Karchin: Keyboards/Winds (Bridge Records)
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Read MoreBridge Records' latest Louis Karchin disc surveys recent solo and chamber works. Han Chen performs Karchin's 'A Jersey Reverie on New York Notes' alongside pianists Stephen Drury (Sonata-Fantasia) and Michael Stephen Brown, organist Carson Cooman, clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt, and the wind ensemble Windscape on the virtuoso Quintet for Winds.
"A healthy number of those scores make their presence felt on this recording of works featuring keyboards and winds. They reveal a composer with an inventive sense of narrative design and instrumental possibility, as well as the ability to convey musical messages with succinct elegance."— Gramophone
"A rewarding sampler of work by a consistently interesting composer, uniformly well-played and recorded."— MusicWeb International

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