Textura Magazine gives The University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Jerry Junkin’s Migration album a warm review: “Expertly helmed by Jerry Junkin, The University of Texas Wind Ensemble has been commissioning new music and performing world premieres for more than three decades. …Migration is very much characteristic of Schoenberg’s music and shows why he’s been twice named one of the most performed living composers by orchestras in the United States.… In [Corigliano’s] dazzling set-piece, Gunn glides…
Fanfare‘s Mark Novak gives the University of Texas Wind Ensemble’s Migration recording a Five Star Review and places it in the “Not To Be Missed” section! “This is an outstanding compilation of music for wind ensemble by four living American composers. The first accolade goes to Reference Recordings and their superbly excellent recording which can be heard even with standard CD resolution. The dynamic range is wide, the impression of being present in the hall…
The Recording Academy announced their 60th GRAMMY® Award Nominations this morning, and Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony‘s Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio and Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony‘s recording of Adam Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music have both received multiple nominations! Best Engineered Album, Classical Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio – Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies – Keith O. Johnson…
The Kansas City Star has some suggestions for your summer classical playlists, and the Kansas City Symphony’s recording of Adam Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music is at the top: Order Now “At the top of the list is the latest recording from the Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern. The disc is devoted to three works by 36-year-old composer Adam Schoenberg… Schoenberg is a masterful orchestrator, and his use of orchestral color serves him well in…
Order Now The Kansas City Symphony‘s Adam Schoenberg Orchestral Music recording is a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month! “There is no doubt that the music is technically challenging and the writing is often complex. However, it seems to me that Schoenberg’s achievement in these three scores is that he has written music that, no matter how technically demanding it may be, never leaves the listener behind. There’s absolutely no condescension to the listener yet…
Order Now The Meet The Artist blog has a wonderful new interview with composer Adam Schoenberg: Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? My father is a world-class piano improviser, and my mother is a lyricist and children’s book author. I was surrounded by music my entire life, and began playing the piano at the age of three. Looking back, it was almost inevitable that I would eventually become a composer.…
Order Now Textura Magazine offers high praise for composer Adam Schoenberg and the Kansas City Symphony’s recording of his orchestral music: “There’s something distinctly American about Adam Schoenberg’s music, and it’s not just because one of the pieces on this recording bears the title American Symphony. Largely tonal, melodically rich, and rhythmically robust… If any composer looms large as a point of reference, it’s Aaron Copland, though there are moments when one might be reminded…
Order Now “Currently teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles, [Adam Schoenberg]’s a rising star, his tonal, tuneful, colourfully scored music performed by orchestras across the US. … [Finding Rothko] successfully mirrors Rothko’s art — atmospheric, meditative and imposing, with shimmering colours that effectively play against each other in unexpected ways.… Schoenberg’s five-movement American Symphony (2011) begins and ends with buoyant optimism, powered by quasi- minimalist ostinatos. Two solemn, slow movements, built on sustained Coplandesque…
Order Now “Schoenberg’s painterly soundscapes fall very easily on the ear… Best in my view are the Picture Studies, especially the Stravinskyan ferocity of ‘Kandinsky’ and ‘Miró’, which is bouncy and percussive, with telling use of an E-flat clarinet. The closing piece, ‘Pigeons in Flight’ after a photograph by Francis Blake recalls, like certain other works on the disc, the gently pulsing, harmonically pleasing delirium of Reich, though Schoenberg’s style more approximates the composing manners…
Order Now Audiophile Audition gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for “American music by [Adam] Schoenberg wonderfully recorded and performed” by the Kansas City Symphony! “[Adam] Schoenberg has had a productive relationship with the Kansas City Symphony and conductor Michael Stern, so the disc contains some early works by Schoenberg and a work commissioned by the KCS. Schoenberg’s works are increasingly being played by American Symphony Orchestras. He has a unique voice, and audiences seem to be connecting to…
The Reference Recordings team is headed to Austin for a double-recording session with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble. See the repertoire below and watch two video previews of Adam Schoenberg’s Symphony No. 2! Recording Session Repertoire Album 1 featuring the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and director Jerry F. Junkin John Corigliano, trans. Craig Davis – Concerto for Clarinet Adam Schoenberg – Symphony No. 2 Jennifer Jolley (newly commissioned piece) Stephen…
Order Now Across-the-board ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews for the Kansas City Symphony’s recording of Adam Schoenberg orchestral music! “I took a chance on this disc of new music from Adam Schoenberg (no relation that I can find to the more famous Arnold) for the simple reason I have admired previous recordings from Michael Stern and his excellent Kansas City Symphony.… The first two works presented here, Finding Rothko and American Symphony, are student works, dating from when…
Order Now “This thoroughly enjoyable new release from the audiophile Reference Recordings label features three orchestral works by the young Los Angeles based composer Adam Schoenberg (born 1980). Together they chart a period of his compositional development from the first piece entitled ‘Finding Rothko’ (2006), written while he was still a student studying with John Corigliano, to his ‘American Symphony’ of (2011) and finally his latest orchestral work ‘Picture Studies’ (2012).… Schoenberg’s music is tonal,…
Order Now North Texas arts magazine TheaterJones launches a new recording column with a review of The Kansas City Symphony’s recording of music by Adam Schoenberg. Adam Schoenberg will be appearing in North Texas with in April for a performance of his work La Luna Azul with the Fort Worth Symphony. “The music turns out to be charming and agreeable, but self-confident enough not to beg us to like it. The first work on the…
Adam Schoenberg Recordings The Listeners’ Club has a new review of our first release featuring the music of Adam Schoenberg, Woman At The New Piano by Nadia Shpachenko: “This has to be some of the most playfully exuberant and joyful music ever written. American composer Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980) wrote Bounce in 2013, after learning that he was about to become a father. The piece, which has been described as “Radiohead meets Aaron Copland,” was…