Archive for San Francisco Classical Voice
San Francisco Classical Voice Features Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players
Jeff Kaliss has a fantastic spotlight, feature, and review in San Francisco Classical Voice for the Florentine Opera’s world premiere recording of Carlisle Floyd: Prince of Players: “Don’t ever suppose that Carlisle Floyd can’t learn and showcase new tricks, just because he’s the veteran dean of living American composers. Hearing the newly released recording (on San Francisco’s Reference Recordings) of his latest opera, completed in 2016 (when Floyd was 90), will divest you of any such assumption.…
San Francisco Classical Voice Interviews Manfred Honeck
San Francisco Classical Voice interviews Manfred Honeck before his performances of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Shostakovich’s Suite on the Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti with the San Francisco Symphony. See the excerpt below and visit SFCV.org for the full interview: At one point in that same Times piece, you said, “I’m an instrument … to make my profession more honest.” When has the profession not been honest? What I meant, probably, was that you have to…
Delibes Reviews Pour in over the weekend
Reviews for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia came pouring in over the weekend! Check out a few quotes below: Gramophone: “…This pairing of suites from the composer’s ballets by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the first and still arguably best-standing ballet orchestra in the US, avoids both extremes. Under current music director Martin West, the orchestra revels in the immediacy of the music without ever losing sight of the overall narrative. So too…
Some praise for World Keys!
Last month, Reference Recordings artist Joel Fan performed in Oakland, CA, and a few of us from Reference Recordings were able to make it out to the concert (Read our feedback here). But of course, we weren’t the only ones there! Today we wanted to share an article from the San Francisco Classical Voice written leading up to the concert. Another reason we like the article so much is that she talks about our first…
Britten’s Orchestra Review – SF Classical Voice
Today we would like to share a review of Britten’s Orchestra from the San Francisco Classical Voice. The review is one of their suggested Christmas items: Britten’s Orchestra; Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern (Reference Recordings RR-120) Britten’s OrchestraThe latest release from the Bay Area–based, audiophile label Reference Recordings is one of the finer introductions available to Benjamin Britten’s orchestral works. If there’s anything that the composer’s famous Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra demands, it’s…
Joel Fan Concert Review – SFCV
The following is a review from the San Francisco Classical Voice, it can be found in it’s original form by clicking here. Or just continue to read on: Well-Deserved Fan-dom Old First Concerts By Marianne Lipanovich Joel Fan can be described in any number of ways. He’s a brilliant pianist who made his performing debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11. He’s an artist who has won praise for his technical expertise, lyrical…
Rameau pieces de clavecin en concert Review
Here is a review from the San Fransisco Classical Voice: When Baroque Nouveau’s new disc of Jean Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concert first came across my desk, a cursory glance down the playlist raised a perplexing question: Why did the group present the pieces out of order? There are five concerts in this collection, and the group orders them 4, 5, 1, 2, 3. Listening to the disc dispels any qualms with the…