in A Major, Opus 30 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "from the 1999 Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival comes something other, better, more gripping — disturbing, too — than the usual lapidary readings of these once-neglected works...Fauré becomes a passionate, relentless questioning, placing...blows over the usual glib brilliance with tempestuous sultriness...The wind up is dramatic, surging, suspenseful...we have the most divinatory approach to Fauré Chausson...this performance draws them with richer nuance. These are, in sum, not merely another pair of polished performances but spellbinding interpretations...Superb. And enthusiastically recommended." | |||
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5th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL |
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Bartók - String Quartet No. 2, Opus 17 Schurmann - Piano Quartet Nr. 2 for Piano and Strings Schulhoff - Sextet for Strings Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "...The recorded sound is outstanding, the playing is altogether admirable, and the music is wonderful...Schurmann is its world premiere...appealing, lyrical, and generally compelling...very handsomely played ...Schulhoff's...sextet's...the audience's enthusiastic response seems completely warranted" | |||
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4th TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL |
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Bartók - Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet & Piano Harbison - Twilight Music for Horn Trio Dahl - Concerto-a-Tre for Clarinet, Violin & Cello Parker - Pan Dreams for Flute & Piano Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "...If you have a spark of adventure in you, I do urge you to sample this totally enjoyable release...outstanding sonics...meticulous balance between clarity and warmth that you rarely encounter." AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE "Don't be put off by the obscure label; this is a splendid disc of exciting but polished in-concert performances captured in exceptionally vivid sound...Best of all, the music - including some seldom-recorded treasures ‹ is wonderful...There are by now many good recordings, but this is one of the most expressive (and best recorded) I've heard...John Harbison's 1984 Twilight Music ... the real prize here is Ingolf Dahl's 1947 Concerto A Tre for clarinet, violin, and cello...is a masterpiece...This version is better played and better recorded than...and... is the one to get." | |||
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3rd TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Vol. 3 |
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Ravel - Introduction and Allegro for Harp, String Quartet, Flue and Clarinet Saint-Saëns - Fantasy for Violin and Harp, Opus 124 Debussy - Sonata for Flure, Viola and Harp Absil - Silhouettes, Opus 97 Tournier - Images for Harp and String Quartet, Opus 35 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "...The Prazak Quartet...performs admirably, and...What sets this CD apart, however, are the remaining pieces. Saint-Saën's chamber music...he and Englichova play this Fantasy as if their lives depended on it." | |||
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3rd TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Vol. 2 |
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Brahms - String sextet B Flat MAJOR, Opus 18 Dvorak - Piano Quintet in A MAJOR, Opus 81 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "...The stunner here is a brilliant, appropriately robust performance of Dvorak's splendid piano Quintet in A...This work has been recorded a dozen times...that this one at least equals the very best I have hear...Braham's First String Sextet performance...does full justice to this widely appreciated but still underrated masterpiece...To summarize...Brahms fine, Dvorak superb, disc strongly recommended." | |||
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3rd TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Vol. 1 SOLD OUT |
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Janàcek - String Quartet No. 1, "The Kreutzer Sonata" Janàcek - String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters" Janàcek - Sonata for Piano and Violin Dvorák - Four Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, Opus 75 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "...superb readings of Janàcek's string quartet. The Prazak Quartet plays with astonishing fluency and technique...most impressive of all is how the Prazak has captured the spirit of these works....The disc would be highly recommended if it had only these two quartets, but in addition there is a very fine performance of Janàcek's Violin Sonata by one of the work's greatest proponents, Josef Suk...with Ralph Votapek...And there is more. The four Dvorak Romantic Pieces...played with great affection by Suk and Votapek, Bringing the disc to a perfect conclusion....music-making is of such a caliber...in all four pieces on this highly recommended disc." | |||
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TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 1994 & 1995 Selections |
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Mozart - String Quintet in g minor, K. 516 Schürmann - Quartet for Piano and Strings Debussy - Sonata for Violincello and Piano Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL March 1995 |
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Brahms - Piano Quintet in f minor Rorem - Santa Fe Songs Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "The Brahms Quintet in F Minor...this one certainly matches the best I have heard...with a song cycle by Ned Rorem...Both the Quintet and the Song Cycle receive excellent contributions from everyone involved...the sonics here do full justice to music and performances of the highest caliber." | |||
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TUSCON WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL March 1994 |
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Brahms - String Sextet in G Major, Opus 36 Shostakovich - Piano Trio in E Minor Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "This is a very fine performance of one of Brahms's Loveliest works...the beauty of the music and the polish and involvement of the performers come through on this most enjoyable disc." | |||
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DEBUT CHAMBER WORKS WITH VOICE Jennifer Foster, Soprano |
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Respighi - II Tramonto for Voice and String Quartet Ginastera - Cantos del Tucumán for Voice, Flute, Violin, Harp & Drums, Opus 4 Rodrigo - Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios Villa-Lobos - Suite for Voice & Violin Castelnuevo-Tedesco - Three Sephardic Songs Ravel - Five Popular Greek Songs Delage - Quatre Poemes Hidinous for Nonet & Soprano Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "Ravel's...fascinates by...seemingly without effort draws out a series of beautiful half shades...She is most impressive...All in all, an attractive release" | |||
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ROMANTIC RUSSIAN CHAMBER WORKS WITH TWO CELLOS SOLD OUT |
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Taneyev - String Quintet for Two Cellos, Opus 14 Arensky - String Quartet in A minor, Opus 35, for Two Cellos Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL "A final similarity (between Taneyev and Arensky) is that these live recordings, made by different artists at different times, are both excellent, of the highest calibre of chamber playing in accuracy, verve, expressiveness and ensemble spirit; the audience applause shows they were well appreciated. In the Taneyev there are some noisy page turns and even grunts from the musicians, but not to any obtrusive extent. The technical quality of the recording is also of the very highest calibre giving an unimpeded sense of being in the presence of the musicians. "Both performances are deeply committed. Both sets of artists "get" all the musical jokes - witty references to works by Taneyev's friends such as Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov - and play them up properly." FANFARE "Tucson's Winter Chamber Music Festival has been making records since 1994. This is the first one I have come across and it is a beauty....the present program is just as interesting and played in a particularly lively way, combining the intensity of a concert performance with remarkable virtuosity and accuracy." | |||
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TIAN YING PIANO SOLOS |
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Mozart - Rondo in A minor, K. 511 Chopin - Fantasy in F minor, Opus 49 Rachmaninov - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Opus 42 Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit Schumann - Toccata, Opus 7 Visit Arizona Friends of Chamber Music on the web at http://www.arizonachambermusic.org/ |
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The Critics Say: FANFARE "the stunning CD by the young, Shanghai-born Tian Ying...technique...extraordinary even by today's rather inflated standards...far from an orthodox contest-winning virtuoso: for even more impressive than his technique is the quality of interpretations...What remains absolutely consistent from the beginning to end, though, is the freshness of his musical vision...All in all, a spectacular release." | |||
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