Archive for Review – Page 10
Textura Raves for Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music
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…
Adam Schoenberg is a Rising Star
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…
ClassicalEar on Adam Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music: Superb
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…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Across The Board for Saint-Saëns LP!
Order Now The Audio Beat critic, Tim Aucermann, gives our Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Reference Mastercuts LP a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating in Music and Sound: “Reference Recordings (RR) has catered to vinyl-playing audiophiles since the mid-1970s, and label CEO Tam Henderson has a solid grasp of what his finicky audience wants: recordings of acoustic music performed in actual concert spaces captured in holographic sound with a genuine sense of presence. And realistic…
Adam Schoenberg Gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From Audiophile Audition
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…
HRAudio Gives Kansas City’s Adam Schoenberg Recording ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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,…
Stereophile Magazine Reviews Adam Schoenberg
Order Now “The three works on the new, vividly recorded Adam Schoenberg hybrid SACD from Reference Recordings, recorded in 24/176.4 surround and played by the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern, are deliciously tonal, filled with color and energy, and irrepressibly optimistic. …Schoenberg simply dazzles and delights. Plus, anyone who writes a modern-day Pictures at an Exhibition is someone every music-loving audiophile will want to check out. …the [American Symphony] is variously colorful, exciting, unabashedly…
O’s Place Gives Fiona Boyes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Order Now “[Fiona Boyes has] got a meaty voice and a lot of good stories to tell backed by a honky tonk, blues groove. We enjoyed “Old and Stiff”, the swinging “Love Me All The Way” and “Love Changing Blues”. This is a solid, well-recorded (as always with Reference), and entertaining session as Fiona is truly Professin’ The Blues.” —Oscar Groomes, O’s Place Jazz Newsletter See the full review on OsPlaceJazz.com
Professin’ The Blues Around The World
Order Now Spanish blues radio program, La Hora Blues, praises Fiona Boyes and her new Professin’ The Blues recording in their Quarterly CD Review roundup, and they will be featuring the recording on their Friday, February 17th broadcast! “Fiona Boyes has gathered fourteen original blues and two covers “Baby Please Don’t Go” coming from Big Joe Williams and another song entitled “Face In The Mirror”. Fiona has recorded all songs in format of solo, duo…
Hi-Fi News Reviews Fiona Boyes
Order Now “Rural blues has always been a genre favoured by the audiophilie labels because a voice, a guitar and some foot stomping can prove incredibly visceral… Boyes ups the ante by possessing a deeply-textured, raspy voice that contrasts with her fingerpicking and she applies them to originals that made me think of the great Rory Block. … Boyes swings from gutbucket blueser to romantic with ease, and the sound is as deliciously natural and…
Is Adam Schoenberg the American Sibelius?
Order Now Classical-Modern Music Review‘s Grego Applegate Edwards asks, “Is Adam Schoenberg the American Sibelius?” in a new review for the Kansas City Symphony‘s latest recording: “Is Adam Schoenberg the American Sibelius? Maybe. I haven’t heard such ravishingly beautiful, unabashed orchestral lyricism since the Finnish master put notes to paper. That is, on Adam’s new album of works American Symphony – Finding Rothko – Picture Studies. The Kansas City Orchestra under Michael Stern gives us…