American Record Guide
May/June 2019
Telemann: Violin Sonatas
Dorian Komanoff Bandy; Paul Cienniwa, hpsi
Whaling City 108--80 minutes
This is the second recording I have encountered of Telemann's unusual 1715 publication of sonatas for violin and harpsichord. The first was…
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One of the things that excited me about taking the position at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, FL was the opportunity to create a youth music program from scratch. There was nothing in place! Now at the end…
Read moreI had great fun playing Henryk Górecki’s cheeky Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, Op. 40 at yesterday's Music at St. Paul's concert. Click here to watch a video of the performance.
MAX EMANUEL CENCIC ALUMBRÓ LA NOCHE DE WYNWOOD
Sebastian Spreng in el Nuovo Herald
Sucedió otra vez. Uno de esos pequeños milagros musicales que de vez en cuando suceden en Miami sin demasiado aviso y que, dicho sea de paso…
Read moreMy Chancel Choir at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, FL sang an excellent service of Choral Evensong on March 3. Included in that service was Bach's Cantata 111.
March 2019 * Larry Palmer
Telemann Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Totally unfamiliar music by the most prolific baroque composer Georg Friedrich Telemann (1681-1767) fills a recent compact disc featuring violinist Dorian Komanoff Bandy and harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa (Whaling City…
Read moreDorian Komanoff Bandy and Paul Cienniwa: Telemann, Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Posted on February 12, 2019 by John Marks
Click here for the full review.
This new release by Dorian Komanoff Bandy, Baroque violin, and Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord, therefore…
Read moreWhile not a review, Strings Magazine featured a nice profile of my violinist/collaborator Dorian Komanoff Bandy with a good discussion of the source materials for our October 2018 CD release. Click here to read it.
St. Paul’s music director bids 2018 farewell with ‘Goldberg Variations’
December 29, 2018 By Greg Stepanich for Palm Beach Arts Paper
It’s said that the insomniac Count Hermann von Keyserling, an ambassador from Russia to the royal court…
Read moreThe Whole Note: Strings Attached December 2018-January 2019
by Terry Robbins
Georg Philipp Telemann was not only one of the most prolific composers in musical history but also one of the most cosmopolitan. Some idea of the wide range…
Read moreINFODAD, we rank everything we review with plus signs, on a scale from one (+) [disappointing] to four (++++) [definitely worth considering]. We mostly review (+++) or better items. Very rarely, we give an exceptional item a fifth…
Read moreGEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN - Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord - Dorian Komanoff Bandy (Violin) - Paul Cienniwa (Harpsichord) - 687606010826 - Released: October 2018 - Whaling City Sound WCS108
Sonata no. 1 in G minor…
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Telemann
Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Frankfurt, 1715
Dorian Komanoff Bandy & Paul Cienniwa
Telemann (1681-1767) was one of music’s great mavericks, an aesthete with a restless mind and cosmopolitan tastes. During his nearly seven-decade career, he sampled…
Read moreOn August 19, 2018, I performed Karl Henning's Plotting (y is the new x), Op. 116 with excellent violinist Mei Mei Luo. The performance was recorded for YouTube, and you can view it here:
By Mark Aliapoulios - Special to the Palm Beach Daily News
Posted: 4:01 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The Palm Beach Symphony’s performance Monday night was vibrant and glorious.
Maestro Ramón Tebar led the orchestra in…
Read morePaul Cienniwa will play Bach’s Art of the Fugue on the harpsichord at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Music at St. Paul’s will celebrate its 30th season with a…
Read moreIn late summer, I created an edition of "The X Commandments," John Farmer's 1592 setting of a versified Ten Commandments that appeared in "The Whole Booke of Psalmes, With Their Wonted Tunes, As They Are Sung In Churches, Composed Into…
Read moreA former high school student from the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School studied Brahms' Second Rhapsody with me this past spring. This YouTube video is of her playing it at Eastman a few weeks ago:
Fabulous!
Writer Chadwick Becks gave a nice mention of By Heart on the Charleston Classical Guitar blog:
FYI: If you would like an interesting read about playing "from the heart," then you might want to pick up By…
Read moreFinding Faith: Music brought organist to God — and Delray Beach
Paul Cienniwa, who starts June 1 as St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s music ministry director, says ‘music can touch people who aren’t religious. It’s…
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