Grammy Winner - Best Classical Solo CD - John Browning - Barber: Piano Music
Grammy Winner - Benny Carter - Harlem Renaissance
Grammy Nominee (Best Classical Piano Recording) – Martha Marchena
Grammy Nominee (Best Classical Recording) – Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Grammy Nominee (Best Folk Recording) – Harvest Home
Grammy Nominee (Best Classical Producer of the Year) - Gregory K. Squires
Grammy Nominee - Robert Craft - Stravinsky: Firebird
Grammy Nominee - Colin McPhee - Dennis Russell Davies
Grammy Nominee - Awadagin Pratt - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Grammy Nominee - Robert Craft - Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Grammy Nominee - Benny Carter - Hank Jones Duo
GRAMOPHONE
Sound Dreams - Sue Kyung
Song
"[the]
Bach pieces come across with fine sensitivity to phrasing, style and
sonority."
Senku - Piano Music by
Composers of African Descent - William Chapman Nyaho
"...played
with superior expressivity, rhythmic vivacity and kaleidoscopic shading...The
humanity of the music
and Nyaho's gripping performances kept my ears glued
to this disc"
J.S.Bach: Two Faces of Genius -
Linda Burman-Hall
"...this
is one of those recordings whose intent transcends simple enjoyment...
Gregory Squires sound is …honest and uncompromising…forcefully capturing the timbre of [the] instrument"
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
September
2002 – Editor’s
Pick: Record of the Month
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Awadagin
Pratt
"Good
that EMI have found a recording style to match the playing
– intimate rather than brashly immediate, and
warm in tone.
All round… this is an impressive achievement."
Lou Harrison: Orchestral Music
"First
rate sound throughout"
Record of the Year Award - The Birth of the Rhapsody in Blue
November 1997 Best of the Month
Robert
Craft / Philharmonia Orchestra - Stravinsky: Firebird
J.S.Bach:
Four Concertos - Orchestra of St. Luke's
"The
sound is luminous"
Hovaness: Mysterious Mountain &
Harrison: Second Sound
American Composers Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies
"... a purling, shimmering package."
Berlin: Piano Improvisations by Dick Hyman
"...handsomely
recorded... a winner."
Haydn: The Seven Last Words - Orchestra of St. Luke's / Julius Rudel
"The playing is smooth, the recording expert."
Rachmaninov: Paganini Rhapsody - Philharmonia Orchestra / Julius Rudel
"The
sound…is also
noteworthy…It offers a very realistic soundstage
and focused, accurately reproduced timbres."
Peter Mennin: Concerto
– Albany Symphony / David Alan Miller
"Stunning,
well-recorded performance. This disc is enthusiastically recommended"
Germaine Tailleferre -
Porter String Quartet
"The
performances are all excellent, and the sound is especially satisfying: full,
clear and spacious."
J.S.Bach: Violin Sonatas -
Nathan Milstein
"EMI
has reissued them in a sonic splendor more awe-inspiring than that of many new
recordings"
Harris & Gould: Albany Symphony –
David Alan Miller
"[Gould’s Third Symphony] bristles with urgency and vitality from start
to finish…
The Albany Symphony’s
performance is thrilling…[and] the recording…is spectacular.
This one’s a
stunner."
J.S.Bach: Two Faces of Genius - Linda
Burman-Hall
"[An]
attractive program...The performances shine...[because of] her excellently
conceived
and executed ornamentation and virtuoso additional passagework-the lightning
fast 16th notes she adds...
in the Concerto's third movement...are the most memorable. ...Burman-Hall is an exciting and imaginative artist"
Flute Music of Robert Baksa
- Katherine Fink
"This
is optimistic music...Fink and DiFelice are fine
collaborators... DiFelice [uses] a fine, lyrical
touch...
Fink shapes melodies with breadth of color and clear direction. She has a
crystal-clean sound and a nice light vibrato."
Music for Strings –
Symphony Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
"The
remasterings are gorgeous"
CLASSICAL CD REVIEW
Take 9 - American Horn Quartet & Horns of
the New York Philharmonic
"Horn
playing throughout is positively dazzling, particularly in the Candide Overture,
a tour-de-force of horn virtuosity...the sound is outstanding, brilliantly
capturing
the glistening sound of massed horns. Gregory K. Squires...has done a
magnificent job."
Gould: Symphony No.2 - Albany Symphony Orchestra
/ David Alan Miller
"Kudos…to Gregory K. Squires who produced and engineered this collection
impeccably."
Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik - Orchestra of St. Luke's / Julius Rudel
"...have
never heard it better performed... than on this record."
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Philharmonia
Virtuosi / Richard Kapp
"The
quality of the recorded sound couldn't be improved. Everything is clear,
natural, vibrant, as real as you can imagine. Even if you already own the Four
Seasons, do what you have to do to find this CD. You're missing a rare treat
--
and one of the year's best recordings -- if you don't."
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Philharmonia
Virtuosi / Richard Kapp
"How
do you pick a 'Four Seasons' out of more than 50 available recordings?
Easy. Just buy this one."
Telemann: Essercizii Musici - The Aulos Ensemble
"...
a different sort of perfection, one with no shortcomings... an
outstanding
recording... it is difficult to find words adequate to describe its
endless
astonishments."
THE
SENSIBLE SOUND
The Military Band - Concert Arts Symphonic Band
/ Felix Slatkin
"The
[remastered] sound…emphasizes clarity and
brilliance, with sparkling highs,
lucid mids, and solid but not overpowering
bass.."
IN
TUNE
McPhee: Orchestral Collection
- Dennis Russell Davies
"Superbly
played and recorded collection. Sensational!"
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