Cadence Magazine Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Cadence Magazine
Arthur Gottschalk’s creative compositions for two and three instruments, with a 16-piece choir added on one selection, are presented on (1). The opening “Benny, Zoot, and Teddy,” begins in a spritely manner, with unexpected […]
Fanfare Magazine Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Fanfare Magazine
Although I enjoyed Arthur Gottschalk’s Requiem: For the Living (Fanfare 39:3), I am aware his music has received a mixed reception, specifically via my colleague Ronald E. Grames’ review of the self-same release in […]
David DeBoor Canfield Review: ART FOR TWO
Arthur Gottschalk is one of those composers who make me feel a bit guilty—guilty, because his music and reputation is such that I feel that I somehow ought to have encountered it before now. Fanfare readers may be ahead of […]
Fanfare Magazine Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Fanfare Magazine
Contemporary music is a borderless country, which leaves few –isms to follow and all of music history to serve as inspiration. You’d think we’d be swamped with diversity, but almost the opposite seems to […]
ART FOR TWO: Ciaccio and Berti play Gottschalk
Originally Published By: Fanfare Magazine
“Art for Two” is the title of a new Navona CD containing performances of the music by Amercan composer Arthur Gottschalk by Italian saxophonist Mario Ciaccio and his compatriot, clarinetist Sauro Berti. I was […]
ART FOR TWO: Music of Arthur Gottschalk
Originally Published By: Cinemusical
Arthur Gottschalk teaches at Rice University. His composition teachers include William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett. Over the past few years his music has been widely performed and recorded and […]
Keyboard And More
Originally Published By: Infodad.com
The piano is largely relegated to a supporting role in the music of Arthur Gottschalk on another (++++) Navona release. Saxophone and clarinet, individually and together, are the focus here, making the […]
Classical Music Discoveries Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Classical Music Discoveries
How can something as intimate as a musical moment shared between two people open up the door to endless possibilities? Discover the answer in ART FOR TWO, a collection of works by acclaimed […]
‘Review Graveyard’ Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Review Graveyard
Art for Two is a collection of works by composer Arthur Gottschalk, performed by Italian woodwind players Sauro Berti and Mario Ciaccio, accompanied by Naomi Fujiya on piano. The pieces were inspired […]
Arthur Gottschalk: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: JazzdaGama
Arthur Gottschalk is one of American music’s great originals, and a rare example of a contemporary composer who has succeeded in writing music that is at once thoroughly modern but also shamelessly […]
Midwest Record Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Midwest Record
It took Allen Toussaint to make it clear to us that there’s music in the streets, there’s music everywhere. Gottschalk took this to heart in that he finds inspiration everywhere from forbidden tunes to […]
Peter Burwasser Review: ART FOR TWO
The opening work on this lively program tests the boundaries of musical categories, featuring a thoroughly jazzy language. But before I ferry this release over to Michael Ullman’s The Jazz Column, the work needs to be considered in several aspects. […]
