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piano-small.jpg Blue Griffin Recording is an independent recording label and full service recording company. We are located in Lansing, Michigan.
Recording engineer and producer Sergei Kvitko has completed degrees in music from Russia and the US, including Doctorate in Piano Performance from Michigan State University. (Read more...)
BGR uses the highest quality equipment to achieve the superb sound that has been praised by Gramophone ("vividly detailed, vibrant sonics"), and American Record Guide ("The recording is close to ideal, rich but clear, truthful, and immediate") among others. (Read more reviews...)
Blue Griffin is a unique label as it follows creation of the CD from beginning to end, from setting up the microphones, recording, editing and mastering, graphic design and printing, to distribution, advertising and sales. (View full Catalog...)patch2-small.jpg

Since 2006-07 season Blue Griffin and First Presbyterian Church of Lansing sponsor the "FINE ARTS SERIES" . ( Read more about the series ...)

 

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Blue Griffin Recording, Inc.







Newsletter Issue 004
May, 2007


In This Issue
New Release: MOZART Violin Sonatas
More Great Reviews of "Votapek Plays Gershwin" and "Dances"
Sergei Kvitko at TapeOp National Recording Conference
Upcoming release:
 
Summer 2007
 
Gwendolyn Burgett Thrasher plays her Transcriptions of Bach's Cello Suites for Marimba
 
Dear friends,
Summer is almost here, that means more exciting recording projects are on the way.
Suren Bagratuni and Ralph Votapek are in the process of recording complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven. Sergei Kvitko and Ken Beachler are about to start recording their CD of French music for narrator and piano (Poulenc, Debussy and Satie)
 
CD by Spectral Trio (flutist Richard Sherman, oboist Jan Eberle & pianist Kim Schmidt) and Peter Miyamoto's Schubert recording are on the way to completion.
 
Please check our website often for news updates, reviews and new releases.
 
Just to remind you, we take spam very seriously. We are never going to share your e-mail address with anyone, and if you chose to unsubscribe from this newsletter, you may do so by following the link on the bottom of this e-mail. And please, forward this newsletter to a friend who might be interested in it!
Thank you,
Sergei Kvitko








New Release
MOZART: Violin Sonatas
Aaron Berofsky, violin & Thomas Sauer, piano 
 
An exquisite collection of four sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart performed by University of Michigan?s violin professor Aaron Berofsky and New Yorker Thomas Sauer. Berofsky?s interpretation of Mozart was praised as ?nothing less than profound? by Diario de Mallorca, Spain, and his performances were hailed as ??beautiful? true pleasure?? (Le Figaro,France), and ?first-rate? (The New York Times, USA). Timeless masterpieces, excellent musicianship, and gorgeous sound make this recording a must-have for music lovers and classical connoisseurs.
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More Reviews of "Votapek plays Gershwin" and "Dances"
Fanfare Magazine and American Record Guide review Blue Griffin CDs

Amercian Record Guide (May/June 2007)
"Here?s a program of miscellaneous cello music with a Dancesconcept that works! Altogether, this is satisfying programming combined with fine playing, clean technique combined with warmth of feeling." (Read full review)


 

American Record Guide (May/June 2007):
"Ralph Votapek plays the Songbook like ragtime, and it?s delightful that way?sounds perfectly natural. The pianist has real flair, and it is hard not to enjoy this... [Votapek] sounds terrific" (Read full review)

Fanfare Magazine (July/August 2007) writes:
"The song transcriptions are elegantly cheeky?spiky but never aggressive, ironic but never campy, and always alert to Gershwin?s harmonic genius. ... excellent release. Fine sound too" (Read full review)



Sergei Kvitko at TapeOpCon 2007
6th Annual Recording Conference in Tucson AZ, June8-10, 2007
Sergei Kvitko has been invited to be one of the panelists of the Classical Recording Workshop at the Tape Op Magazine's 6th Annual Recording Conference in Tucson, AZ. Other panelists include Jim Brady, George Massenburg, and James Fei.



 
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