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...)
Acclaimed cellist Suren Bagratuni, winner of the Silver medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and pianist Je-Ru Sun perform complete works for cello and piano by Schubert and Schumann. The CD includes Schubert’s Sonata for Arpeggione, and Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70, Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73, and Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102
The performer-composer relationship has proven to be an integral catalyst in the musical process that has brought forth masterworks time and again. This recording serves as a testament to a long and close collaboration between renowned composer Sidney Corbett and violinist Sarah Plum.
ABSCONDITUS offers the listener a rich and varied representation of Corbett’s music by presenting works that span a seventeen-year period, all but one of which are unveiled on the CD as world-premiere recordings. For this CD Sarah Plum is joined by esteemed colleagues who are advocates of contemporary music – mezzo-soprano Patricia Green, cellist Jonathan Ruck and pianist Timothy Lovelace. The title work, ABSCONDITUS, was written for Plum, and pays a direct homage to her long friendship with Sidney Corbett.
KALEIDOSCOPE: 25 Preludes and Fugues for PIANO and HUMANKIND By Israel Kremen. Irena Portenko, Piano
Representing a never-ending loop of ideas, emotions and styles that swirl in a relentless motion that is our life – Israel Kremen’s KALEIDOSCOPE strives to unite all that is around us with an open-ended invitation to the listener to become a part of the performance, as the intriguing title suggests.
Brought to life by acclaimed Ukranian-born pianist Irena Portenko and the attending audience in Pittsburgh in 2009, this is a live recording of the original, highly-successful, world-premiere performance.
The Sonata Album. Quentin Kim, piano
This recording follows pianist Quentin Kim’s debut CD “Romantic Tales,” that earned him accolades from the media, including American Record Guide which praised his “warmth that is always engaging” and exclaiming that “his range of emotion and color is extraordinary.” The CD includes four diverse sonatas: Beethoven’s famous “Appassionata”, Op. 57; Mozart’s luminous Sonata in B-flat major, K. 333; less known Sonata in E-flat major by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach; and the world-premiere recording of Mr. Kim’s own Sonata in G-sharp minor, an emotional journey full of symbolism and beauty, dedicated to Vassily Primakov.
American Landscapes for Guitar.Composed and performed by Brad Richter
(with guest artist David Finckel, cello)
This new collection showcases Brad Richter’s signature guitar style, with music and performances that have “an American hometown feel with a sophisticated European polish” (Boston Globe). In his compositions Brad “captures typical American themes and transforms them into imaginative original music” (Concertino). In addition to the works for solo guitar, this disc includes a compelling duo with the nine-time Grammy winning cellist of the Emerson String Quartet David Finckel.
BGR229. Tango and Snow. FOLIAS flute and guitar duo: Carmen Maret & Andrew Bergeron
New CD from Folias flute and guitar duo showcases Carmen Maret’s and Andrew Bergeron’s prowess as composers as well as performers, and features original works that highlight two compositional threads they have been developing since they met 9 years ago – their interest in tango music and their love of the great outdoors.
...unquestionably the best presentation I have yet heard of this work [The Toybox]. Beachler is a superb narrator and Kvitko a sensitive pianist... Their ensemble is like a great singer and pianist... They bring a life to the music and text that makes this one of the most outstanding releases to come my way in a long time. The sound of voice and piano is perfectly balanced. Each hearing brings to light another nuance, and everything works so well.
Debussy: The Toy Box & Poulenc: The Story of Babar
Blue
Griffin Recording is an independent recording label and full service
recording company. We are located in Lansing, Michigan.
