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...)
“Brazilian Soundscapes. 21st Century Music for Flute and Piano” is a world premiere recording and celebration of exciting new music that explores new sonorities, challenges the performers with intricate rhythms and exposes the listener to a wide range of expressions. Performed by international prizewinner Brazilian flutist Danilo Mezzadri in collaboration with pianist Elizabeth Moak, this CD includes works by Januibe Tejera, André Mehmari, Ricardo Tacuchian, Liduino Pitombeira, Paulo Dantas, Maurício Ribeiro, and Márcio Steuernagel.
As
a rule, he only does things he can’t help. “When I’m obsessive, I’m
compulsively obsessive,” he said with a grin. Because of Kvitko’s
obsessions, the music world is listening closely to the sounds coming
from his third-floor home studio, perhaps the most unusual room in
Lansing. Kvitko lives with his partner of 13 years, businessman Jim
McClurken, in Potter House on Cambridge Road, near Moores River Drive.
“He’s
going to put Lansing on the recording map,” MSU cello master Suren
Bagratuni said. “He’s a great contribution to our musical world here.”
“He’s an unusual guy, a Renaissance man,” remarked Richard Sherman
principal flutist with the Lansing Symphony.
Blue Griffin is proud to present this unusual collection of rarely recorded works for two cellos by Couperin, Barriere, Haydn and Handel performed by an international duo of Suren Bagratuni and Ling-Yi Ou Yang.
At the end of each year American Record Guide, one of the oldest and most respected classical music publication in the world, compiles the Critics’ Choice list of the best recordings of the past year. The list can be found in the January-February issue of the magazine. The best recordings of the year 2008, according to the critics, include CDs of such luminaries and classical super-stars as Placido Domingo, Rene Fleming, Herbert von Karajan, Angela Hewitt, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Marta Argerich, Murray Perahia and others.
This year the list also includes Sergei Kvitko's recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition from his self-engineered and self-produced album “Of Lands and People Far Away”. The critic who selected the recording is Mr. Donald Vroon, the Editor of American Record Guide himself.
New CD from mezzo-soprano Patricia Green and pianist Midori Koga includes songs by Canadian women composers: Emily Doolittle, Barbara Pentland, Isabelle Panneton, Alice Ping Yee Ho and Kati Agócs. Click on the cover image for more information and sound samples
Blue
Griffin Recording is an independent recording label and full service
recording company. We are located in Lansing, Michigan.
