Remy Franck gives his highest marks to Gevorg Hakobyan’s new Arias of Love & Sorrow recording with John Fisher, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony in the Pizzicato Journal: “an exciting program that is well suited to Hakobyan’s dramatic voice. There is not a aria on this CD where I would say that Habokyan’s…
WQXR’s Max Fine has a new story titled, “Why You Should Listen to Erwin Schulhoff”, and features Dominic Cheli, James Conlon, and the Colburn School’s Shapeshifter recording: “In October 2022, Conlon, pianist Dominic Cheli, and artists from the Colburn School released a new album of Schulhoff’s music, Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff. Shapeshifter features the composer’s works primarily…
Rafael de Acha gives a glowing review of Gevorg Hakobyan’s Delos debut album, Arias of Love & Sorrow: “In one of the finest calling-card débuts we have heard in quite some time – the DELOS recording ARIAS OF LOVE & SORROW – Gevorg Hakobyan brings keen interpretive intelligence and a gift for coloring his sound to suit the…
Textura Magazine recommends Dominic Cheli, Adam Millstein, James Conlon, and the Colburn School’s Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff recording: “The single-movement Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra towers over the other pieces for sheer length. Not surprisingly, the twenty-one-minute work ventures down multiple stylistic avenues during its journey, with the piano soloist and two chromatic motifs operating…
MusicWeb International critic David Barker reviews Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Cello Concerto & Other Works featuring Zuill Bailey, Francesco Lecce-Chong, Elizabeth Dorman, and the Santa Rosa Symphony: “exceptionally enjoyable, rich in diverse moods, glorious melodies, and catchy rhythms. … Peanuts Gallery is one of Zwilich’s best-loved works… For sheer joyous pleasure, it is hard to go past Snoopy…
All Music‘s James Manheim gives Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff from James Conlon and the Colburn School a 4.5 star rating in his new review: “The music is delivered with a valuable jolt of enthusiasm by the youthful players, and Conlon and company make a powerful case for its inclusion in the general repertory going…
Constantine Orbelian, the Kaunas City Symphony, and General Director Algimantas Treikauskas have been awarded The Golden Disc Award for high artistic level and intensive concert activity in 2022! Since 2001, the award has been given to the best performers of the year in 4 categories: instrumentalist, vocalist, instrumental or vocal ensemble, choir, and orchestra, along with jazz…
The December 2022–January 2023 issue of The Whole Note features a wonderful review for our Mark Abel: Spectrum release: “Not only do we meet Isabel Bayrakdarian, a haunting soprano singing emotionally in praise of three women artists we might never have known if Abel had not set their lives to song, but we find ourselves…
“Mark Abel continues to demonstrate his versatility in the works on the newest Delos release of his music, ‘Spectrum’, a generous two-disc helping of song-cycles, chamber pieces and excerpts from an opera still roaming around the California-based composer’s fertile brain. As the previous recordings revealed, Abel writes in a poetic tonal style, at times reminiscent…
Grego Applegate Edwards’ Classical-Modern Music Review has a great recommendation for Mark Abel: Spectrum recording: “Listening to this set numerous times reveals a composer of lyrical gifts, a crafter of vibrant melodic-harmonic landscapes of a ravishing sort, perhaps in the footsteps but not the actual shoes of a Samuel Barber (the Knoxville and such). There…
It’s so hard to believe that five years have gone by without our beloved Dmitri Hvorostovsky! It was truly a gift that I was able to work alongside this extraordinary human being for almost 20 years, bringing his tremendous talent to every major city in Russia, to the European music capitals, and to the major musical…
The Colburn School and James Conlon’s recording of Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff got a grand feature in a San Francisco Classical Voice‘s article highlighting The Music of Persecuted 20th-Century Composers: “Of the Recovered Voices composers who were persecuted, exiled, or in some cases murdered by the Nazis, Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942) was, for me, the…
Ron Schepper offers an in-depth review of Mark Abel’s new album, Spectrum, in Textura Magazine: “While appreciation for Mark Abel’s music is undeniably enhanced by familiarity with releases such as The Cave of Wondrous Voice (2020), Time and Distance (2018), and Home is a Harbor (2016), it’s not required when the double-CD set Spectrum, the sixth album on Delos by the American…
The Arts Fuse’s Jonathan Blumhofer reviews The Colburn School’s Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff recording. “Shapeshifter, a new album from musicians at the Colburn School and conductor James Conlon, shines a spotlight on, mostly, Schulhoff’s mature chamber music. It is, by and large, a strongly played effort that makes a powerful case for the vitality…
Mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich and pianist Jeffrey LaDeur perform excerpts from Mark Abel’s song cycle “1966,” a composition on Abel’s Delos album Spectrum: 1966 1966 was written for Kindra Scharich and her close colleague Jeffrey LaDeur. The cycle evokes the long-ago year when I turned 18 – a magic and unsettling time filled with life-altering events.…
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