Kavafian, Ida [Violin]

David Shifrin & Friends - works by Copland, Hartke, Kernis and Zwilich / Chamber Music Northwest

1 CD / Delos / 2012-07-31

Works: Aaron Copland: Sextet, for clarinet, piano & string quartet (arr. of Symphony no 2); Stephen Hartke: The Horse with the Lavender Eye, episodes (4) for violin, clarinet & piano; Aaron Jay Kernis: Trio...
Performers: Arm, Theodore; Ching, Daniel; Cho, Catherine; Cox, John [Horn]; DePonte, Niel; Feves, Julie; Gindele, Joshua; Heard, Cornelia; Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Kuhns, Sally Nelson; Largess, Joh...
Conductors: ; Wilson, Ransom
Ensemble: ; Chamber Music Northwest

'... a score truly inspired by a tragic event (9/11) and one that is likely to transcend it.' - Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine...continue...

Frederica von Stade in Duets, Arias, Scenes & Songs

4 CD / Newton Classics / 2012-05-29

Works: Robert Schumann: Botschaft ("Nelken wind ich und Jasmin"), for soprano voice, alto voice & piano (Spanisches Liedersp; Das Glück (" Vöglein vom Zweig"), song for voice & piano (Lieder-Album...
Performers: Blegen, Judith [Soprano Vocals]; Brehm, Alvin; de Peyer, Gervase; Glickman, Loren; Katz, Martin; Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Lesser, Laurence; Maria, Joel Del; Phillips, Daniel; Schwarz, G...
Conductors: Bernardi, Mario; Davis, Andrew

Born in 1945, Frederica von Stade - who auditioned for the Met on a $50 bet - is considered one of the world's most accomplished...continue...
Recording information: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (08/1977/07/1978); National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada (08/1977/07/1978); Studio No. 1, Abbey Road, London (08/1977/07/1978); Columbia...continue...

Webern & Brahms / Chamber works with clarinet / Stoltzman

1 CD / Vivace Records / 2011-04-12

Works: Anton Webern: Quartet for clarinet, saxophone, piano & violin, Op. 22; Marty Krystall: Improvisations (3), for tenor saxophone & piano; Johannes Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, O...
Performers: Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Krystall, Marty; Serkin, Peter [Piano]; Stoltzman, Richard [Clarinet]

World-famous musicians offer reissues of performances done in 1974, 1978 and 2000....continue...

Basso Profundo

1 CD / Vivace Records / 2011-03-08

Works: Sylvano Bussotti: Sensitivo, for contrabass (no 7 of Book 7); Leonard Rosenman: Chamber Music 4, for amplified bass, 4 string quartets & tutti bass ("Bass Concerto"); Robert Ceely: Hymn, duet for cel...
Performers: Bergamo, John; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Neidlinger, Buell; Serkin, Peter [Piano]; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Silverman, Stanley; Williams, Jan
Conductors: Kagel, Mauricio

A series of works by contemporary composers all written for and recorded by double bassist Buell Neidlinger and assisting artists....continue...

Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale

1 CD / Camerata / 2010-04-13

Works: Igor Stravinsky: L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale), for 3 actors, dancer & 7 instruments; Wynton Marsalis: Meeelaan, for bassoon & string quartet
Performers: Harris, Stefon [Vibraphone]; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Marsalis, Wynton; Shifrin, David; Taylor, David; Turkovic, Milan [Bassoon]

Meeelaan, a work for bassoon and string quartet, gets its name from Milan (Turkovic), the bassoonist who commissioned the work. Turkovic and Marsalis had collaborated...continue...

American Classics - Daugherty: Fire & Blood, Raise the Roof, etc / Ida Kavafian, Neeme Järvi, Detroit SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-08-25

Works: Michael Daugherty: Fire and Blood, for violin & orchestra; MotorCity Triptych, for orchestra; Raise the Roof
Performers: Becker, Michael; Hawes, Randall; Jones, Brian; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Parcells, Ramon; Thompkins, Kenneth
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

This recording celebrates three exciting works commissioned and premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orch. during Michael Daugherty's four years as composer in residence . Inspired...continue...

O'Connor: String Quartets no 2 & 3 / O'Connor, Kavafian, Neubauer, Haimovitz

1 CD / OMAC Records / 2009-05-26

Works: Mark O'Connor: Quartet for Strings no 2 'Bluegrass'; Quartet for Strings no 3 'Old-Time'
Performers: Haimovitz, Matt; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Neubauer, Paul; O'Connor, Mark [Violin]

"O'Connor, pied piper of a new brand of Americana, is a maverick. His goal is to make us fall in love with American music -...continue...

