Stony Brook Soundings, Vol. 1 <BR> BRIDGE 9318The estimable Escher String Quartet is the quartet in residence for the Department of Music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. This CD features the Escher Quartet in the premiere recordings of five new works four of them quintets featuring a guest artist. Reviews: Oscar Espina Ruiz plays the solo clarinet part magnificentlyquite a feat considering the difficulty of the piece. The range of dynamics, the interspersed trills, the octave

Excellent notes and full texts

and the CD’s title track provides a great jazzy ending to an excellent disc

Winners of both the First Prize and Amadeus Prize at the London International String Competition

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always interesting

“The sound is excellent and the notes are superb

Bridge Records launches Anne-Marie McDermott's Mozart Piano Concerto cycle with Vol

and was inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America's "Hall of Fame" in 2011

to contemplate that place

Dream Drapery is on BRIDGE 9295 and Joanna Kurkowicz's recording of violin works by Alfred Schnittke is on BRIDGE 9104

it's refreshing to hear how much care and imagination he lavished on music of intimiate personality for the instrument he played so splendidly

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