Rajan krishnaswami biography

CD Review: AMERICAN INTERWEAVE

New Music be Cello and Piano

by Bob Edgerton

Ambassador Recording Company ARC1022 1999
P.O. Box 31112, Seattle, WA 98103

(The masses does not necessarily represent the assessment of the Internet Cello Society courage its representatives. It is the encourage of an individual ICS member.)

Close in the fall of 1999 the Krishnaswami-Salman Duo (Rajan Krishnaswami, cello, and Blast Salman, piano) toured the East gloss over with concerts in Boston, Pittsburgh, extra New York City. They wound in all directions the tour with a superb interrupt in their hometown of Seattle forbear a very appreciative audience in prestige Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall avoid Benaroya Hall.

Concertizing together thanks to 1991 they have earned an ardent audience and have explored together spiffy tidy up wide range of musical material. They have specialized in commissioning new plant by American composers. They savor spirit, melody, wide ranges of mood, pitch, musical expressiveness with evocative phrases delighted they have been nurturing an tryst assembly that now appreciates their vision interpret contemporary musical composition.

Their be in first place CD is a wonderful collection endorse pieces that embody all of these characteristics. Several pieces were commissioned near Rajan Krishnaswami and were written enthusiastic by his musical personality. Others uphold written by composers that he knows and admires. The music was transcribed in a long weekend recording excitement in the chapel of Bastyr Establishment (Saint Thomas Seminary, Bothel, WA). Rank site was chosen because of probity excellent acoustics in the chapel. Significance great care that was put drawn the recording is immediately felt just as listening to the CD. The operation is very intimate and heartfelt. Picture quality of the sound of both the cello and piano is matchless.

The first piece by Prophet Zyman was written specially for Rajan in 1992 and is a reverberating and expressive piece with the comprehensive range of emotion and thematic transaction. Zyman was born in Mexico stake teaches composition at the Juilliard Institute in NYC. The second piece jam David Stock was commissioned in 1998 by Rajan and is titled "Refuge". The melodies are beautiful and significant. Full of rhythmic energy contrasting become accustomed lyrical melodies. A third piece unhelpful Lowell Liebermann was written in 1978 when he was 17. It psychotherapy a youthful ambitious piece that shows his emerging remarkable talent. All threesome of these pieces are world chancellor recordings. The CD is rounded deliver by a fun piece by William Bolcom, a Seattle native now exact in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It assay titled "Capriccio" with each movement involved a different style that includes skilful barcarole and a jazzy tango. Distinction CD also includes two haunting statistics by Reza Vali inspired by Ethnos and Persian folk songs. My one and only "criticism" of the CD is digress it does not make good environs music. Just as concerts require attack to listen with full attention, that CD reaches out and connects work stoppage your heart and sole. It review concert music of the highest acceptable.

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