Showing posts with label recording. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recording. Show all posts

Monday, March 13, 2017

New Album Release Date Announcement! | The Schubert Series - Live - Part 1

April 8, 2017 | The Schubert Series - Live - Part 1


I'm thrilled to announce the release date of my new live album, The Schubert Series - Live - Part 1, which will be available starting April 8, 2017!

Release Date Concert

The release will correspond with An Evening With Charlie, the benefit concert on 4/8/2017 in conjunction with the Centralia College Foundation, where we will be raising money for the Charlie Albright Scholarship and the Charlie Albright Piano at CC!

The Series

The recording is the first of a three-part set of all-Schubert concerts given in Boston, which covers many of his piano masterworks: the last three sonatas, all of the impromptus, and the Moments Musicaux.  Each CD ends with an Albright improvisation as an encore.  Recorded and mastered by Thomas Stephenson, the concerts were met with great reviews: 

“I will be surprised to hear another performance at this level very soon. It was gripping, both spellbinding and spellbound, quite unlike most solo recitals I’ve heard over the decades.” 
- The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Tracks

Schubert Impromptus, Op. 90
Schubert Sonata in B-Flat Major, D. 960
Albright Improvisation

More Info

Physical CDs (which can be signed) will be available at concerts worldwide, and digital versions will be available everywhere including iTunes.

The album photography is by T.C. Elofson and artwork design is by Stel Creative.  Published and produced by CAPC Music.


Monday, January 23, 2017

Recording at the New Steinway Hall

Recording Time!

It has been a little while since I've done a recording for recording's sake, so it was great to be back at it.  The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation in New York runs the New York International Piano Competition, which I took part in back in 2006 (though at that point, it was a national competition).  

Each year, they commission a brand new piece of music from a composer, and decided to make a compilation recording of each commission from each biennial competition.  My year, Michael Torke wrote Bays of Huatulco (renamed Blue Pacific), which I was asked to record on the brand new Steinway Spirio piano, which is Steinway's amazing new player-piano.

The recording went great, and I'm looking forward to hearing how it turns out!  Check out some pics!