Archive for Ron Schepper
Textura Reviews Teach Me Thy Statutes
Canada’s Textura magazine has a new review for PaTRAM’s Teach Me Thy Statutes recording: “The rich sonorities generated by the male voices makes for a stirring and oft-haunting result, and even a listener coming to the Russian monastic style of singing for the first time will in all likelihood be captivated by this collection of Orthodox sacred music. … Though the singers assembled for the recording came from three ensembles, a marked unity of purpose…
Textura Finds Joy in Quotations and Homages
Textura Magazine published a rave new review for Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages recording: “Rare, not to mention refreshing, is the classical recording that balances seriousness with humour. Certainly one composer who embodies the principle is Tom Flaherty, whose two pieces bookend the release. Their origins bespeak a scholarly mind at work, but as homages they’re delightfully irreverent, flamboyant even… As irreverent as it might be to root a composition in material by The Velvet…