“… I can enjoy it either way, especially in this performance thanks to Newkirk’s beautifully impressionist shades and colors.”
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It is the story of the American Dream, the story of innovation, of creativity and of the vast breadth of its landscape and the variety of its peoples, both native and immigrant.
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This fascinating album presents three interwar orchestral scores in transcriptions for solo piano. Newkirk draws her programme together with an erudite booklet note exploring the making of the American myth.
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Whole Heart reviewed and featured in VAN Magazine
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“All these passionate works reflect love and the great human experience. Whole Heart is a reminder of the collective challenges we face and the resilience and strength that live inside each of us.”
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The entire program captivates end-to-end. The thoughtfulness of the works themselves are matched by the dedicated brilliance of Claire Bryant and her cohorts.
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Newkirk delivers engaged and engaging treatments of all three pieces, with arguably her rendering of Still's Africa the highlight for bringing attention to this less familiar composition.
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What is American…”deploys the quartets formidable improvisatory skills to intriguing effect.”
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“Any way you might like to measure it, then, their feat is impressive.”
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…the string quartet pushes at the boundaries and prejudices about 21st-Century classical music…
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One of the things at which PUBLIQuartet excels is re-imagining classical material by incorporating improv, and there's no better illustration of it than its treatment of Antonin Dvorák's “American” Quartet.
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Jordan Bak’s debut album, Impulse, transports the listener into a viola dreamland from the very first note.
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What is American | Stellar review in The Whole Note.
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PUBLIQuartet’s “What Is American,” my favorite classical album of the year thus far.
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This sophisticated selection is considered and beautifully performed, Bak showcasing his instrument’s resonant power in solo and chamber works.
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But staples like Dvorak and Coleman are not “straight” arrangements; improvisation reigns on this album. Whether intended or not, it calls to mind that history, even with its rigor, is a reflective approximation; our past is as fluid – and often even more unfamiliar – as our present.
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The tapestry the six pieces form is multi-hued and stylistically rich.
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For his solo debut album, the Jamaican-American viola player Jordan Bak has put together a recital of daringly introspective music….
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The ghosts of history also permeate “Am I Born,” moving like a palimpsest.
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Jordan Bak Creates Immersive, Multi-Dimensional Soundscapes on “Impulse”
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