Archive for Patrick Neas
Jan Kraybill is a Treasure
The Kansas City Star hails organist Jan Kraybill as “a local treasure” while reviewing her new recording, The Orchestral Organ: “The Orchestral Organ is a stunner. Imagine some of classical music’s most powerful orchestral works performed on Helzberg Hall’s Casavant organ. If you think that sounds good on paper, wait until you actually hear the recording. Kraybill, who is also the conservator of the Casavant organ, is a one-woman orchestra whose renditions of Wagner, Tchaikovsky,…
Teach Me Thy Statutes is a Kansas City Star Top Summer Pick
The Kansas City Star has released a list of top recordings for the summer, saying and selects our new PaTRAM Institute Teach Me Thy Statutes recording! “The PATRAM Institute Male Choir conducted by Vladimir Gorbik has just released a recording of Chesnokov’s music, and it’s breathtaking. … Many thanks to Reference Recordings (the Kansas City Symphony’s record label) for bringing this unearthly beautiful music out of obscurity for the world to enjoy. It’s a Super…
Kansas City Star Recommends Saint-Saëns
The Kansas City Star‘s Patrick Neas makes his suggestions for music to listen to this summer and the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ” is on the top of his list: “There are many recordings of Camille Saint-Saens’ Organ Symphony on the market, but Reference Recordings has just released a CD by the Kansas City Symphony that can take its place with the best of them. The KC Symphony, with superb direction from…