Compact Disc Recordings

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.

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Reviews & features

The New York Times
Philadelphia Inquirer
San Francisco Chronicle
Toronto Star
Classics Today
Chicago Magazine
Cleveland Plain Dealer

Jennifer Koh: Schumann Sonatas for Violin and piano, Reiko Uchida, piano

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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

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

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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

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

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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