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 Click on CD to puchase from MSR Classics | Shostakovich, Concerto no. 1, Allegretto Tchaikovsky, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Theme |
 Click on CD for link to Amazon.com | Dvorak, Cello Concerto, Allegro Bruch, Kol Nidrei |
 Click on CD for link to Amazon.com | Kodaly, Sonata for Solo Violoncello, Allegro maestoso ma appassionato Hindemith, Lebhaft sehr markiert |
 | Haydn, Concerto in C Major, Moderato Haydn, Concerto in D Major, Allegro |
 | Brahms, Scherzo, Allegro molto Ravel, Modere |
September 23, 2007 - CD of the Week - KBAQ 89.5 FM Click here to listen to
radio segment "Kim Cook is a fine player, and from what I have learned in the past week or so, a great pedagogue at her studio at Penn State" "we do deserve to hear her out here and everywhere. Her recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto will be heard on KBAQ from now on, but to get a chance to know her facile playing it would be best through hearing her play Zoltan Kodaly's Sonata for cello. All three pieces are beautifully played, but the Kodaly really is a remarkable piece, and Kim Cook has, I think, made a definitive recording of it. Silence is as much a part of music as the notes are, and Ms. Cook leads us to those silences, those places to take a breath, amid some real pyro-technics in playing, in the melancholy phrases, that as you listen, you realize, this really does demand something of the player in the offhand left-hand pizzicato that often happens in the Kodaly. It really is a tremendous piece and she plays it beautifully." Sterling Beeaff, KBAQ Radio, Phoenix, AZ |