Album Notes

THOMAS MEGLIORANZA was a winner of the 2005 Walter W. Naumburg Competition, the 2003 Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity Competition in Graz, the 2002 Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the 2002 Joy In Singing Competition. He's sung with the National, Houston, and Oregon symphonies, as well as Orpheus, Philharmonia Baroque, and the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble. Described as an "immaculate and innovative recitalist" by the New Yorker magazine, he is also "well known for his acumen in both early and contemporary music" (Musical America), and on the operatic stage in roles such as Zhou En-lai in Nixon in China, Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös' Angels in America, and Don Giovanni.

REIKO UCHIDA attended the Curtis Institute, Mannes College of Music and Juilliard, and was a winner of the Joanna Hodges and Zinetti Competitions. She was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS2 program, and has collaborated with Jennifer Koh, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, and the Borromeo and Tokyo Quartets. She has performed with the LA Philharmonic, and the Santa Fe, Greenwich and Princeton Symphonies and, as a youngster, appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

ABOUT THE RECORDING:
Reiko and I made this recording in early June 2007 at the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City. Judith Sherman produced and engineered the recording with the assistance of Jeanne Valonis. Philip Calabrese was the piano technician.

ABOUT THE PIANO:
Reiko plays a rare 1907 ‘Palatial’ Pleyel grand piano on this recording, courtesy of Klavierhaus in Manhattan. After trying many different instruments, we were both captivated by the Pleyel’s luminous, transparent, mellow sound and the intimate quality it brought to the Schubert songs. (Go the "Schubert CD" page on www.meglioranza.com to see photos of this very beautiful instrument.)