This
Dynamic Duo has been delighting San Francisco Bay Area
audiences with their varied and inventive repertoire for
over 20 years. Now they can be heard performing previously
unrecorded pieces on this release. The program includes
works from Baroque oboe transcriptions to third-stream jazz
to a song cycle for voice, saxophones and piano in which
the Duo collaborates with which highly acclaimed
mezzo-soprano Stephanie Friedman, a featured singer in John
Adams' operas
Nixon in China
and
The Death of Klinghoffer.
Recorded in the excellent acoustics of the College of Notre
Dame's chapel in Belmont, California and engineered by Paul
Stubblebein of the Rocket Lab, this unusual and unique
recording has many special moments.
Now
available to purchase at
CDBaby.com
and
iTunes!
Sample Tracks
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Track List:
- Pièce en forme de Habanera / Maurice Ravel
- Sonata in Jazz / Werner Heider
- City Called Heaven / Negro Spiritual
- Shtetl Voices / Ivan Rosenblum
- Reflections on Raga Todi / Charlie Buel
- Sonata in F minor / William Babell arr. by Dale Wolford
- Lullaby-Wirth / Carl Anton Wirth
Reviews:
Jason
DuMars of
The International Saxophone
Page
says,
"This is some of the finest soprano playing that I have
heard in quite a while. . . don't let this CD escape your
collection!"
[See the entire
review.]
