Reviews

Albert Regni: El Amor
(Sons of Sound SSPCD005)

"Albert Regni is the long-time sax star of the New York Philharmonic and other New York-based ensembles. His tone is very American, strong, extroverted, and adaptable, with technique second to none. This album sees him joined by several string players in a variety of pieces… as good as any [Piazzolla] I have heard… and Regni’s soprano sax swoons through them all, certainly as well as Ma… clever and idiomatic…." [read the review]
~ American Record Guide, January/February 2000

"…this group of Piazzolla’s alluring melodies for the unlikely combination of soprano saxophone and string quartet… It appears to work very well… with Regni’s daughter, Marissa, given equal status in Pierre Max DuBois’s “Feu de Paille” (translated as “Straw Fire,” the title is a French colloquialism for intense passion). In two very short movements for saxophone and violin, the music has an improvisatory nature as the instruments combine and interact with a seductive fervor. One time winner of the Prix de Rome, this very fine French composer is all too neglected on disc, and, though brief, this addition is most welcome… Over the years Bernard Hoffer wrote a number of works… to form a delightful suite using a mixture of instruments, from a saxophone and violin duet, to a quartet for saxophone and three strings. This is fun music, immediately attractive, and with very catchy melodic content… The playing throughout is of the very highest quality…" [read the review]
~ Fanfare, November/December 1999