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NEW CD!
CD Release Date:
November 9, 2010!
Featuring Bach-Busoni, Schubert-Liszt, Chopin-Liszt, Liszt, and, a pair of dedications by Cortese and Schumann-Liszt!
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Recorded at Blue Wave Productions in Vancouver, BC
on February 6-8, 2010
Instrument: Fazioli 9'2" Concert Grand Piano
Recording Engineer: Ken Burke
Producer: Tien Hsieh
Label: Titanic Records
Liner Notes: Richard E. Rodda
Recording made possible by sponsors Blue Wave Productions and Showcase Pianos | FAZIOLI
"This program centers around the transcriptions of Franz Liszt. Liszt drew significant inspiration from the music of Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Bach. It is "mostly" transcriptions because Hsieh includes several original pieces of Liszt from Venezia e Napoli and a lovely, meditative piece of new music by Glen Cortese called Elegy (2008). I enjoyed listening to this recording while reading along the scores of the original works. The effect is that Liszt himself was in my living room, creating extempore fantasias on pieces he loved, or spontaneously transcribing and embellishing the music at sight.
Hsieh opens the program with Busoni's transcription of Bach's Toccata, Adagio and Fugue. In that transcription, Busoni expands on the Lisztian tradition. Hsieh plays with grace and energy. She has a keen ear for the music's architecture, and make the piano sing in every register."
American Record Guide, May/June 2011 (P. 209)
Benjamin Katz
"Hsieh's interpretation of Busoni's transcription shows just as much respect for Bach as Busoni did. Her approach to phrasing and dynamics is characteristically nineteenth-century; but that is what we should expect of a reading of Busoni..."
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September 2, 2011
Stephen Smoliar, Examiner.com
"Clearly rendered and intimately performed"
Sacramento Bee, March 18, 2011
Edward Ortiz
"...I am very pleased that she has returned with her impressively exciting accounts of the Bach-Busoni and also the Bach-Liszt Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, and the Schumann-Liszt "Widmung" (which was likewise an encore at the end of the 2008 Weill Hall concert). I still retain in my mind's ear beautiful performances of Beethoven's Op. 111 and Schumann's "Humoresque" at that recital.
In commenting upon this recorded anthology, I can reiterate that Tien Hsieh is a formidable virtuoso and also a magnetic musical persona... In terms of color, texture and concentration on detail, she immediately makes you sit up and take notice! The opening measures of the Bach-Busoni Toccata, slashing and sparely pedaled, along with the arranger's clever "Busonifications", recreate the facsimile of the original organ, with its characteristic squeal and visceral intensity. (I might add that the state-of-the-art fidelity of the recording further enhances the physical allure of this thrusting and appropriate interpretation). (Note too, Ms. Hsieh's precise articulation of the Fugue)."
Read the full review: New York Concert Review Inc.
Harris Goldsmith
New York Concert Review
February 25, 2011
"The Busoni and Liszt Bach transcriptions, as well as the Cortese piece, have the effect of solid pillars, with the song transcriptions providing a more lyrical contrast, and Hsieh's readings find links between Busoni and Liszt: she has a way of deploying accent and articulation that suggest the quirky personal charisma each pianist-composer must have had."
James Manheim, AllMusic.com
Click on the links below to see Tien's recent e-newsletters!
Issue No. 1: August 2009 -
Welcome to the first issue!
Issue No. 2: December 2009 -
Leaping into 2010
Issue No. 3: Fall 2010 -
Fall Conferencing
Issue No. 4: August 2011 -
Greetings from Tien's World
Announcing The Birth of a Music Festival!
Classical Masters Music Festival - Inaugural Celebration!
June 10-12, 2011
World-Class Artists Coming to Three Stages at Folsom Lake College
in Northern California
Concerts • Piano Competition for Young Pianists
Master Classes • Special Sessions
Check out www.classicalmastersmusicfestival.org for Applications, Schedule, Updates and more!
Tien Hsieh, Artistic Director
Click here for past events
Monday, November 14, 2011
El Dorado Community Concert Association
Solo Recital
7:00 PM
Union Mine High School Theater
6530 Koki Lane
El Dorado, CA 95623-4328
Tickets: $25, space available basis.
Program: Bach, Liszt, Schumann
http://eldoradocommunityconcerts.com
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
El Dorado Community Concert Association
Outreach Program
10:00 AM
Union Mine High School Theater
6530 Koki Lane
El Dorado, CA
http://eldoradocommunityconcerts.com
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Manteca Kindred Arts Concert Association
3:00 PM
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
910 North Street
Manteca, CA 95336
http://www.mantecakindredarts.com
Monday, January 9, 2012
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
APAP Showcase
3:00 PM
Steinway Hall
109 W 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Corner of 57th Street and 6th Ave (Avenue of the Americas)
Just up the street, 4 blocks, from Hilton New York
No tickets required
No reservations required
Limited seating
Cadence Arts Network: Booth 101
APAP|NYC 2012 Conference
April 4, 2012
M.A.N. Concert (Music at Noon)
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1300 N Street
(13th & N Street, facing Capitol Park)
Sacramento, CA 95814
http://www.westminsac.org/go/wms/westminster_life/Music/music_at_noon
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