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Suryodaya: “Magnificent Violin and Tabla interplay”

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In Suryodaya, the late Badal Roy made a triumphant return with his signature Indian drums, having played with legends like Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. This audiophile recording, made in the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, also features the incomparable Robert Gupta, who demonstrates his mastery of the Nathan Milstein Stradivarius violin from 1716…. Not only is Robert Gupta the youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but he is also a Senior TED fellow; the executive director of Street Symphony (which brings music to homeless mentally ill people); and the real-life violin teacher of Nathaniel Ayers, whose story was sensitively portrayed in the major motion picture The Soloist. Suryodaya takes us on a journey through time and across continents, from the opening Indian raga for violin in tabla (Raga Jaunpuri), to Medieval Europe with Biber’s famous Passacaglia, and to John Harbison’s Four Songs of Solitude and the Pereira suite Continue Reading →

Organ virtuoso Richard Unfried[¹] reviews Jung-A Lee’s Private Organ Recital

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Organ virtuoso Richard Unfried[¹] reviews Jung-A Lee’s Private Organ Recital in Walt Disney Concert Hall. For the concert or recording organist, the bench of the Glatter Götz/Rosales pipe organ’s stage console in the Walt Disney Concert Hall must be, like its theme park namesake, “The Happiest Place on Earth.” It is hard to imagine a finer instrument, and it inspires more than one’s best performance from all who play it. Jung-A Lee is no stranger to this organ, having released her first recording on it (Amazing Grace) in 2015. She is also seasoned in the art of conquering larger pipe organs through her extensive concertizing around the globe. The recording session for A Private Organ Recital was attended by fifteen lucky people including the executive producer and underwriter, his select guests, and the recording technicians. While some of the twelve tracks on the CD are take one, Jung-A asserts that Continue Reading →