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Review
American Record Guide May/June 2004
Guide to Records p.171
SVOBODA: Clarinet Chamber Works 1
Michael Anderson, Todd Kuhns; Kristen Halay, fl; Edward McManus, hn;
Thomas O'Connor, ob; Steve Vacchi, bn; Tomas Svoboda, (p) North Pacific
16--67 minutes
[...]
The notes are well done, and the sound is excellent. This is
Volume 1, chamber works with clarinet, so I assume we have a lot coming
down the pike. Michael Anderson is a fine player (as are all the
players here), and the Oregon Festival of American Music must be an
attractive place to be every year if the quality is this high. Svoboda
has much to offer, and while this is my first exposure to him, I can
definitely recommend it to newcomers. -- RITTER
Copyright 2004 by Record Guide Productions. All rights reserved.
Reviewed by Steven E. Ritter
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Engineer, Producer, Composer & NPM founder, specializing, since
1991, in out-of-the-main-stream, art music, concerts and mixed-media
events, recording, mastering, production, marketing and promotion of
classical, avant garde, world, jazz and new-world-age music, at
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-- artistically inspired, attitude-free professionalism from session
planning to market-ready productions with free consultation on all
production aspects: marketing standards in packaging, licensing,
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as written in an American Record Guide, Sept./Oct. 2001 review of Tomas Svoboda - Piano Works Vol.1 - NPM LD
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