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“Schmieder’s programming [is] imaginative and unpredictable. He isn’t afraid to select favorites from the past in styles that have gone out of fashion; nor is he reluctant to try new things…”Dances and Romances from the Heart of the Old World" was a new label for an old concept, a throwback to the days when short classical pieces were marketed on 78 rpm records and played regularly at "pops" concerts. In quick succession, iPalpiti turned out Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, Borodin's Nocturne, Boccherini's famous Minuet, the Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, the Rigaudon from Grieg's Holberg Suite, an adaptation of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and, as an encore, Khachaturian's 'Sabre Dance'. In this company, Schnittke's 'Mischievous Polka' was not at all out of place. Although a few conductors like Michael Tilson Thomas and Leonard Slatkin have reembraced this tradition, one doesn't encounter it very often in the overture-concerto symphony world. The key to bringing this concept back to life is to invest as much care, nuance, and energy into these pieces as one might for a Brahms symphony. And iPalpiti did just that.” –Richard Ginell, American Record Guide (November 2015)