April 2022

The COVID delayed sessions with cellist Sung-Won Yang

The COVID delayed sessions with cellist Sung-Won Yang, conductor Hans Graf and the London Symphony Orchestra finally took place at LSO St Lukes: the Cello Concertos of Robert Schumann and Sir Edward Elgar along with Bruch's Kol Nidre, Faure's Elegie and a new arrangement of Casal's Song of the Birds for solo cello, clarinet, and cello section.  The recording for Decca was produced by Michael Fine with engineer Jin Choi.  Post-production has already begun.

March 2022

Violinist Viktoria Kaunzner and pianist Oleg Poliansky team

Violinist Viktoria Kaunzner and pianist Oleg Poliansky team up to play Nikolai Medtner's Violin Sonatas 1 and 2 for Hännsler Classic, a recording produced by Michael Fine and recorded in Hannover's Leibniz Saal with engineer Wolf-Dieter Karwatky.  https://haensslerprofil.de/shop/sonstige-klassik/eurasian-gold/

February 2022

SONY Classics announces the March release of 'Finding Home'

SONY Classics announces the March release of 'Finding Home' - a collection of music by Aaron Copland, Michael Fine, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Serge Prokofiev - conducted by Philip Mann who leads Ensemble Bravura.  It includes three world premieres one of which, Michael Fine's Concierto del Luna, was commissioned especially for this recording and is performed by two renowned soloists: flutist Alexa Still and Grammy Award winning guitarist Jason Vieaux.  The recording was produced by Michael Fine in Hemmle Hall at Texas Tech University; Hideki Isoda was tonmeister.

February 2022

The concert world premiere of 'A Time of Uncertainties'

The concert world premiere of 'A Time of Uncertainties' by Michael Fine will be performed in Prague's historic Lobkowicz Palace by Emmanuel Villaume conducting the PKF-Prague Philharmonia on 9 June.  Villaume and the PKF performed Fine's Chamber Symphony in a televised concert in 2021. Michael Fine wrote A Time of Uncertainties in an airport lounge in the United States.  He was flying back earlier than planned, home to The Netherlands, after learning that his wife had entered a hospital’s intensive care unit, dangerously ill.  The doctor he spoke with was not optimistic.  He finished the piece moments before the flight was called.  Happily, his wife made a full recovery.   https://www.pkf.cz/en/2021-2022/l2-evening-with-emmanuel-villaume

January 2022

Our recording on Evidence Classics of Jae-Hyuck Cho's performances of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos