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The two-cd set 'Aaron Rosand in Norway', available from VAI Music, has been given top honors as Best Classical Concerto Album in the 2006 JPF Music Awards. We understand that there were 25,500+ albums and 350,000+ songs entered for the awards in 2006, and that they announced nominees in 81 album and 67 song categories from over 70. The Just Plain Folks Music Awards are entirely volunteer run but are already the largest and most diverse music awards of any kind in the world. In their nomination notification letter they wrote:
"We couldn't be more proud of and impressed with this year's slate of nominees. . . JPF is a 40,000+ member grassroots music organization for artists, songwriters and industry professionals, focused on networking, education, support and the inspiration of our community peers. We're completely free and 100% volunteer run. We started in 1998 with 60 members and have grown to become one of the largest music organizations in the world. We welcome all genres of music, all levels of experience and if you scroll through the categories you'll see we leave practically no stone unturned. Our primary directive to all judges in every round is "Does It Move You?" All music is blind screened and judged solely on it's own merit. Every song and album is listened to throughout each of the 6 rounds it went through to get nominated (Yes, that's a LOT of screening!). The folks nominated this year obviously moved a lot of people! Congrats to all of you again.
The awards show is scheduled for Saturday, November 4th 2006, in Santa Ana, CA. (Near Disneyland).
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"..one feels in the presence of a master... Rosand soars aloft with skin-tingling emotional potency... highly recommended." |
"One of the true aristocrats of the modern violin, Aaron Rosand is captured here in his mid-to-late
1970s peak via Norwegian Radio recordings of outstanding quality of their period. Listening to these bracing live
performances one feels in the presence of a master whose tonal purity and ringing intonation is worthy of comparison
with the likes of Milstein and Ferras, and whose subtle use of portamento is very much in the Rabin and Perlman class. "These performances, some of them taken from concerts and some from broadcasts,
date from 1974 to 1980. They capture Aaron Rosand in his prime recorded in fine sound with
good orchestras and sensitive conductors. Every now and then a release comes along that reminds you
what a superb violinist Aaron Rosand is, and this is one of them. All these performances
are so good that if you only had them and no other recordings of the works, you wouldn't be
missing much. Rosand supplies all the tonal richness, nuance, and stylistic sensitivity that these
works need. I'd say the only dog in the lot is the Violin Concerto by Klaus Egge, and not because of Rosand's performance.
The music just isn't interesting. Everything else, though, is wonderful." More news and reviews will be posted as they are received by our webmaster.
"For sheer poise and technical sophistication his Havanaise deserves a place alongside Szeryng's 1969 classic
(Phillips), while his Lalo Symphonie espagnole (the full five-movement
version) passionately glitters and swaggers in a way to rival even the adrenalin-saturated Stern-Ormandy
barnstormer from the mid-1960s (Sony). Rosand soars aloft in the indelible second theme of
the third movement with skin-tingling emotional potency.
"An added inducement to purchase is provided by Klaus Egge's full-scale, post-Romantic Violin Concerto.
Anyone who enjoys the Walton, Barber or Nielsen concertos should find this fine work's combination
of flowing lyricism and pyrotechnical brilliance particularly congenial. In his accompanying notes, Rosand
explains that he spent much of 1974 learning it at his Italian home, and the electrifying result can be savoured here.
"As part of the same 1975 series of concerts, Rosand gave some recitals with Robert Levin, but sadly
Ole Bull's ravishing Seterjentsens Sontag is all that remains. His Zigeunerweisen may not possess the machine-gun
precision of some studio accounts, but the palpable sense of a live occasion unfolding more than compensates.
This is highly recommended."
--Julian Haylock, The Strad, October 2005
American Record Guide Says...
CD Review
"All of these performances are so good
that if you only had them and
no other recordings of the work,
you wouldn't be missing much"
--Magil, American Record Guide, 2005
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