Compact Disc Recordings
Now Available from Telarc:
The Singing Rooms
Jennifer Koh, violin
Robert Spano, conductor
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Jennifer Higdon: The Singing Rooms
"The Singing Rooms," a violin concerto with an equally important part for chorus, was sparked by a request from violinist Jennifer Koh, for whom Higdon had previously composed a sonata with piano called String Poetic (2006). The piece is part of a commissioning consortium with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra with funding through grants from the NEA and the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.
Reviews & features
classicstoday.com
Classical Candor
cleveland.com
Available from Cedille Records:
Rhapsodic Musings
21st century works for solo violin
Elliott Carter
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Augusta Read Thomas
John Zorn
When Jennifer Koh performs new music, she invests "her entire heart and soul" in the enterprise (San Francisco Chronicle).
Koh's playing is sure to win new fans for Carter's Four Lands (1984-2000), a series of ingenius miniatures commemorating fellow musicians; Zorn's mystical Goetia (2002), eight occult incantations using the same sequence of 277 pitches; Thomas' blazing Pulsar (2002), which the composer describes as a "passionate, urgent, seductive" musical journey of sef-discovery; and Salonen's chaconne-like Lachen Verlernt (2002), a mini-drama that unfolds with sounds "both furious and strangely gorgeous" (Los Angeles Times) —accompanied by a video from celebrated graphic artist Tal Rosner.
Reviews & features
The New York Times
The New York Times
BBC Music Magazine
The Strad
IndyStar.com
MusicalCriticism.com
Classics Today [also
a Feb 2010 Disc of the
Month]
Daily Herald
Fanfare Magazine
The Whole Note
Chicago
Tribune [CD of the week]
Classical Voice of New England
Grammy Nomination for
Best Chamber Music Performance!
String Poetic:
American Works for Violin and Piano
Jennifer Koh, violin
Reiko Uchida, piano
World Premieres of works by Jennifer Higdon and Lou Harrison, plus music by John Adams and Carl Ruggles.
Reviews & features
BBC Music Magazine
Strings Magazine
Gramophone
Denver Post [10 classical albums that mattered in 2008]
The
New York Times
Philadelphia
Inquirer
San Francisco
Chronicle
The Oregonian
Toronto Star
allmusic [also
listed in The
AllMusic Classical Editors’ Favorites of 2008]
Classics
Today
Chicago Magazine
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Schumann
The Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Jennifer Koh, violin
Reiko Uchida, piano
Playing and recording the Schumann Sonatas is one of my most personal projects to date. Schumann’s music has always compelled me as a musician and a listener for as long as I can remember. Schumann’s music is the most human with its viscerally haunting, obsessive, tender and vulnerable extremes. One can connect a lifetime of experiences - birth, love, hate, death - into every phrase of his music. These disparate experiences are tied together into one life - one phrase - one movement - one sonata - in Schumann’s music.
A single phrase is like a poignant memory that returns and with each visit is reborn more vividly, more passionately, more tenderly than before. — Jennifer Koh
Reviews
The
New York Times
Fanfare Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle
Audiophile Audition
Time Out Chicago
Reuters/Billboard
Denver Post
OC Register 2007 Top Ten Classical CDs
Time
Out Chicago's Marc Geelhoed: 2007 Top 10
Portraits
SZYMANOWSKI
Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
MARTINU
Violin Concerto No. 2, H. 293
BARTOK
Two Portraits, Op. 5
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Reviews
The Vancouver Sun
Chicago
Tribune: John von Rhein's Best of 2006
The Want List: Fanfare Magazine
Audiophile Voice
Audiophile
Audition
Classics
Today
New
Jersey Star-Ledger
New
Jersey Courier-Post
Henry
Fogel in Auditorium
Listen to the Weekend America radio review RealAudio
file • website
Violin Fantasies
with Reiko Uchida, piano
"What a truly sensational disc this is! Awards are often given for best instrumental, orchestral, vocal, chamber music discs. I find Cedille Records CDR 90000 073 simply one of the few great CDs." — Audiophile Audition
Reviews
Time
Out New York
New
Yorker
Chicago
Sun-Times
Interview with NPR's Robert Siegel…
Jennifer Koh: Solo Chaconnes
"Now here's imaginative and illuminating programming for you… [a] winning, beautifully engineered disc." — ClassicsToday.com
Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Spoleto Festival Orchestra
Richard Hickox, conductor
Recorded live at the 2001 Spoleto Festival, Italy.
Klami - Whirls, Act 1
Uuno Klami
Violin Concerto, Op. 32
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
