RECORDINGS

Just Released: (November 15, 2008): JRI Recordings >> More Info

with Peter Tillotson, Bass and Peter Fraenkel, Drums

   Something’s Coming - as played by the Oscar Peterson Trio
   Tin Tin Deo - as played by the Oscar Peterson Trio
   Bossa Beguine - as played by the Oscar Peterson Trio
   Watch What Happens - as played by the Oscar Peterson Trio
   (They Long to Be) Close to You - as played by the Erroll Garner Quartet
   My Foolish Heart - as played by the Bill Evans Trio
   Freeway - as played by the Vince Guaraldi Trio
   Lonely Woman - as played by the Horace Silver Trio
   First Trip - as played by the Herbie Hancock Trio
   You Look Good To Me - as played by the Oscar Peterson Trio
   Blues Etude - as played by the Oscar Peterson Trio

In a unique "classical" approach to jazz, pianist Frederick Moyer, bassist Peter Tillotson and drummer Peter Fraenkel pay tribute to the trios led by Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Vince Guaraldi, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver in note-for-note recreations of their greatest performances.

“To be succinct, this is a jazz trio to be reckoned with … This trio succeeds where other jazz trios fall light in that they renew our hopes about the staying power of our beloved jazz idiom.” EJAZZ NEWS

“This is a praiseworthy offering by master musicians who through care and reverence have delivered a thoroughly entertaining piece of music.” JAZZ.COM

“Tribute is one very special album that not only pays tribute to jazz giants of the past but in some ways, paves the road for others to be considered legends in the future. Pianist Fredrick Moyer, bassist Tillotson and drummer Fraenkel deliver a magnificent performance staking their own claim for such regard in the future. This album is clearly one of the best piano trio recordings to grace the airways.” EJAZZ NEWS

Just Released: (October 1, 2008): JRI Recordings >> More Info

• J122 – MacDowell/Clara Schumann: Two Piano Concerti
• Edward MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 23
•     The Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Nayden Todorov, Conductor
      (Used with permission from Music Minus One)
• Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7
•     Midi orchestra created by Dan Kury
•     William Rounds, Solo Cello

This recording is unique in that it utilizes two experimental approaches to making a concerto recording. In the MacDowell Concerto, the orchestra was recorded alone and the piano part added later. In the Clara Schumann Concerto, the orchestra was created by talented midi artist Dan Kury using a midi keyboard, two computers and sampled sounds. The results in both pieces are stunningly beautiful and realistic.

“Ironically, the ‘sleight-of-ear’ magic is so well done that, had Moyer not pointed it out, no one would've noticed, and, now that he has, one finds himself attending as much to the details of the digital recreation as to the details of Moyer's Playing.” WORLD MAGIZINE

“… Moyer justifies the experiment through his alternately expressive and vivacious playing … The Clara Schumann Midi performance is enlightening to hear.” ARKIVMUSIC.COM

“Moyer’s performance is fluent and characterful throughout, and in the presto giocoso, the unhurried sense of joie de vivre in his playing reminds me of how Arthur Rubinstein might have played this movement. . . . The midi orchestra succeeds in sounding like a real orchestra.” CLASSICAL VOICE OF NEW ENGLAND

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J121 - VIENNA REVISITED - JRI Recordings >> More Info

Mozart: Sonata in D Major, K. 576
Haydn: Andante with Variations in F Minor
Beethoven: Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 (“Pathetique“)
Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 90
Czerny: Exercise in Repeated Notes

“...brings the printed scores to life without any fuss or self- imposed drama...elegant and sophisticated sense for rubato...intrinsic feel for pace...he lets the music speak for itself, sans the histrionics that most other pianists apply.” FANFARE MAGAZINE

“...a recital worthy of enthusiastic applause...joy and sprightly precision ... feeling and technical polish…” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

“Moyer's deft and lyrical touch – even in the most demanding passages – reminds you just how beautifully the piano can sing in the right hands.” KDFC RADIO

J120 - CELLO WORKS OF ARENSKY AND RACHMANINOFF - JRI Recordings >> More Info
with Nancy Green, Cello

Arensky: Complete Works for Cello and Piano
  Petite Ballade
  Dance-capricieuse
  Orientale
  Romance
  Chante Triste
  Humoreske
Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19

“...some of the best chamber playing around. If everyone related as well as Green and Moyer, the world would be a better place.” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

J117 - JRI Recordings >> More Info
with Nancy Green, Cello

Brahms (arranged by Alfredo Piatti): 21 Hungarian Dances
Franz Schmidt: Three Fantasy Pieces

