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Oren Fader "Serenade is set to Mr. Harrison's "Serenade for Guitar", with Oren Fader as the fine guitarist seated onstage..." "On his new CD First Flight...Oren Fader serves up a nourishing feast of new music...Fader's skill, particularly his conductor-like understanding is palpable on every track. The ultimate strength of this CD, however, is it's form: the program has the consistency of one large 12 movement sonata, yet every piece shines with its own personality and intellectual gusto. Have credit cards ready and go to www.cdbaby.com." "Indeed, Oren is a guitarist who seems to have his hand in just about everything interesting. In addition to a prospering solo career, he frequently performs in duos, ensembles, commissions new music, and even tours with the Mark Morris Dance Company." "Oren Fader gave the guitar part a polished, energetic performance that was precisely matched to the tape sounds." "The next pieces on the program...were played with a balance of passion and intellect, guided by a warm singing tone in the melody." "The guitarist, Oren Fader glided through Mario Davidovsky's Synchronisms #10 , letting the electronically produced guitar sound appear with suprising force to contrast with his own delicately molded performance.." "Oren Fader, an increasingly prominent guitarist about town, is the guest of Speculum Musicae..." "Josh Levine's Glimpses had a delicate shimmer befitting its title, and excellent work by Tara Helen O'Connor on flute, Daniel Panner on viola and Oren Fader on guitar." "...totally winning confidence on display, especially Oren Fader and William Anderson in the crucial guitar and mandolin parts." "Fader's solo guitar in "Three Venezuelan Waltzes," by Antonio Lauro, was superbly performed in the masterful tradition of Alirio Diaz."
Anderson/Fader Duo "Anderson and Fader are expert chamber musicians with a perfect sense of timing, virtuosity and a sensitivity to nuance." "His (Milton Babbitt) melodies leap freely around the fretboard, and his rhythms are complex and perilous. Yet Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fader performed the work from memory, and gave an impressive account of it." "Anderson and Fader are technically superb and musically "William Anderson, Scott Kuney and Oren Fader, the three guitarists, gave the piece an electrifying reading." "Martin Rokeach's attractive Fantasy on Twelve Notes was well played by guitarists William Anderson and Oren Fader." Cygnus Ensemble "Cygnus continues to give captivating performances of Twentieth Century music featuring some of today's outstanding young musicians." "This enterprising and supple group--featuring guitars, strings and woodwinds in pairs--presents a light, lively evening of music from contemporary American composers, with offshoots into the European past. " "The Cygnus Ensemble shows why they are considered among the best of the new music groups. On this CD [ Broken Consort ], they bring a highly unusual instrumentation and masterful ensemble playing to bear on a program of diverse works." "But my favorite chamber disc this month is the debut CD by the Cygnus Ensemble, a group comprised of flute, oboe, violin, cello and two guitars - a really exciting new variation on the overused Pierrot ensemble. (It's great hearing how composers as diverse as Anthony Braxton and Sebastian Currier handle the assignment.)" "Finally there were arrangements of music for rock ensemble including [Frank Zappa's] "G-Spot Tornado" performed by the Fireworks Ensemble, the eight-member group that set up the whole concert... With the change of nomenclature and mood in the rock part of the show, a whole new feeling came into the auditorium, as if, formalities now concluded, everyone could kick off shoes and dance till dawn. Brian Coughlin, Fireworks' director and bass player, produced some hell-for-leather arrangements that the players, now relaxed and grooving, played the heck out of, down to show-stopping solos in "The Purple Lagoon/Approximate." Finally labels did indeed cease to matter: this was just music, and it sounded like music to keep." "This may be the hottest new classical band in New York. Call it what you will, their performances are astute and extremely entertaining... I have never seen happier performers and a more relaxed and receptive audience... Run, don't walk, to their next performance and buy their CDs too. This eclectic ensemble of flute, sax, violin, cello, bass, guitar, percussion, and keys is magic. The experience is ecstatic." "Brave, skillful and refreshing. To love a revolutionary masterpiece like 'The Rite of Spring' so much that you want to make it your own: We should all be aflame with such passion... Fireworks brings to 'The Rite of Spring' some of the raw energy of rock... There were hair-raising moments, especially in the eruptions that climax Part I." "The prize for the most madly eclectic program of the season goes to the NYC ensemble Fireworks." "Rock and jazz are the key influences on this punchy newcomer to the city's contemporary-music scene, which performs music by its director, the bassist Brian Coughlin (including Chimera, written for the guitarist Oren Fader), in its latest concert." "The evening's stunner was a new Morris solo, "Serenade" (to Lou Harrison's piece for guitar and percussion, fabulously played by Oren Fader and Sefan Schatz)." "...Serenade for Guitar (guitarist Oren Fader and percussionist Stefan Schatz were the excellent performers)." "In "Serenade," Morris shares the stage with guitarist Oren Fader and percussionist Stefan Schatz. They're all in the spotlight throughout this work, which pays tribute to the bond between music and dance..." |