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  • February 2017

    Michael Fine has been named composer-in-residence for a new music festival - Classical Havana - to be held 18-23 April 2017

    Michael Fine has been named composer-in-residence for a new music festival - Classical Havana - to be held 18-23 April 2017.  The music director is Marco Madrigal. Three of Michael's compositions will be performed: Suite for Strings, Quartet Moments 2, and Tokyo Rain for Cello and Piano.  http://classicalhavana.welltempered.com/

  • January 2017

    Deutsche Grammophon releases our recording of the opening concert at Seoul's splendid new Lotte Hal

    Deutsche Grammophon releases our recording of the opening concert at Seoul's splendid new Lotte Hall (acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota. Maestro Myung Whun Chung conducted the Seoul Philharmonic in music of Beethoven, Saint-Saens and the traditional Korean 'Arirang.'  Michael Fine produced, edited, and mixed the recording.  Jin Choi was the recording engineer.

  • January 2017

    Decca releases our recording of Norman Krieger's Brahms Piano Concerto Nr. 2 and Piano Sonata 1.

    Decca releases our recording of Norman Krieger's Brahms Piano Concerto Nr. 2 and Piano Sonata 1.  The Concerto was recorded in Abbey Road Studios, London with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Philip Ryan Mann.  (LSO solo cellist Rebecca Gilliver played the third movement solo.)  The Sonata was recorded in Berlin's Jesus Christus Kirche.  Michael Fine produced and edited the recording; Wolf-Dieter Karwatky was the engineer. Steinway piano for both recordings provided by Gerd Finkenstein.  (For history and nostalgia buffs, we used the famed 'red-light' from sessions with Karajan and Furtwaengler!)

  • December 2016

    Paris' Salle Colonne was the scene of a new recording of Debussy's Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp with the world-class trio of flutist Emmanuel Pahud, violist Gérard Caussé, and harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet

    Paris' Salle Colonne was the scene of a new recording of Debussy's Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp with the world-class trio of flutist Emmanuel Pahud, violist Gérard Caussé, and harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet.  Pahud also recorded Debussy's Syrinx for what will be a new CD for Erato of the complete chamber works of Claude Debussy.  Sessions resume in Paris in March for the Violin Sonata (Renaud Capuçon) and Cello Sonata (Edgar Moreau).  The pianist will be Betrand Chamyou.  Michael Fine is the album producer/artistic director with Jin Choi, engineer.

  • December 2016

    Decca Records releases our recording of Mahler's Symphony 5 with conductor Shi Yeon Sung and the Gyeonggi Philharmonic

    Decca Records releases our recording of Mahler's Symphony 5 with conductor Shi Yeon Sung and the Gyeonggi Philharmonic.  The orchestra's first recording, it was made in Seoul's new Lotte Hall in August 2016 with Michael Fine producer, Jin Choi, engineer.