The Civic Symphony Orchestra Of Boston - Reviews gil shaham, violin; Andres Diaz, cello. At Harvard University, Sanders Theatre,Sunday afternoon. shaham, Diaz pull heartstrings http://www.csob.org/reviews.html
Extractions: THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2001 Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston Max Hobart, Music Director and Conductor At: Jordan Hall, Sunday By Richard Buell, Boston Globe Correspondent Thomas Oboe Lee, in his new Fourth Symphony ("War and Peace"), assigns the words, somewhat disconcertingly at first, to a soprano. Soon, however, you begin to notice that, because of the distancing this creates, the words work upon the listener quite differently. Those weren't certainly Owen, or Brooke, or Gurney, being portrayed onstage. Nor were they the fraught, standing-in-for-all-of-male-humanity generalizations Benjamin Britten foists on his soloists in the War Requiem. Soprano Peggo Horstmann Hodes sang - with poise, commitment, and palely pretty tone - in another mode altogether. Lee has obviously grasped the rhythmic life of these poems. He sees to it that the words tell. They never lack against cadences of natural English. He has a subtle way of thinning out the overall texture - not too abruptly - whenever the singer is in the foreground. Instrumental lines thread in and out, around and between. These instrumental lines, and for that matter what Lee does with the orchestra in general, don't have to be nearly as objective as the singer. His rat-a-tat-tat march music can be, on purpose, almost, but not quite, exasperating. At which point it turns improbably florid. Faux Shostakovich it isnt. And the composer has, it seems, listened well to the mellow pastoralism common to so much English music of the early 20th century.
New York Philharmonic: Maazel And Shaham Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Click here to hear a sound clip. Kodály Dances ofGalánta, Click here to hear Lorin Maazel, Conductor. gil shaham, Violin http://newyorkphilharmonic.org/attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum
PRMS.org > National Shows > Saint Paul Sunday > Master Play gil shaham, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano (recorded April 26, 2003) 305;FRANCIS POULENC FLUTE SONATAIII. PRESTO GIOCOSO Jeffrey Khaner, flute; Linda Mark, http://www.prms.org/national/sps/master_play.shtml
Extractions: MASTER PLAY Music from Saint Paul Sunday The Sunday Sessions What happens when a high-spirited piano virtuoso and a composer with a fiendish Lisztian wit join forces for a musical romp down the Yellow Brick Road? You get Jon Kimura Parker playing William Hirtz's "Wizard of Oz Fantasy"-a dazzling re-imagination of Harold Arlen's beloved film score. It was an instant hit with Saint Paul Sunday listeners, and it's now available on the series' latest CD, Master Play . Along with the "Oz" (which only Mr. Parker could pull off), Master Play Master Play follows the beautiful package design of Saint Paul Sunday's previous CDs and includes liner notes by host Bill McGlaughlin, who offers personal and musical insights into each performance.
Press Releases by turn featuring the violin, the piano and the movies. The dazzling GilShaham, recipient of a Grammy in 1998, will captivate audiences with his http://www.osm.ca/en/index_communiques_communiques_fiche.cfm?TheCommID=56
