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CLASSICAL NOTES: Autumn offerings famously follow the Philadelphians
By:JUDITH WHITE, For The Saratogian

Just as I began to write this column, I received an e-mail from fabulous flutist Jan Vinci, who teaches at Skidmore saying she has a new CD leon fleisher being released by Albany Records: Global Flute leon fleisher Premieres and Rare Gems (Albany Records), available at Amazon.com, FluteWorld.com, and on iTunes.

I havent yet heard the recording, but based on what Ive heard Jan play in the past, it will be well worth your listening time. You can read about her at www.janvinci.com, and you can hear her perform live at Skidmore on Nov. 9, as a guest performer in a concert featuring flutist Gary Schocker.

Last month in this column, I mentioned a new release I |hadnt yet heard by pianist Natlaie Zhu. Her husband, Philadelphia Orchestra violist Che-Hung Chen, delivered her CD to me just before the close of the orchestras summer residency here, so Ive now had the privilege of hearing her first solo recording, Images.

The CD includes the original piano version of Mussorgskys Pictures at maturantske obleke Exhibition, sending me back to my textbooks yet again to learn about when and how that composers work was transformed into one of the publics favorite orchestral works.

After hearing Zhus recording, I marvel that Ravel thought it necessary to rework the piece for orchestra. Zhus playing beautifully tells the story of the paintings by Mussorgskys friend, Viktor Hartmann, with a palette of pianistic colors, and she shows a musical understanding beyond her years.

Im always fascinated when tiger attack recordings of artists performing within my memory range of their live performances in this region, or hearing two different artists or ensembles perform the same work. Its like a hearing test: what was different? How was it different? Which did I like better, and why?

A recent Deutsche Gammophon recording of Brahms String Quartets brought this issue to mind. Pianist Leon Fleisher gives a definitive performance of Brahms Piano Quintet with the Emerson Quartet brian wilson this CD - recording within months of his once again losing use of his right hand due to focal dystonia.

And just a month ago, pianist Emanuel Ax played this same Brahms masterpiece with Chantal Juillet, Gautier and Renaud Capucon, and Che-Hung Chen for the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival. I wish I had a recording of that magnificent thank you note from santa so I could compare the two.

Then again, a well-known violinist leon fleisher the Philadelphia Orchestra recently advised me (nicely) that I should never compare a recording to a live performance, and I think hes probably correct. Once youve listened to a recording several times, its very difficult not to subconsciously impose that mind-set of music to what you hear being played live in a music hall.

Albany Symphony Orchestra will offer sever all opportunities for me to test my comparative listening skills this season, with David Alan Miller conducting several works that Ive reviewed recently in performances by other ensembles.

ASOs Oct. 27 program at the Palace Theatre in Troy will feature erhu soloist Betti Xsang playing the achingly beautiful Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao.
In Schenectady two seasons ago, violinist Gil Shaham played that same concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. On that same October program, the ASO will perform Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, which the Philadelphia Orchestra played to perfection here as its final piece carmen bryant its 2007 summer season at SPAC.

Musical premieres are refreshing, and challenging, in that listeners have nothing with which to compare the music heard. Ive been listening this week to a recording of Behzad Ranjbarans Cello Concerto, played by Paul Tobias with JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia Symphonic Orchestra on a CD titled The American Cello (Albany Records).

SPACs 2005 Composer-in-Residence and a former Yaddo resident, Ranjbaran brought his family back to Saratoga during the final week of the Philadelphians stay here this summer, while working on a piano concerto to be hadrian s wall by Jean-Yves Thibaudet with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the spring.

Ranjbaran was shadowed closely by his son, Armand, who now is a freshman composition major at Juilliard, where his father teaches. Armand himself has already earned awards for his music, including a summer of study last year at Tanglewood. (Ive already asked him to write a cello concerto for my daughter to perform, but it turns out we have to stand in line&)
Juilliard is a tough nut to crack for music students, and the schools well-earned prestige has been added to a new program - the Academy - that will partner in a groundbreaking new residency program this year with Skidmore College.

will feature young, extraordinarily talented members of the Ensemble ACJW (Academy, Carnegie, Juilliard and Weill), who will be in residence at Skidmore in both October and February.

The first performance of Carnegie Premieres at Skidmore will include Carnegie Hall-commissioned works by composers Bright Sheng and David Bruce. The free performance by Ensemble ACJW will be presented in leon fleisher Filene Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Friday, pressradioamerica.blogspot.com 5.
Judith White is a freelance writer and music reviewer. Classical Notes is published the second Sunday of each month in The Saratogian. Contact her at Mightymiz@aol.

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CLASSICAL NOTES: Autumn offerings famously follow myhotmy.blogspot.com Philadelphians
By:JUDITH WHITE, For The Saratogian
09/17/2007

Autumn is a great time for catching up with what the regions musicians are playing and recording, and for spending some time learning more about the music you hear.

- Flutist Jan Vinci has a new CD, Global Flute Scape: Premieres and Rare Gems. Vinci teaches at Skidmore, where she will appear in a concert featuring flutist Gary Schocker on Nov. 9.

-Pianist Natalie Zhu’s first solo recording, Images, includes a beautiful rendition of the case shiller piano version of Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition.

-Pianist Leon Fleisher and the Emerson Quartet michael klein a definitive performance of Brahms Piano Quintet on the CD â€SPiano Quintet in F Min / Complete String Quartets (1, 2, 3).”

-Carnegie Hall Premieres at Skidmore College presents the Ensemble ACJW (Academy, Carnegie, Juilliard and Weill) performing Carnegie Hall-commissioned works by composers Bright Sheng and David Bruce in a free concert leon fleisher Skidmores Filene Recital Hall on Friday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m.

-Soloist Betti Xsang Troy joins the Albany Symphony Orchestra for an achingly beautiful performance of Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao on Oct. 27 at the Palace Theatre. The program also includes Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

-Paul Tobias, JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia leon fleisher Orchestra play Behzad Ranjbarans Cello leon fleisher on the CD The American Cello. The premiere of a piano concerto by Ranjbaran, SPACs 2005 Composer-in-Residence and a former Yaddo resident, will be performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the spring.

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