“ ...Green and Moyer play with great enthusiasm and technical virtuosity, revelling in the atmosphere of derring-do. These are fine readings, full of warmth.” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

“ Nancy Green is in terrific form: her sure intonation, rhythmic nuance, and expressive shading put her in the elite of today's concert cellists. Frederick Moyer's sensitive piano-playing lends effective support at every step.” FANFARE

J116 - SCHUBERT: Die Schöne Müllerin - JRI Recordings >> More Info
with Benjamin Luxon, Baritone
Recorded live in concert at the Tanglewood Music Festival July 30, 1986

“ Every so often there's a concert somehow so special as to banish critical reservations to the background... Such a concert was baritone Benjamin Luxon's performance of the Schubert song-cycle, Die Schöne Müllerin, presented in the Tanglewood Concert Hall last Wednesday... a performance of devastating intensity, much abetted by the strongly characterized collaboration of pianist Frederick Moyer. At the end of the concert, after the final wrench of 'Des Baches Wiegenlied,' there was the longest pre-applause silence I've ever witnessed in the concert hall.” Scott Cantrell, TIMES UNION (Albany)

J114 - ENOCH ARDEN - JRI Recordings >> More Info
Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Music by Richard Strauss
with Benjamin Luxon, Speaker

Moyer and baritone Ben Luxon have joined forces in recording Enoch Arden, a melodrama by Tennyson with music set to music by Richard Strauss. Luxon, who has performed with most of the major orchestras of the world, has made over 100 recordings. His rich voice and dramatic delivery combine to make this the most powerful and memorable Enoch Arden available on record.

“ They sound joined at the hip as collaborators. Luxon's colourful, poignant declamation of the text is matched with superb fluency of gesture and detail by Moyer, who brings an almost Schumannesque sense of dark, light and rapture to Strauss's prismatic score. The performance draws you into the tale with the kind of wonder millions experience while immersing themselves in the adventures of Harry Potter.” GRAMOPHONE

J113 - “CHOPIN” - JRI Recordings >> More Info

Variations on Mozart's “Là ci darem mano,” Op. 2
Etude in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8
Etude in G flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5 (“Black Key”)
Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4
Waltz in E flat Major, Op. 18
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
Nocturne in D flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
Ballade No. 3 in A flat Major, Op. 47
Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1
Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat Major, Op. 61
Nocturne in C sharp Minor, Op. Posthumous

“ Frederick Moyer's playing has unquestionably the finest polish and immaculate discretion of these four [recordings by Alain Planes, Dejan Lazic, Frederick Moyer, Martha Argerich]... Every piano student should study this recording for its jewel-like precision... The most memorable work on the program? Surely the D flat Nocturne, thought by many to be Chopin's quintessential Nocturne; Moyer's recording of it is one of the most winsome to be found.” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

“ Afficianados will admire Moyer's supreme artistry, comparable to that of the late Artur Rubinstein and other leading Chopin interpreters... Moyer's elegant feel for the music's line, his effective use of rubato and his clarity of execution all make this CD worth buying... His sense of the dramatic is without equal.” WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL

“ From the 17-year-old Chopin's deliciously witty Variations on Mozart's ‘La ci darem la mano’ through the mature composer's dreamy-with-backbone Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat, Moyer offers impeccable playing (those exquisite scales!) and consummate elegance. He also offers all the charm and flair you - or the composer - could want... without a trace of the ‘virtuosic’ hamminess that Chopin inspires in some.” BOSTON HERALD

J111 - JOHANNES BRAHMS - TWO SONATAS FOR PIANO AND CELLO - JRI Recordings >> More Info

with Nancy Green, Cello
Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38
Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99

“ These are astoundingly good performances, played with empathetic grandeur and charisma.” FANFARE

J109 - “AMERICAN JOURNEYS” - JRI Recordings >> More Info
with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Gisèle Ben-Dor, Conductor
David Ott: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1989)

“ Performances splendiferous, sonics excellent. ” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

J108 - CAMARGO GUARNIERI - THE TWENTY ESTUDOS - JRI Recordings >> More Info
(First Recording)

“ One admires Moyer's enterprise in exploring this interesting music, in playing it with such security and legerdemain, and making his discovery available to the rest of us.” BOSTON GLOBE

