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...)
Blue Griffin Records offers outlet for local classical talent By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Andrej Kurti (violin) and Viktor Izur (cello), “The Entertainers.” This is definitely the wild card in Blue Griffin’s deck, a freaky journey deep into the Slavic soul — including that incomprehensible corner that can’t stop obsessing over heavy American rock from 30 years ago. “Andrej and Viktor” are omnivirtuosos from the former Yugoslavia who are game for anything with a hook, whether it’s Scott Joplin, traditional Slavic dances, Rimsky-Korsakov or Pink Floyd. Who else would dare to forcibly repatriate the “Bohemian Rhapsody” to its homeland? You laugh, you groan, but by the time these madmen launch into an epic 10-minute fantasia on Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir,” you submit.
Blue Griffin Records offers outlet for local classical talent By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Suren Bagratuni (cello) and Adrian Oetiker (piano), “Music for Cello and Piano.” This introspective, rainy day recital brings together Swiss pianist Oetiker with MSU cello professor Bagratuni. The brooding Rachmaninoff Op. 19 Sonata is bookended by bittersweet pieces by Debussy (“Sonata in D Minor”) and Stravinsky (“Suite Italienne”). Every detail, especially in the quieter moments, is lovingly massaged to life, and the unicycle-tricky balance between cello and piano is deftly sustained.
Blue Griffin Records offers outlet for local classical talent By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Nicholas Roth (piano), “The Russian Album.” Here Roth sounds out a rugged range of romantic works from Scriabin (Sonata-Fantasy #2), Taneyev (Prelude and Fugue, Op. 29), Blumenfeld (Etude for Left Hand), and Rachmaninoff (Sonata No. 1), his barely-quivering pauses leaving just as deep an impression as his reckless, headlong tumbles.
Blue Griffin Records offers outlet for local classical talent By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Nicholas Roth (piano), “Schumann Novelletten, Op. 21.” Roth was something of a sensation when he studied under Michigan State’s Ralph Votapek in the ‘90s. In the first Blue Griffin release, he spreads his smooth technique over a set of exuberant pieces by a young and restless Schumann, and both seem as eager to briskly move things along as they are to impress.
Blue Griffin Records offers outlet for local classical talent
By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Peter Miyamoto (piano), “Chopin: Ballades and Fantasies.”
This disc is a great, big, steaming sacrifice to the rumbling god of Steinway, the most impressive of Blue Griffin’s recordings to date. It’s a showcase for the phenomenal pianism of Peter Miyamoto, formerly on the faculty at MSU and now based on the West Coast (apparently the Great Lakes couldn’t provide crashing waves big enough for his cover shot). Miyamoto’s Chopin is so good it makes the pupils dilate; it combines the restless glitter of moonlight with the tension of a suspension-bridge cable.
Blue
Griffin Recording is an independent recording label and full service
recording company. We are located in Lansing, Michigan.
