AYKE AGUS DOUBLES n her recently released Protone CD, world renowned violinist/pianist Ayke Agus utilized the distinct properties and technology of the Disklavier® DC7 Pro to produce a technologically innovative and unique recording. She was able to simultaneously play and record her violin solos and her previously digitized accompaniments on the Disklavier Pro. In the past an artist would have had to overdub-the process of layering one instrument over a previously recorded instrument-to record multiple instruments on the same recording. In essence, the Disklavier made it possible for Agus to record a live performance, playing two instruments in tandem. Agus, who worked with Jascha Heifetz as her accompanist, recorded 19 of the master's transcriptions for this CD, maintaining Heifetz's balance between the piano and violin. Ayke Agus Doubles was recorded in Studio A at David L. Abell Fine Pianos in Los Angeles, engineered by David Kreisberg, and produced by Jane Courtland Welton and Laila Padorr Nilles.

MIXING IT UP AT SONY RECORDING STUDIOS WITH PIANIST CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON   collaboration of Yamaha pianos, musical genius, and the latest in digital recording technology will take place at Sony Music Studios beginning mid-January when Mix Magazine's NY editor and composer, Gary Eskow enters the studio to record his first full length CD with young American pianist Christopher Johnson. The duo's recording sessions will be used to test the latest in digital recording technology. A film and commercial composer whose work has aired internationally from Argentina to the USSR, Eskow and Johnson reached an agreement with Sony to record two full length CDs. Remembering an impressive performance given by Johnson at his Lincoln Center debut in 1997, Eskow asked if he would record with him. "Johnson is a great, young pianist with a thunderous technique," says Eskow. "He also has a great deal of expressive artistic sensitivity." An extensive search to find the best possible piano for Johnson to play and a first class recording environment followed. After hearing two Yamaha C7's at Sony Music Studios in New York, Johnson exclaimed, "These two pianos are absolutely perfect!" The first CD entitled Testimony will predominantly consist of Eskow's solo piano music performed by Johnson, along with "Collection Number One" for cello and piano, "Song and Dance" for oboe and piano, and "Winter on the River," a collection of four poems written by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, William Meredith, set for piano and voice. The second CD will contain repertoire selections, ranging from Beethoven to Gershwin.

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