An article from New Zealand Herald by William Dart on composer and classical music producer Wayne Laird
While Naxos Records calls on Laird’s studio expertise for this and other projects, he also runs his own label…
… His background is as diverse as his catalogue, going back to Avondale College in the 1960s when classical music was always “something that came from overseas”…
… Joining the ensemble From Scratch in the 1980s, alongside Philip Dadson, Geoff Chapple and Don McGlashan, got him “out of this classical thing”…
Texas pianist John Salmon (b. 1954) may have accomplished for Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) what Leonard Pennario did for Louis Moreau Gottschalk a generation ago…
… The curious combination of classical procedures and jazzy, hip sounds takes us to The Half Note in New York City, a real “club” sonority that Salmon’s right hand whips out in runs while the left has the bumping ostinati…
… Salmon ends with a blistering Scherzo–a toccata really–from the Sonata No. 2, wherein any number of pounding of the D in 12/8 time gets our blood pumping…
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