Archive for Don Clark
Quotations and Homages is a Clear Winner
I Care If You Listen critic Don Clark is more than convinced by Nadia Shpachenko’s new Quotations and Homages recording: “Nadia Shpachenko‘s new Reference Recordings album Quotations and Homages is a clear winner… Coming on the wings of her Grammy-nominated album Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013, also on Reference Recordings, Quotations and Homages showcases Shpachenko’s prodigious pianism and her ability to conceive and execute innovative and accessible programs. As the title…
Woman at the New Piano a “New Favorite”
Critic Don Clark has “a new favorite” in Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano recording: “Woman at the New Piano is an album with a surely cosmic purpose… this prodigiously talented, California-based pianist and teacher, has recorded a delightful and diverse program of brand new works she commissioned in 2013 from four outstanding composers, Tom Flaherty, Peter Yates, Adam Schoenberg and James Matheson. … Shpachenko makes a most convincing case for [Adam Schoenberg’s “Picture…
Kansas City Symphony’s “Gutsy” Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Pictures on Silence blogger Don Clark has a new review for next week’s (6/12/15) Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording: “In addition to being uniformly excellent, the Kansas City Symphony can also be called ‘gutsy’. …This disc from Reference Recordings is a blend of the familiar and rare: an all Saint-Saëns disc featuring the less known “La Muse et le Poete”, op 132 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra combined with the popular…
Organ Polychrome and Miraculous Metamorphoses Named Best of 2014
Kansas City critic, Don Clark, released a “Bakers Dozen” of “Best Recordings of 2014” on Pictures on Silence, and featured two of our Kansas City-based recordings: Organ Polychrome “A hallmark of a great concert hall is a great organ. Not used every day, but when a work requires an organ it is nice to have one around. The Casavant here is a fine “symphonic” organ and blends well with the orchestra. As a solo it…
Kansas City Symphony Miraculous Metamorphoses Hailed as a “Hit”
Kansas City critic, Don Clark, has a review for the new Kansas City Symphony Miraculous Metamorphoses recording on his Pictures on Silence blog: “The program, titled ‘Miraculous Metamorphoses’, captures some of the best playing yet heard from the Symphony. The ensemble is crisp and visceral, lyrical when called upon combined with Stern’s trademark brisk yet not excessive tempi. Michael Stern’s very first concert as Music Director included a performance of the Hindemith “Metamorphosis” that wowed…