For over four decades, Frank Salomon Associates artists have been recognized as among the world's very best.
2009 was no exception, with recordings and performances on multiple "Best of the Year" lists. Here are a
few:
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Best New Recordings 2009
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Sir Simon Rattle
Grammy Nomination-Best Orchestral Performance
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra)
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, La mort de Cléopâtre
Susan Graham; Berliner Philharmoniker
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Leon Fleisher
Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 414, K. 488, K. 242 (with Katherine Jacobson Fleisher); piano and conductor
First two-hand concerto recording in over 40 years
Sony
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Richard Goode
Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concerti
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer
Nonesuch
Gramophone 'Record of the Year' Nomination
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Richard Stoltzman
RAGOMANIA: Music of William Bolcom & Clare Fisher (Marquis)
Debussy: Maid with the Flaxen Hair (Parma) - Preloaded on Windows 7
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The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Brahms Trios: Vol. 2
Koch
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kampa Quartet
The Best of Czech Classics String Quartets
Smetana Quartet - Panocha Quartet - kampa Quartet
Supraphon
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Telemann. Brockes-Passion René Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi
Featured in « Choc of the year 2009 » in Classica France, December 2009
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Best New Works of 2009
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Alon Goldstein
Avner Dorman: "Lost Souls - A Piano Concerto" (written for Alon Goldstein)
Premiered with Michael Stern conducting the Kansas City Symphony.
[click here to read the Nov. 25th Kansas City Metropolis review]
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Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Sergio Assad: "Interchange" for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra (written for the LAGQ); Premiered at the San Antonio
Guitar Festival. Telarc recording forthcoming in March 2010.
"a resounding success and a tremendous musical experience". (seattlest.com)
"The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote", a dramatic adaptation featuring visuals and music heard in the time of Cervantes,
created by The LAGQ and performed with actors John Cleese/Phil Proctor; Premiered at the Santa Barbara Symphony Guitar
Festival.
"this fresh take on Cervantes conspired to be a clever, zany and tuneful distillation of and re-imagined context for a
classic epic. Mission accomplished".
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The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson
Trio
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Septet (written for The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Miami String Quartet);
Premiered at the 92nd Street Y (New York).
"...a magnificent Septet written for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and Miami Quartet....Here was what seemed like a
full orchestral sound, as Zwilich opened with a quote from her Trio followed by another from her Quartet No. 2...It is an
utterly substantial 26-minute work". (Gil French, American Record Guide, September/October 2009)
[click here to read the Jan. 18th South Florida Classical review]
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For more on why our artists have been called "the best"
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