American in Rome - Beaser, Barber, Thompson, etc / Six for Five Wind Quintet

4 CD / Bridge / 2008-10-14

Works: Robert Beaser: Four Dickinson Songs, for soprano & piano; Samuel Barber: In the Dark Pinewood; Beggar's Song; Of that so sweet imprisonment; Songs (3), Op. 10; Randall Thompson: Siciliano, for barito...
Performers: Ahlbeck, Laura; Akahoshi, Ole; Arnold, Tony [Soprano Vocal]; Bagg, Jonathan; Baker, James; Berman, Donald; Druckman, Daniel; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Leisenring, John; Lim, Sunghae Anna; Macomber, Cur...
Conductors: Milarsky, Jeffrey; Yoo, Scott; ; Hoose, David
Ensemble: ; Collage Music Ensemble; Curiously Strong Wind Quintet; Opus One Piano Quartet; Trio Solisti

This four-disc collection contains works by 37 composers who composed these pieces while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. The earliest work dates...continue...

Baby Needs Mozart

1 CD / Delos / 2008-08-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Symphony no 29 in A major, K 201 (186a); Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Quartet for Strings no 22 in B flat major, K 589;...
Performers: Appel, Toby; Arimany, Claudi; Arm, Theodore; Graham, Robin; Helmrich, Dennis; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Munday, Kenneth; Newman, Anthony; Rampal, Jean-Pierre; Ritter, John Steele; Rosenberger, Carol [P...
Conductors: ; DePreist, James
Ensemble: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Shanghai Quartet

This CD has been developed to help stimulate and sooth babies, due in part to the latest research which indicates that classical music promotes learning...continue...

American Classics - Harbison: Piano Trio no 2, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-03-27

Works: John Harbison: Trio for Piano and Strings no 2; Gatsby Etudes, for piano; The Violist's Notebooks; Micro-Waltzes (10) for Piano; Cucaraccia and Fugue, for 4 violas; Suite for cello; Trio for Piano an...
Performers: Aizawa, Rieko; Duckles, Jason; Harbison, John; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Kreston, Anthea; Tenebom, Steven
Conductors:
Ensemble: Amelia Piano Trio

Born in 1938 into a musical family, John Harbison studied at Harvard, and with Roger Sessions at Princeton. He is one of America's most accomplished...continue...

An Irving Fine Celebration at the Library of Congress

1 CD / Bridge / 2002-09-01

Works: Irving Fine: Choruses (3) from Alice in Wonderland, 1st series; Sonata for Violin and Piano; Partita for Wind Quintet; Quartet for Strings; The Choral New Yorker, 4 choral patterns for chorus & piano...
Performers: Holt, Joseph; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Oppens, Ursula
Conductors:
Ensemble: Colorado Quartet; Zéphyros Winds

Five American Clarinet Quintets / David Shifrin

2 CD / Delos / 1998-01-01

Works: John Corigliano: Soliloquy, arrangement for clarinet & string quartet; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola & cello; Joan Tower: Turning Point, for clarinet, 2 violins, viola ...
Performers: Arm, Theodore; Hoffman, Toby; Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Neubauer, Paul; Peskanov, Mark; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Shifrin, David; Zori, Carmit

Ned Rorem: Winter Pages; Bright Music

1 CD / New World / 1992-03-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Winter Pages, for clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello & piano; Bright Music, for flute, 2 violins, cello & piano
Performers: Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Martin, Marya; Morelli, Frank [Bassoon]; Palmer, Todd; Schub, Andre-Michel; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Wadsworth, Charles

A Protrait of Frederica von Stade

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1989-01-17

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Jules Massenet: Cendrillon; Jacques Offenbach: La Grande-D...
Performers: Blegen, Judith [Soprano Vocals]; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Lesser, Laurence; Maria, Joel Del; Von Stade, Frederica; Wadsworth, Charles
Conductors: Bernardi, Mario; Almeida, Antonio de; Rudel, Julius; Pritchard, John

Brahms: Quintets / Shifrin, Chamber Music Northwest

1 CD / Delos / 1989-01-01

Works: Johannes Brahms: Quintet for Strings no 2 in G major, Op. 111; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op.115
Performers: Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Shifrin, David; Tenebom, Steven; Trampler, Walter

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Serkin, Stoltzman

1 CD / RCA Records / 1988-12-06

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Serkin, Peter [Piano]; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Stoltzman, Richard [Clarinet]

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, etc / Shifrin, Schwarz

1 CD / Delos / 1985-01-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K 622; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major, K 581
Performers: Appel, Toby; Arm, Theodore; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Shifrin, David
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra