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Nigel Armstrong

Nigel Armstrong

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Hailed as “an astonishing talent, with exquisite technique”, Nigel Armstrong was born in Sonoma, California where he began playing the violin at the age of five. Nigel made his orchestra debut in 2002 as a soloist with the Baroque Sinfonia and has since performed concertos with the symphony orchestras in Dusseldorf, Oslo, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Buenos Aires among others.  He served as concertmaster for the American Youth Symphony and The Colburn Orchestra when he was a student in Los Angeles.
As a soloist, Nigel remains a personal favorite of Sir Neville Marriner, who looks forward to his next performances with Nigel.  After recording the Korngold concerto on this album, Sir Neville and Nigel gave three more performances of the work with orchestras in Europe.
Nigel won the Premio Tango prize at the first international violin competition in Buenos Aires, and the Ole Bull and Nordheim awards in Oslo.  Nigel also took first place in the Boston Symphony Orchestra concerto competition.  In Moscow in 2011, Nigel won Best Performance of the Commissioned Work by John Corigliano with Stomp and was the only American finalist in the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition. Mr. Armstrong was profiled in the cover story of the January/February issue of Teen Strings in 2007. He also appeared on NPR’s acclaimed radio program “From the Top.”
Though classical music is Mr. Armstrong’s passion he also enjoys exploring different traditions of musical expression such as jazz, fiddle and tango.

Tracklist

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1.
Sonata for Solo Violin - Tempo di ciaccona
08:31
2.
Sonata for Solo Violin - Fuga
04:20
3.
Sonata for Solo Violin - Melodia
06:11
4.
Sonata for Solo Violin - Presto
05:20
5.
Violin Sonata No.3 in C Major, BWV 1005 - Adagio
03:54
6.
Violin Sonata No.3 in C Major, BWV 1005 - Fuga
09:04
7.
Violin Sonata No.3 in C Major, BWV 1005 - Largo
03:10
8.
Violin Sonata No.3 in C Major, BWV 1005 - Allegro assai
03:39
9.
Violin Concerto in D Major - Moderato
08:29
10.
Violin Concerto in D Major - Romanze
07:19
11.
Violin Concerto in D Major - Allegro
07:40

Total time: 01:07:37

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Mastering Engineer

We made this album in two concert halls with great acoustics. For the Bach and Bartok sonatas in The Brain and Creativity Institute’s brand new Cammilleri Hall at USC, we used one AKG C24 microphone generously provided by Jon Fisher from Gearworks Pro Audio. For the live Korngold violin concerto in Royce Hall at UCLA, we chose two Neumann U47 microphones and two AKG C12 microphones from Gearworks. We used microphone amplification by Elliot Midwood for both recordings. We recorded to high resolution digital media and to RMGI 468 analog tape, with tube recording electronics designed for us by Len Horowitz.

Microphones

AKG C24 Tubes – Gerworks pro Audio

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Producer

Bob Attiyeh, Jacob Horowitz

Recording Engineer

Bob Attiyeh

Recording Type & Bit Rate

Analog to DSD256

Release DateApril 7, 2015

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