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  • July 2023

    Now mastering Tianqi Du's exquisite new recording of four Bach Keyboard Concertos

    Now mastering Tianqi Du's exquisite new recording of four Bach Keyboard Concertos - D minor (BWV 1052), A major (BWV 1055), D major (BWV 1054) and F minor BWV 1056) with Jonathan Bloxham conducting the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields.  Recorded in LSO St Luke's, released on the NAIVE label. https://naiverecords.com/tianqidu

  • July 2023

    Recording sessions were held in MCO5 Studios, Hilversum, with Dutch-Korean pianist Gile Bae

    Recording sessions were held in MCO5 Studios, Hilversum, with Dutch-Korean pianist Gile Bae - https://gilebae.com/ - in music of Bach - Italian Concerto, Toccata in e minor, Toccata in c minor, and Schumann's rarely heard Humoresque.  Bösendorfer sent a new prototype piano for the sessions, beautifully prepared and tuned by Martijn van Dijk.  Michael Fine produced the sessions with engineer Erdo Groot.  Post-production has already begun on this very beautiful album.

  • 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.