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.
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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...)
The sound is wonderful, the program flawless, and the performances top notch. If you want to add some two-piano discs to your collection, you can do no better than by starting here. Steven E. Ritter
The Spectral Trio delivers a fine program of British, American and French works for this elegant chamber aggregation. Both performances and sonics are exemplary. (5 out of 5 stars) - John Sunie, March 17, 2008 Audiophile Audition
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION is a web magazine for music, audio, and home theater, that focuses on recordings of interest to audiophiles and collectors, with an accent on surround sound for music, and on all hi-res disc formats.
CDHot List is a review and recommendation service that is used by over 2,000 library music buyers each month. Here is Rick Anderson's review of Gwen Burgett Thrahser's "Marimba Suites":
This spectacular recording does two things: it allows the listener to hear these familiar works of Bach in an entirely new way, and also to hear the marimba in an entirely new way.
MOZART: Violin Sonatas, K 301, 304,376, 454
Aaron Berofsky; Thomas Sauer, p
Blue Griffin 143—70 minutes
Berofsky and Sauer play with exquisite taste and pay close attention to
bringing out the form and personality of each sonata. There is a lot to
be learned from these readings. Everything this duo does is musically
motivated, and every exchange of phrase is like an exchange of dialog.
There are no theatrics, no overt stylistic attempts to approximate
authenticity, and the main musical personality on this recording is
Mozart’s. Amercian Record Guide March/April 2008