PRAISE FOR OUR WORK

“Invisible Colors” — Miranda Cuckson (Urlicht)
“The production, by Ms. Cuckson and Gene Gaudette, is also excellent, with a spacious sound and warm presence.”
— Burning Ambulance

“Emanuel Feuermann in Concert” (Parnassus PACD96089)
“These recordings have seen the light of day before both on LP and CD in less than satisfactory transfers on various labels. Here, they have been granted a new lease of life, in exceptionally fine transfers by Urlicht AudioVisual’s Gene Gaudette. Don’t hesitate, as the exceptionally fine cello playing and artistic quality is high throughout.”
— Stephen Greenbank, MusicWeb International

“The Music of Gustav Mahler: Issued 78s, 1903-1940” (Urlicht AudioVisual UAV5980)
“The booklet, with notes by Sybille Werner and Gene Gaudette, is a work of scholarship. It evolved from Werner’s research with Henry-Louis de La Grange into the reception of Mahler’s music in this period, which proved that the composer’s music was heard more often than previously assumed. Werner and Gaudette’s notes for this set contain the most comprehensive description of the world of recording in this era, and the people involved. … Great classics like Bruno Walter’s Das Lied von der Erde (Kerstin Thorberg, Charles Kullmann) are on this set, in cleaner sound… [This release] is a milestone, an essential reference work for anyone interested in Mahler and in perfomance history. The transfers supersede earlier versions… [and] has been compiled not by anonymous mega business, but real Mahler enthusiasts who care passionately about what they are doing. They deserve our support.” — Classical Iconoclast
“The quality of the transfers is in many ways easily the best in terms of releasing from those old 78rpm grooves more musical detail and the removal of a great deal of the inherent surface noise. … This collection of every known commercially issued Mahler recording from 1903-40 is one of the most important Mahler issues in recent decades and is very strongly recommended indeed. … I must repeat that the entire set is further enhanced by particularly excellent booklet notes by Sybille Warner and Gene Gaudette, together with full texts and translations. A wonderful issue.”
– Robert Matthew-Walker, International Record Review
“This set of eight compact discs is indispensable to serious Mahler fans. Of course, the most serious will already have the Bruno Walter-conducted items and may have tracked down a lot of the more obscure material already. But a lot of us will find many a fresh treasure — or curio (the Fourth Symphony recorded by a Tokyo orchestra in 1930, for example). And, besides, it’s great to have everything gathered together in a neat package, all sensitively transferred (by Ward Marston, Mark Obert-Thorn and Charles Martin), with highly detailed and illuminating notes by Sybille Werner and the set’s producer Gene Gaudette. … There are marvels of interpretive nuance that emerge throughout the set, despite dated sound and some less-than-stellar orchestral playing here and there. Today’s performers could learn an awful lot from studying this music-making.”
— Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
“Epic… Excellent transfers and exhaustive notes.”
– Gramophone
“This impressive collection of early — very early — Mahler recordings includes symphonies led by the likes of Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eugene Ormandy and Willem Mengelberg, often in interpretations more willful and changeable than we are used to today.”
– Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times

Kodály: Duo for violin and Cello, Op. 7* • Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8
János Starker & *Elmira Darvarova (Urlicht UAV5986)
“It is wonderful to hear János Starker in this repertoire. These are recordings made in 1986 (the live Duo) and 1950 (New York City for the Sonata, which was first released on Period Records SPL-510). Gene Gaudette is both producer and remastering engineer for the present incarnation, and what a fine job he does. … How powerful it is when they meet on a unison line; how freely Darvarova’s violin flies over Starker’s grounding pizzicato bass. Darvarova’s violin sings, sometimes sweetly, sometimes with palpable anger; both players bring out the modernity of Kodály’s score to perfection.”
— Colin Clarke, Fanfare

“Unpublished • Michael Rabin” (Parnassus PACD96095)
“Last September I included in this column Parnassus’s ‘Michael Rabin on The Bell Telephone Hour’, promising a forthcoming second volume, which has now appeared and like the first includes some dazzling tracks. Both volumes are mandatory purchases for violin buffs. But more important still for fans… is a coupling of two full-length concertos that he never had the chance to take into the studio, Paul Creston’s Second (which Rabin commissioned) and, most treasurable, the Beethoven Concerto. … Both recordings only go to illustrate Rabin’s level of musical and technical superiority while at the height of his powers. Gene Gaudette’s remastering is excellent and so are Leslie Gerber’s notes.”
— Rob Cowan, Gramophone

“Unpublished • Spalding & Dohnányi in Concert” (Parnassus PACL96096)
“Spalding fits the ‘inimitable’ label that Parnassus’s collection of violinist can claim as a given, and these mostly unpublished recordings (around 1950) are both songful and fresh. … the performances by Spalding and Dohnányi make this well-transferred disc indispensable for all lovers of quality chamber of music memorably performed.”
– Gramophone, August 2025

“The Young Malcolm Frager” (Parnassus PACD96090)
“Malcolm Frager is joined by Vladimir Ashkenazy on piano 11 for a performance of Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, BB115 Sz110. The percussionists are Ruslan Nikulin and Valentin Snegirev. This is a Soviet Union Recording from 1963, and appeared on a Decca LP (SXL 6130). It sounds excellent in this spruced-up remastering by Gene Gaudette.”
— Stephen Greenbank, MusicWeb International