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Stephen Smoliar has a review for Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates recording on his blog, The Rehearsal Studio: “…the performance is expressively lush. [Mass Transmission] captures the spirit of nostalgia for those pioneering times with a clear-sighted account of how a new technology established the vanguard of a…
When I first moved to Riverdale, Maryland, in 2012, I was immediately enchanted by the beauty of the Riversdale House Museum. This wonderful house, built in 1806, seemed like the perfect location for a concert series. Within days I approached the director of the mansion about creating a performance series and I was delighted to…
Fanfare’s July/August 2019 issue will feature the following rave for Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s Continent’s End Song Cycle recording featuring Buffy Baggott and Kevin Korth: “Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli’s response to the texts is visceral; the sheer drama of the opening song, “Granite and Cypress,” with its tumultuous piano opening below the imperious voice (“White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children…
Opera News names Stephen Costello‘s A Te, O Cara recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra a Critic’s Choice! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits. … Take, for example, the album’s opener, La Fille du Régiment’s ‘Ah! Mes amis.’ Costello does not reach for…
InfoDad reviews the new David Shifrin recording Spring Forward featuring works by Peter Schickele, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Richard Danielpour performed by the Miró Quartet, Jasper String Quartet, and Dover Quartet: “David Shifrin’s deeply felt and strong commitment to the new clarinet literature as well as more-classical clarinet works leads him again and again to…
“What defines a singer is not what he sings but how he sings it, and that includes not only the basic vocal equipment but the capacity to meet the demands of the vocal writing: endurance, range, volume, and cutting power. Add to that the musicianship, the ear for languages, and the stylistic flair expected from…
Tenor Kristian Benedikt began his career as a lyric tenor in his native Lithuania, but has since blossomed into one of the opera world’s finest dramatic tenors in challenging roles like Otello. His immensely powerful and dark-hued voice enables him to shine in several of Wagner’s “Heldentenor” roles as well; yet he remains a highly…
On Monday, it was announced that the 2019 International Opera Awards had selected soprano Asmik Grigorian as Female Singer of the Year and tenor Charles Castronovo as Male Singer of the Year! Ms. Grigorian is the featured soprano in Delos’s audio recording, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of War, Peace, Love and Sorrow (DE 3517), with distinguished Maestro Constantine…
Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates Named by Musical America as the 2018 Composer of the Year as well as the most-performed composer of his generation, Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates is widely renowned for his pioneering practice of creating music for conventional performing forces enhanced by electronic sounds. Of the two works presented in this remarkable album, Mass Transmission—in…
Delos’ international A&R director, globetrotting conductor Constantine Orbelian, recently returned to his San Francisco home base from an extended stay in Armenia and was pleasantly surprised to find multiple letters of congratulation from California political figures for his 2019 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Opera Recording. Orbelian and audio engineer Vilius Keras were honored for their…
The sirens, those mythical beings of the island of Circe, occupy a unique place in literature. Unlike other temptresses, their lure is art: a song of such overpowering beauty that it draws sailors to a rocky death. Perhaps one thinks of lyrical, melodic music coming from sirens, but this cycle casts a wide net in…
Commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony for their 2012 Mavericks Festival, Mass Transmission brings to life the true story of a distantly separated mother and daughter speaking over the first long-distance radio transmissions between Holland and Java. Ethereal choral sonorities processed through a haze of radio static unfold into virtuosic organ toccatas. The texts for…
Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates Named by Musical America as the 2018 Composer of the Year as well as the most-performed composer of his generation, Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates is widely renowned for his pioneering practice of creating music for conventional performing forces enhanced by electronic sounds. Of the two works presented in this remarkable album, Mass Transmission—in…
The April 2019 Issue of Gramophone Magazine reviews Continent’s End: Song Cycle by Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli in their Sounds of America section: “Nearly everything about this disc arrives like a bolt out of the blue. … Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli…composed Continent’s End by improvising vocal lines to Jeffers’s poems, which he then recorded, with piano-writing to follow. …epic qualities…
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