classical music: Melissa Meell

classical music: Melissa Meell

classical music:

Melissa Meell

Melissa Meell, David Krakauer, ...

NY Philomusica Records, 1997

Almost Too Good
I often reflect on why classical music votaries settle for or even prefer old analogue recordings and what are euphemistically called "vintage" recordings. The reason seems obvious - many lovers of classical music are old and stupid, and still others love analogue ...

Hubert Laws Plays Bach for Barone & Baker
Douglas Romoff, Frederick Zlotkin, ...

Denon Records, 2005

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons/Fritz Kreisler: Concerto for Violin

Gil Shaham, Antonio Vivaldi, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1995

Must-Have Four Seasons
In a sea of Four Seasons recordings, Gil Shahmam's version is perhaps the one that stands out in my mind the most. His playing is flawless and tasteful: the vurtoso passages are never over-the top but they aren't blase either and he is very lyrical in the slow ...

White Moon: Songs to Morpheus

David Starobin, Dorothy Lawson, ...

Nonesuch, 1996

The right selections for the right voice
The theme of this music is Sleep and Dreams. The 'night setting' is reflected in a very interesting variety of songs, both old and modern. The ethereal quality of much of this music is well suited to Upshaw's silver toned voice, which expresses the fantasy and other ...

Beethoven: Quintet in E flat, Op. 16; Septet in E flat, Op. 20
Ludwig van Beethoven, NY Philomusica, ...

NY Philomusica, 1999

The quintet is for the same instrumentation employed to such great effect by Beethoven's predecessor, Mozart. Meg Bachman Vas makes her recording debut with New York Philomusica Records in an ebullient and poetic account of the work, lovingly supported and enveloped by her woodwind collaborators. Todd Phillips fully realizes the extraordinary ...

Mozart Bicentennial Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paige Brook , Robert Ingliss, Alicia Chapman , David Krakauer , Paul Gallo, Frank Perowsky, David Satz , Michael Finn, Jeffrey Marchand , Robert Johnson, Lawrence Di Bello , Todd Phillips, Adela Pena, Ellen Payne, Peter Sacco , Philipp Naegele , Ah Ling Neu, Leslie Tomkins , Melissa Meell , Gail Kruvand Robert Levin, ...

The program takes the listener across a very wide spectrum of Mozart's genius for sound and for instrumental variety. It opens with his next to last string quintet in the rarely used (by him) key of G minor. It is followed by the seldom performed Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, written to memorialize two esteemed brothers of his lodge. The last ...

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons/Fritz Kreisler: Concerto for Violin

Marji Danilow, Eric Bartlett, ...

Polygram Records, 1995

Must-Have Four Seasons
In a sea of Four Seasons recordings, Gil Shahmam's version is perhaps the one that stands out in my mind the most. His playing is flawless and tasteful: the vurtoso passages are never over-the top but they aren't blase either and he is very lyrical in the slow ...

A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives

Lino Gomez, Frank Morelli, ...

Polygram Records, 1994

Finest Ives Orchestral...
. With the especially fine Hopper cover-art, this is an all-time favorite Ives orchestral disc. Particularly nice in the crisp Fall season. Disc discontinued, but also reissued on Ives: Three Places in New England; Symphony no. 3; The Unanswered Question; A Set ...