J107 - RHAPSODY IN BLUE, ETC. - JRI Recordings >> More Info

Schubert: Impromptu in E flat Major, Op. 90, No. 2
Beethoven: Für Elise
Chopin: Etude in C Major, Op. 10 No. 1
Etude in E Major, Op.10, No. 3
Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp Minor, Op. 39
Anton Rubinstein: Melody in F
Tchaikovsky: October and Troika from “The Seasons“
Saint-Saens: The Swan from “Carnival of the Animals“
Debussy: Clair de Lune
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Danny Boy Arranged by Percy Grainger
Adolf von Henselt: Préambules

“ His Rhapsody in Blue is genuinely rhapsodic, as good as any performance I know.” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

J106 - RACHMANINOFF PIANO WORKS - JRI Recordings >> More Info

Bach (arranged by Rachmaninoff): Three Movements from Violin Partita in E Major
Rachmaninoff: Ten Preludes, Op. 23
Rachmaninoff: Three Études-Tableaux:
  Op. 33, No. 3 in C Minor
  Op. 39, No. 6 in A Minor
  Op. 39, No. 9 in D Major

“ ... reminiscent of (dare we say it?) Horowitz.” INDIANAPOLIS STAR

J105 - “FREDERICK MOYER IN PERFORMANCE” - JRI Recordings >> More Info on this Video

Haydn: Sonata No. 9 in F Major
Beethoven: Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance
Mendelssohn: Six pieces in the form of a suite
Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
Liszt/Busoni: La Campanella

J104 - “OF OLD AND NEW: A grandfather's tale” - JRI Recordings >> More Info

Alberto Jonás: Toccata, Op. 14
Adolf von Henselt: Six Etudes from Op. 2
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C sharp Minor
Ernst von Dohnányi: Capriccio in B Minor, Op. 2
Bach/David Moyer: Trio Sonata in G Major: Allegro
Debussy: Sarabande from “Suite pour le piano”
Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces, Op. 19
Saint-Saëns: Etude in the Form of a Waltz

J103 - BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS - JRI Recordings >> More Info

Sonata No. 14 in C sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight)
Sonata No. 12 in A flat Major, Op. 2 (Funeral March)
Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 (Waldstein)

J102 - JRI Recordings >> More Info

with Nancy Green, Cello
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Britten: Sonata in C, Op. 65

“ I have been obliged to keep playing this recording over and over again to convince myself I have not been dreaming... The music is terrific. the performances are terrific. The sound is terrific... The performances, besides being technically top-rank, adjust to the distinctive style of each piece: a veritable demonstration of ‘idiomatic performance’ in every case.” FANFARE

J101 - “PRELUDES, FUGUES and VARIATIONS“ - JRI Recordings >> More Info

Bach/David Moyer: Chorale Prelude: “Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes-Sohn”
Beethoven: Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance
Franck/Bauer: Prelude, Fugue et Variation in B Minor
Rachmaninoff: Three Preludes from Op. 23
Bach/Busoni: Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532

GM2024 - GM Recordings
Mendelssohn:Seven pieces in the form of a suite
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

“ ...first-rate American pianist... makes for excellent listening... played with such warmth and sensitivity... Searching musicianship is evident in the evocative, thoughtful, and well-characterized Pictures at an Exhibition...” STEREOPHILE

GM2016 - GM Recordings
Reger: Four Studies for the Left Hand
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
George Walker: Sonata No.4 (1985)
Liszt/Busoni: Three Paganini Etudes

“ ...could scarcely be more brilliantly played.” NEW YORK MAGAZINE

GM2012 - GM Recordings
With Nancy Green, Cello
Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 19
Tchaikovsky: Pezzo Capriccioso

GM2011- “THREE CENTURIES LIVE” - GM Recordings
Haydn: Sonata No. 9 in F Major
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 8 in B flat Major

GM2005 - Debut Recording (1983) - GM Recordings
Bach: Partita No. 5 in G Major
Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42

“ His Bach is elegant and sparkling ... In the Rachmaninoff he displays velvety tone, producing mysterious moments contrasted with magisterial virtuosity.” CLAVIER

LAW024 - MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO- Biddulph Recordings
Complete works for Cello & Piano with Nancy Green, Cello
Toccata
Sonata
Scherzino
I Nottambuli (Variazioni fantastiche)
Notturna Sull'Acqua
Valse on the Name of Gregor Piatigorsky
Paraphrase on Rossini's “Barber of Seville”

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“His Bach is elegant and sparkling... In the Rachmaninoff Variations, he displays velvety tone, producing mysterious moments contrasted with magisterial virtuosity.”

KLAVIER