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Tucson Winter
Chamber Music Festival
CD Collection

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Our CD from the 2007 Festival

 

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Newly released, Philip Glass' "The Sound of a Voice"
(2006 festival) with Wu man (pipa), Lynn Chang (violin) ,Peter Rejto
(cello), Tara Helen O'Connor (flute), Gary Cook (percussion). This CD is
published by the Philip Glass Recording Archive
and Orange Mountain Music

 

Early 20th Century Chamber Music
for Piano & Strings
Recorded at the 2006 Festival

PHILIPP SCHARWENKA (1847–1917)
Piano Trio in C-sharp minor, Opus 100

OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879–1936)
Quintet for Piano and Strings

SERGEI TANEYEV (1856–1915)
Quintet for Two Violins, Viola, Violoncello,
and Piano in G minor, Opus 30

Tokyo String Quartet
Lydia Artymiw, Piano
Christina Dahl, Piano
Paul Coletti, Viola
Peter Rejto, Cello
Bion Tsang, Cello

Lynn Chang, Violin
Benny Kim, Violin

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Our CD from the 2005 Festival

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Our CD from the 2004 Festival

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Jennifer Foster, Soprano
• DEBUT •

Chamber Works with Voice

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Respighi • Ginastera • Rodrigo • Villa-Lobos
Tedesco • Ravel • Delage

 

 

Our CD from the 2002 Festival
Romantic Russian
Chamber Works
with Two Cellos

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Taneyev String Quintet for Two Cellos, Opus 14
Arensky
String Quartet in A minor, Opus 35, for Two Cellos

 

 

Our CD from the 2003 Festival
Contemporary Czech
Chamber Music

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Including 2 world premieres,
commissioned by
AFCM's Commissioner's Circle

Gemrot Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello
Martinu
Quartet for Oboe, Piano, Violin and Cello
Martinu
Duo No. 1 for Violin and Cello
Bodorova
Quintet for Harp and Strings

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'94 Festival CD liner notes

Brahms: String Sextet in G Major, Opus 36, with Benny Kim, Ani Kavafian,Cynthia Phelps, Randolph Kelly, Colin Carr, and Peter Rejto.
Shostakovich: Piano Trio in E Minor, Opus 67, with Ani Kavafian, Colin Carr, and James Bonn.

'94 & '95 Festivals CD liner notes

Mozart: String Quintet in G Minor, K 516, with Ani Kavafian, Benny Kim, Randolph Kelly, Cynthia Phelps, and Colin Carr.
Schurmann: Piano Quartet #1, with the Los Angeles Piano Quartet.

'95 Festival CD liner notes

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34, with the American String Quartet and Lydia Artymiw, piano.
Rorem: Santa Fe Songs, with Kurt Ollman, Sheryl Staples, Heiichiro Ohyama, Peter Rejto, and Lydia Artymiw.

'96 Festival CDs

Vol. 1,.....Liner Notes

Janacek: String Quartets #1 & #2, with the Prazak String Quartet.
Janacek: Sonata for Piano and Cello, with Josef Suk and Ralph Votapek.
Dvorak: "Four Romantic Pieces", Opus 75, with Josef Suk and Ralph Votapek.

Vol. 2 .....Liner Notes

Brahms: String Sextet in B Flat Major, Opus 18, with Ani Kavafian, Vlastimil Holek, Cynthia Phelps, Josef Kluson, Michal Kanka, and Peter Rejto.
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81, with Ralph Votapek, Josef Suk, Ani Kavafian, Cynthia Phelps, and Peter Rejto.

Vol. 3.....Liner Notes

Saint-Saëns: Fantasy for Violin and Harp, Opus 124, with Josef Suk and Katerina Englichová.
Tournier: Images for Harp and String Quartet, Opus 35, with Katerina Englichová and the Prazak String Quartet.
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, String Quartet, Flute, and Clarinet, with the Prazak Quartet, Katerina Englichová, Janice Tipton, and Patricia Shands.
Debussy: Trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp,
with Janice Tipton, Cynthia Phelps, and Katerina Englichová.
Absil: Silhouettes for Flute and Piano, Opus 97, with Michel Debost and Lydia Artymiw.
(Reviewed in Fanfare)

'97 Festival CD liner notes

Bartok: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (1938), with Carmit Zori, Patricia Shands, and Bernadene Blaha.
Harbison: Twilight Music for Horn Trio (1984), with Paul Rosenthal, Richard Todd, and Bernadene Blaha.
Dahl: Concerto-a-tre for Clarinet, Violin, and Cello (1947), with Patricia Shands, Carmit Zori, and Peter Rejto.
Parker: Pan Dreams for Flute and Piano (1989), with James Walker and Kevin Fitz-Gerald.
(Reviewed in Fanfare)

'98 Festival CD liner notes

Bartok String Quartet No. 2 Opus 17, with the Chicago String Quartet.
Schurmann: Piano Quartet No. 2 for Piano and Strings (1998), with the Los Angeles Piano Quartet.
Schulhoff: Sextet for Strings, with Carmit Zori, Violin, Ayako Yoshida, Violin, Katherine Murdock,Viola, Nicole Divall, Viola, Christopher Costanza, Cello, and Peter Rejto, Cello.

'99 Festival CD liner notes

Faure: Piano Quartet in G minor, Opus 45, with Benny Kim, Violin, Paul Neubauer, Viola, Peter Rejto, Cello, Ralph Votapek, Piano
Ernest Chausson: Piano Quartet in A Major, Opus 30, with Benny Kim, Violin, Paul Neubauer, Viola, Peter Rejto, Cello, Anne-Marie McDermott, Piano

2000 Festival CD liner notes

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Suite for voice and violin (only available recording), with Jennifer Foster, soprano, and Benny Kim, violin
Manuel Ponce: Sonata Breve (only available recording), with Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin, and Rick Rowley, piano
Alberto Ginastera: Pampeana #2 Rapsodia para Violoncello y Piano, with Peter Rejto, cello, and Lydia Artymiw, piano
Carlos Guastavino: Sonata para Clarinete y Piano (only US recording), with Patricia Shands, clarinet, and Lydia Artimiw, piano
Raimundo Penaforte: Quartetice (for four guitars and 'obligato et ad libitum' percussion), with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Raimundo Penaforte, percussion. World premier performance.

2001 Festival liner notes
20th Century Russian Camber Music

Igor Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat - Suite for clarinet, violin and piano, with Peter Zazofsky, violin, Igor Begelman, clarinet, and Bernadene Blaha, piano
Dmitri Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok for Soprano and Piano Trio, OP. 127, with Nadejda Shabanina, soprano, Alla Aranovskaya, violin, Leonid Shukayev, cello, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Quintet in G Minor for violin, viola, bass, oboe, and clarinet, Op.39, with Peter Zazofsky, violin, James Dunham, viola, Allan Vogel, oboe, Igor Begelman, clarinet, Deborah Dunham, double bass

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