AllMusic gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to Mark Abel’s The Cave of Wondrous Voice:
“Composer Mark Abel has been known for his distinctive vocal music idiom, late-Romantic in its aesthetic but often shading off into dissonance. Soprano Hila Plitmann knows his style well, and she is present here in Abel’s Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, with difficult but evocative texts translated into English here for the first time. … most of the album is devoted to new instrumental music, more tonal and interestingly divergent from the style of Abel’s songs. The three-movement Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano is a representative example of the mixture of the programmatic and the abstract in these chamber works. … A very worthwhile hour of contemporary music for traditional instruments.”
—James Manheim, AllMusic
See the full review on AllMusic.com
