The National Association of Teachers of Singing‘s November/December issue of The Journal of Singing features a rave new review for Herschel Garfein’s Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60 recording: “Herschel Garfein’s song cycle Mortality Mansions … serves as a stirring final testament to Donald Hall’s work and to the almost limitless possibilities…
“It is with a mix of pleasure and surprise that I listened to Cuban Memoirs (DE3535), a Delos CD of piano music by Andrés Alén.…Through ten tracks, spanning roughly 54 minutes of playing time, the protean pianist William Villaverde. tackles and conquers the technical intricacies of Alén’s music. But that’s merely technique, and what matters in Villaverde’s playing are his soulful,…
Culture Spot LA‘s Theodore Bell offers an in-depth review of Delos’ latest recording of music by composer Mark Abel – Time and Distance – featuring Hila Plitmann, Janelle DeStefano, Carol Rosenberger, Tali Tadmor, and Bruce Carver: “Plitmann brings her exceptional talent to three works, the first of which, “Those Who Loved Medusa,” links the modern…
Stereophile Magazine’s Jason Victor Serious has a RAVE review for the Asia / America New Music Institute‘s new recording, Transcendent: There is music so new, so original, so contemplative, and so deeply felt that it makes you want to listen, and then demands that you listen again. It’s music whose layers peel back over time,…
TheaterJones.com‘s Cathy Ritchie has a new review for Carol Rosenberger’s To Play Again memoir: “I confess I was unfamiliar with the pianist Carol Rosenberger before this memoir came along. Mea culpa to me, as she has had a prolific recording, performing, teaching, and disc-producing career over the past four decades. But it’s primarily her struggles with physical…
All three of our July releases had a common thread running between them: the music and musical influences of Cuba. There was of course William Villaverde’s Cuban Memoirs, featuring the music of Cuban composer Andrés Alén, then Piet Koornhof and Albie van Schalkwyk displayed the influence of Cuban music on Soviet composer Igor Frolov on…
Albany Times Union‘s Joseph Dalton reviews Herschel Garfein’s new Mortality Mansions recording in his “Classical Notes” column: “The American poet Donald Hall, dubbed by the New York Times as the ‘laureate of rural life,’ died on June 23 at age 89. That very same week, Delos released ‘Mortality Mansions,’ a unique collection of songs based…
Marking the 151st anniversary of Spanish composer Enrique Granados‘ birthday with a new playlist on Spotify! Recordings in this playlist
Joshua Kosman has a newly published review for Herschel Garfein’s Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss After 60 in the San Francisco Chronicle: “The emotional impact of ‘Mortality Mansions,’ weighty to begin with, grew even more poignant with the death of the 89-year-old poet Donald Hall at the end of June. In this shimmering,…
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Watch Ryu Goto performing composer Sayo Kosugi‘s “Lilac Nova” at the Kyoto National Museum with AANMI musicians and conductor Yuga Cohler: AANMI Japan Tour Video Blog 9 AANMI artist Ryu Goto performs Sayo Kosugi's explosive Lilac Nova at Kyoto National Museum, under conductor Yuga Cohler. Lilac Nova is one of the most powerful pieces on…
Gramophone Magazine has a new interview and review with David Shifrin about his new Delos recording of the music of Carl Nielsen in their August 2018 issue’s “Sounds of America” section: Gramophone Interview What first drew you to the music of Nielsen? I was 13 years old when I first heard Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto. I…
James Miller interviews Carol Rosenberger about her new memoir To Play Again on JamesMillerLifeology.com: To Play Again At age twenty-one, while she was working with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in France, concert pianist Carol Rosenberger was stricken with paralytic polio—a condition that knocked out her “piano-playing” muscles. But Rosenberger refused to give up. Over the…
Theme and Variations on a Theme by Pablo Milanés was composed in 1993. It contains fourteen variations based on a segment of the song “El breve espacio en que no estás” (The brief space in which you are not), by the Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés. These variations are not only technically challenging but also intellectually…
Jason Victor Serinus reviews Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin‘s Timeless: Ten Centuries of Music in the August 2018 issue of Stereophile Magazine. “Happily, some very fine recordings have come my way in the last six months. … If forced to single out one from the crowd, I’d grab Timeless: Ten Centuries of Music by Cappella…
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