Fanfare Magazine Interviews Candlewood Digital in Sept/Oct Issue
The September/October 2010 issue of Fanfare Magazine, one of the leading classical recording review publications, features a substantial interview by well-known critic Jerry Dubins with CanDig producer/engineer Richard Price. Titled "Richard Price on Burning the Late-Night Candle at Candlewood Digital", it touches on many aspects of Candlewood's activities. This is the first time in the magazine's 33-year history that a recording firm has been featured. The magazine can be found on better newsstands everywhere, or at www.fanfaremag.com.
Candlewood Featured on Lavry Engineering Website
The website of Lavry Engineering, one of the most respedcted names in high-end pro audio, currently features a lengthy article about Candlewood Digital, including interviews with Richard and Wayne. The author states that "both musicians and record label clients alike have developed a high comfort level with Candlewood Digital, due to their ability to travel nationwide and deliver pristine recording, editing and mastering projects afterwards". CanDig engineers have used Lavry's state-of-the-art high-resolution converters exclusively since the inception of Candlewood Digital. We are proud of our association with Dan Lavry and his company, and delighted to be featured on their site.
Recording of the Month for Music of Barbara Harbach, Vol. 5
Congratulations to composer Barbara Harbach! Her MSR Classics release Music of Barbara Harbach, Vol. 5: Vocal Music has been named "Recording of the Month" by MusicWeb International. Featuring soprano Stella Markou, it was produced and engineered by Candlewood at the University of St. Louis. Says MusicWeb critic Bob Briggs:
"Don’t miss this disk for it is something very, very special. The performances are excellent, committed and vibrant...in excellent sound." Candlewood is proud to be part of this historic series featuring an important living American composer. Next up in the series is another Candlewood production: Volume 6: Chamber Music.
New Candlewood Productions
Upcoming projects to be produced and engineered by Richard and Wayne for commercial CD release include music for piano, 4-hands, of Schubert, with pianists Min Kwon and Robert Lehrbaumer, on the superb new Steinway at the Mann Center of Rutgers University (photo at left); a program of music for brass quintet and organ with trumpeter James Thompson, trombonist Philip Swanson, and organist Barbara Bruns, to be recorded at St. John's Church in Gloucester, Massachusetts; a Schumann recital by pianist Alberto Reyes at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, following up his exceedingly well-received Chopin CD of last season; Bach's Goldberg Variations, with pianist Avner Arad, also at the American Academy; rare works for soprano, violin, and piano, recorded at Vassar College's Martel Recital Hall (pictured at the top of this page) with Christine Howlett and the Chatham-Wood Duo (Holly Chatham, piano, and Patrick Wood, violin); new works of composer William K. Brehm, at the American Academy; and more.
On the live front
Summer brings live concert recordings from the Windham Chamber Music Festival, featuring the
Sarah Jane Cion Trio, Elmar Oliviera, and the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under conductor Robert Manno; the Imani Winds, featured at Maverick Concerts; Christine Howlett leads not only her Vassar College Choir and Vassar College Women's Chorus, but the Cappella Festiva chamber choir as well; Drew Minter conducts the Vassar College Choir with orchestra and soloists in Handel's Israel in Egypt; the Danbury Concert Chorus and Danbury Symphony Orchestra under Ariel Rudiakov perform Dvorak's Stabat Mater; the Biava Quartet premieres Richard Wilson's String Quartet No. 5; Eric Dale Knapp leads the New Jersey Choral Society in
Fauré's Requiem and the world premiere of Requiem by Joakim Seidevall, as well as the Connecticut Choral Society in Rutter's Requiem; Arthur Sjogren also has multiple groups under his baton: the Pro Arte Singers, in their 37th season, feature works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Rossini, and Charis Chamber Voices, featuring music of Batten, Convery, and Bach; the Grammy Signature award winning choirs and bands of Greenwich High School perform, conducted by Patrick Taylor and John Yoon; the Westchester Symphonic Winds enjoy their second season under music director Curt Ebersole at the Tarrytown Music Hall; and much more!
Retrospective: Alec Wyton
Candlewood Digital has been selected to restore, evaluate, and remaster historic tapes of the great American organist, composer, choirmaster, and church musician Alec Wyton (1921-2007). Many of the tapes come from Mr. Wyton’s twenty years at the helm of the music program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York; unreleased and unheard for many years, they were in the private collections of the Wyton family. Richard Wyton, the artist’s son, will be executive producer of the project. Candlewood engineers have completed similar archival restoration and remastering projects for John Browning, Leonard Pennario, John Solum, Blanca Uribe, and the composer Viktor Kalabis (see below!), among others.
Viktor Kalabis Edition
A major new retrospective has been released on MSR Classics:
spearheaded by virtuoso American flutist John Solum, and in partnership with the venerable Czech label Supraphon, Candlewood is proud to be remastering a remarkable survey of the music of the late Czech composer Viktor Kalabis.Three CDs will feature an all-star lineup including
Václav Neumann, Josef Suk,
Jiří Bělohlávek,
Karel Šejna, Zuzana Růžičková (the composer's widow), the Czech Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Soloists, and the Suk Trio. Curious? Follow this link for more on this still relatively unknown master.
In the Editing/Mastering Rooms
Two-piano works of Mozart, with the Pierce-Jonas Duo joined by Paul Freeman and the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra: Zorba's Dance, a collection of short works for piano by Greek composers, with pianist
Dino Mastroyiannis; the ongoing complete Stravinsky and Schoenberg series for Naxos, with conductor Robert Craft and the Philharmonia of London, continue with Persephone, the Concerto in D, and the Concerto for Two Pianos; sonatas and trios for clarinet, cello, and piano, with the Pierce/Aomori Duo joined by cellist Daniel Barrett, recorded at Lefrak Auditorium at Queens College; works for flute and organ by the Marianiello-Reas Duo, recorded in Chattanooga; Haskell Small's epic Lullaby of War, for Naxos Records; a new traversal of the Bach cello suites with soloist Mary Costanza; French music for flute, piano and harpsichord from the 17th and 20th centuries with baroque and modern flutist Don Hulbert; Bach, Bloch, and Hindemith with pianist Joshua Pierce, Kirk Trevor and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Volume 6 in the acclaimed Music of Barbara Harbach series of CDs on MSR Classics, recorded in St. Louis; new and vintage projects from Music Minus One, Classic Jazz, and Inner City Records, and more!
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