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  • April 2023

    Cellist Bion Tsang's new album with Scott Yoo conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra will be released in April 2023 by Universal Music.

    Cellist Bion Tsang's new album with Scott Yoo conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra will be released in April 2023 by Universal Music. The recording includes the world premiere of Josephine Knight's edition of Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto based on a close reading of the composer's manuscript.  Also on the recording, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and Andante Cantabile as well as two versions of Pau Casal's Song of the Birds, with orchestra and in Bion Tsang's solo cello version.  The COVID interrupted recording was produced by Michael Fine.

  • April 2023

    PBS 'Great Performances' in the United States will broadcast 'Schumann

    PBS 'Great Performances' in the United States will broadcast 'Schumann: Genius and Madness on April 14, 2023.  The program, part of the acclaimed "Now Hear This" series hosted by Scott Yoo, features a section filmed at our sessions in Glasgow for Bion Tsang's recording of the Schumann Cello Concerto in a new version by Josephine Knight including discussions between the artists and Michael Fine. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/how-other-composers-changed-schumanns-work-kf5dra/14735/
     
  • April 2023

    Kristiina Poska's superb performance of Michael Fine's Suite for Strings

    Kristiina Poska's superb performance of Michael Fine's Suite for Strings is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qyO_nvvHdTE  It was recorded in concert at the Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen's opening concerts of the 2023/24 seasons in Ghent's historic Bijloke, one of four performances.
     
  • April 2023

    Armenian violinist Lina Vartanova recorded Michael Fine's

    Armenian violinist Lina Vartanova recorded Michael Fine's 'For A Friend' with pianist Ekaterina Ayzenshtadt at GES-2, The Vaults Centre for Artistic Production with engineer Maksim Ignatev.  The piece, dedicated to Lina, was composed by Michael Fine in 2022.  https://youtu.be/b_HhrRFYAOs

  • April 2023

    Pianist Tianqi Du will record four Bach Keyboard Concertos

    Pianist Tianqi Du will record four Bach Keyboard Concertos for the Naive label with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Jonathan Bloxham in late April 2023.  The recording will be produced by Michael Fine at LSO St. Luke's.