Review Arts Desk, UK, May 2015
One of the most serious UK online publications about classical music: Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Schubert, Sibelius, Wagner | Classical music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
read moreReviews Rivista Musica, Italy, May 2015
A Review in Italian in the classical music magazine MUSICA, May 2015 Musica Italia recensioni ICSM
read moreReview International Record Review, February 2015
We had the privilege to be in one of the last issues of the now discontinued International Record Review. A serious magazine for the collectors. IRR Review Feb 2015
read moreReview by Huntley Dent, Fanfare USA, Jan-Feb 2015
January/February 2015 The growing field of artist-run labels is very encouraging, in that we get to hear attractive talents such as husband-and-wife pianists Ivo Varbanov and Fiammetta Tarli, who give considerable pleasure in their first batch of solo and duet releases. They are accomplished artists, he from Bulgaria, she from Italy, with depth of background and wide experience concertizing in Europe. I was the most attracted to their unusual CD of Brahms waltzes; in fact, I’ve never before encountered the four-hand piano arrangement,...
read moreReview by Jerry Dubins, Fanfare USA, Jan-Feb 2015
January/February 2015 The backstory to these four releases may actually turn out to be the front story; for at a time when record sales are purportedly at historic lows, a brand new label, Independent Creative Sound and Music (ICSM), has been founded in London in 2014 with a commitment to “uncompromising quality in every aspect of the recording process.” At hand are the first fruits of ICSM’s labors: two discs in its Solo series (002 and 003). One features Bulgarian pianist Ivo Varbanov performing a program of works by Beethoven,...
read moreReview by Scott Noriega, Fanfare USA, Jan-Feb 2015
January/February 2015 ICSM? The International Society for Contemporary Music? No. That would be the ISCM. ICSM is a new record label—Independent Creative Sound and Music Records—founded this year by its first two recorded members heard here, the pianists, Ivo Varbanov and Fiammetta Tarli, based in London, England. And what is the premise of this, yet another independent record label? That the musicians chosen to record should be in charge of virtually every aspect of the recording from the beginning to the end, both in terms of the...
read moreBrahms: Complete waltzes for four hands CD review – sparkle and swing, by Stephen Pritchard, The Observer
Stephen Pritchard Sunday 30 November 2014 00.05 GMT The Observer Brahms: Complete waltzes for four hands CD review – sparkle and swing (4/5 stars) Fiammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov (piano) (ICSM) ‘A dizzying experience’: FIammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov. You can have too much of a good thing sometimes. Brahms’s two sets of Liebeslieder waltzes (love song waltzes) and his Op 39 waltzes were designed for domestic consumption, to be played and sung by talented families around the pianoforte… but not all in one evening. To hear all 49 in...
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Brahms Walzer, op. 39; Liebesliederwalzer, op. 52a; Neue Liebesliederwalzer, op. 65a Fiammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov (piano duet) ICSM Records ICSM 001 (56 minutter) icsmrecords.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 Beethoven Bagatelles, op. 126; Schumann Ges?nge der Fr?he; Brahms arr. Busoni Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: Nr 4, 5, 8–11 Ivo Varbanov (klaver) ICSM Records ICSM 002 (53 minutter) icsmrecords.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 Schubert Moments musicaux, D.780; Schumann Phantasiest?cke, op. 12; Schoenberg Sechs kleine Klavierst?cke, op. 19...
read moreRENCONTRES for La Musique Classique, France
Here is link with an interview in French for la Musique Classique: Rencontres – Ivo Varbanov | La musique classique
read morePRESENTING ICSM RECORDS by Robert Schulslaper, Fanfare
Fiammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov, pianists and creative partners in life and work, have banded together with a dedicated team of recording and design professionals to launch ICSM Records, a company with impressively high aspirations: “Independent Creative Sound and Music (ICSM) Records—made by musicians for musicians—is committed to uncompromising quality in every aspect of the recording, creating artistic statements beyond time and fashion.” Before probing more deeply into ICSM’s plans and philosophy, however, let’s learn something about the...
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