Listen to Mozart Complete Sonatas & Variations For Piano & Violin Navona, 2025 9/10 The pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico and violinist Jacques Israelievitch pays tribute to Israelievitch 10 years after his death with these works that were finished just months before he passed away. “Violin Sonata No. 28 in E-Flat Major, K. 380” leads with … Read more
On May 13, clarinettist Ann Murdocca presented her graduate recital at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Mazzoleni Hall, featuring the world premieres of Coeur à Coeur , by Alice Ping-Yee Ho, alongside David Jaeger’s admirable Diptych – Lament and Defiance, both works for clarinet and piano. It’s quite unusual for a graduate recital to offer … Read more
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sämtliche Sonaten und Variationen für Klavier und Violine; Christina Petrowska Quilico, Klavier, Jacques Israelievitch, Violine; # Navona NV6697; Aufnahme 11.2014 + 02.-03.2015, Veröffentlichung 21.02.2025 (404′) – Rezension von Uwe Krusch ** (For English please scroll down) Fast ein Jahrzehnt nach dem Tod von Jacques Israelievitch, der als jüngster stellvertretender Konzertmeister in Chicago … Read more
More Rivers, the seven-movement solo piano suite composed by Frank Horvat and performed by its commissioner Christina Petrowska Quilico, is many things. It’s a work, first of all, its creator dedicated to the spirit of Canadian composer Ann Southam and her seminal Rivers; by his own admission, the work she did in the field of minimalist … Read more
The celebrated Canadian pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico has collaborated with composer and producer David Jaeger on a number of recordings over many decades. Games of the Night Wind is their third on the Navona Records imprint alone. The devotion of the pianist to the composer’s music is, predictably, personal. It speaks of long acquaintance with … Read more
Two titans of the Canadian music scene, composer David Jaeger and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, come together on Games of the Night Wind. Enhancing the appeal of their collaboration, the album intersperses twentieth-century solo piano works by Toru Takemitsu, Alexandre Tansman, and Henryk Górecki in amongst the dozen nocturnes by Jaeger. Arriving after last year’s Chamber Music … Read more
Navona’s enterprising collection of mostly miniatures for viola by Canadian composers focuses on the instrument’s more dour qualities, relieved only occasionally by bursts of energy and light. It also provides a showcase for Carol Gimbel, not only in her ability to inhabit Jaeger’s music but to restlessly pursue her own poetic nature. David Jaeger: Chamber … Read more
The violist Elizabeth Reid and the pianist Alison Bruce Cerutti come together for this passionate and meticulous interpretation of the work of the Canadian legend David Jaeger. The album begins with the stirring and warm “Sonata, Tristan And Isolde”, which unfolds across 3 graceful chapters of beauty and reflection, as Reid and Cerutti blend their … Read more
Duo Cavatine: NuagesKNS Classical David Jaeger: Chamber Music for ViolaNavona Records 2023 is shaping up to be quite the year for Canadian composer David Jaeger. Consider: in March Elizabeth Reid issued a superb collection of his viola music on Redshift Records, and now another set of chamber pieces for the instrument has appeared on Navona. Adding to … Read more
Nuages is another outstanding Canadian cello and piano disc, showcasing Noémie Raymond-Friset and Michel-Alexandre Broekaert respectively, collectively known as Duo Cavatine (KNS Classical KNS A/121 duocavatine.com). The title for this debut disc, which translates as clouds, comes from its centrepiece, producer David Jaeger’s Constable’s Clouds for solo cello. I spoke in my February column about a reworking of this piece … Read more