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  • Latin Grammy Nomination for desde Estudios a Tangos

    Latin Grammy Nomination for desde Estudios a Tangos

    Urlicht AudioVisual is pleased to announce that desde Estudios a Tangos, featuring violinist Elmira Darvarova and legendary tango pianist and arranger Octavio Brunetti, has been nominated for a Latin Grammy®!

    The CD was released in September of last year, just days after Octavio’s unexpected death following a brief illness. We are humbled that this disc commemorates a greatly missed champion of tango music at the peak of his abilities in a partnership with one of his very favorite musical collaborators.

    desde Estusios a Tangos

    Ástor Piazzolla
    6 Études tanguistiques • Introducción al Ángel • Night Club 1960 • Milonga del Ángel • Vardarito • Resurreccion del Ángel • Revolucionario

    Elmira Darvarova, violin
    Octavio Brunetti, piano

    Recorded January 19, 2013 at Gill Chapel, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
    Engineered and edited by John C. Baker
    Produced by Gene Gaudette

    Urlicht AudioVisual UAV-CD-5991

    Available from Amazon

  • ‘Put Up Your Dukes!’

    ‘Put Up Your Dukes!’

    One of Amazon’s top classical reviewers, Ralph Lockwood, declares a winner:

    [Violinist Elmira] Darvarova conquers all the challenges like a true “Champ.” Muhammed Ali’s famous boast to “float like a butterfly [so many suave and elegant moments!] and sting like a bee” (when punch and intensity are required) would be an apposite analogy.
    This is a sheer KNOCKOUT performance!!
    Come on all you Concertmasters out there: start twisting your conductors’ collective arms and batons to program this voluptuous and engaging concerto. There is an audience hungry for this music.

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    Vernon Duke

    Violin Concerto (1940-41)1
    Sonata in D for violin and piano (1948-49)2
    Etude for violin and bassoon3
    Hommage to Offenbach2
    Capriccio Méxicano2

    Elmira Darvarova, violin

    Scott Dunn, 1conductor and 2piano
    1ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    3Kim Laskowski, bassoon

    Produced by Elmira Darvarova, Scott Dunn, and Erich Hofmann
    Executive producres: Kay Duke Ingalls and Gene Gaudette
    Co-executive producer: Nancy Burgin

    Urlicht AudioVisual UAV-CD-5990

  • ‘Deeply Loveable Music’

    ‘Deeply Loveable Music’

    Arts Desk reviews Pascal Rogé et ses amis | Poulenc:

    There’s far more to this composer than breezy high spirits, and anyone encountering his music for the first time through this disc would get an unusually balanced impression of Poulenc. Les Biches and the Concerto for Two Pianos aren’t the whole story. … Excellent performances of deeply loveable music, captured in rich, velvety sound.

    Read the full review here.

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    Downloads available from Amazon and iTunes.

  • The Music of Gustav Mahler – Issued 78s, 1903-1940

    The Music of Gustav Mahler – Issued 78s, 1903-1940

    This collection of every known commercially issued Mahler recording from 1903-40 is one of the most important Mahler issues in recent decades and is very strongly recommended indeed.” — Robert Matthew-Walker, International Record Review, Dec. 2013

    Epic… Excellent transfers and exhaustive notes.
    – Gramophone

    This impressive collection of early — very early — Mahler recordings includes symphonies led by the likes of Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eugene Ormandy and Willem Mengelberg, often in interpretations more willful and changeable than we are used to today.
    – Zachary Woolfe, “2014 Holiday Gift Guide: Best Music,” The New York Times

    • The most comprehensive collection ever assembled of Mahler’s music as issued on 78s between 1903 and 1940 — every such recording listed in Péter Fülöp’s Mahler Discography
    • New transfers by Ward Marston and Mark Obert-Thorn
    • Detailed notes on the music, the recording artists, and revelatory information about performances of Mahler’s music prior to World War II by Sybille Werner
    • Full texts and translations
    • Super-value price

    Produced by Gene Gaudette
    Special thanks to Henry-Louis de La Grange

    CD Edition: Urlicht AudioVisual UAV-5980
    No longer available, limited to an edition of 1000 copies

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