“The sheer musical imagination of the cycle always illuminates and illustrates the gentle, lyrical poetry. Throughout there is an appealing rhetorical fluency that piques the curiosity.”
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“a brilliant virtuoso display with heart”
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“Its two works—the multi-part water hollows stone in particular—are substantial pieces and ultimately won't be forgotten when the book on Weiser's career is someday written.”
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“Mulligan is in superb voice throughout. Sharing warmth and sympathy, fortitude and humility, strength and tenderness via naturally accented, clearly enunciated English and admirable legato, he gives us the full measure of these songs.”
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“…the three movements are Waves, a quietly roiling texture from which “phrase, melody and harmony” eventually emerge…”
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“The Akropolis Reed Quintet are at it again. What a terrific ensemble, and what a distinctive blend.”
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“Mulligan’s beefy, immaculately focused baritone is ideal, capturing the music’s inherent breeziness and relishing thenuances of the sophisticated poetry.”
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“…a fulsome debut from American cellist Bryant.”
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Hymns for Private Use receives a four star review in BBC Music Magazine.
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“…the sound mass expands noticeably when their strings blend into a shimmering, glorious mass out of which individual voices emerge.”
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“To me Leisner’s transcriptions sound perfectly idiomatic and might very well have been approved by Schubert himself…”
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“Bryant’s playing suggests a flood of pent-up conversation, the different voices winding down as the work proceeds.”
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What Now review on Belgium music website Rootstime.
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“It’s almost chamber music stirred gently with a bluegrass spoon. These fellows have a good grip on entertainment with classical instruments. Highly recommended.”
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“… 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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