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…
The April 2019 Issue of Gramophone Magazine reviews A Tribute To Danny Granados in their Sounds of America section: “This recording, made in 2011 with members of the HSO, gives an idea of just how superbly gifted a musician [Danny] Granados was. I was completely bowled over by this polished and poetic recording of Brahms’s…
Enjoy a new video-overview of Continent’s End from the composer, Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli: Continent’s End Song Cycle by Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli Based On Nine Poems of Robinson Jeffers While Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is one of America’s most important 20th-century poets, relatively few composers have set his lean, emotive and enigmatic verses. Composer Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli, like Jeffers a…
MusicWeb International‘s Ralph Moore makes our new Verdi Messa da Requiem recording (digital video and audio, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray) a Recommended release! “I [reviewed] Temirkanov’s live 2009 recording [of the Verdi Requiem] and considered it good, if not first-class, but this latest live recording surpasses it by a considerable margin. … when the resonant Russian basses enter…
The March 2019 issue of Gramophone Magazine features a review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini‘s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording in their “Sounds of America” section: “[a] monumental approach to Joachim’s effective arrangements for violin and piano. … Höpcker’s grand rhetorical gestures work to the music’s advantage, notably in her convincingly massive and orchestrally…
Gramophone Magazine’s March 2019 issue is out and includes a great review of Stephen Costello’s new A Te, O Cara recording: “the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra under Constantine Orbelian suitably frame the emotional directness of the performances. Costello’s … colouristic range is apparent in every selection, allowing recitatives to speak with … light and shade.…
MusicWeb International‘s Michael Cookson reviews Stephen Costello’s A Te, O Cara recording: “Stephen Costello provides a consistent quality of performance across the collection well chosen to display his stylish and engaging voice to significant effect. …Costello agilely and astutely manages the manifold challenges of [Donizetti’s Ah, mes amis] that requires no less than nine high…
Three new releases coming March 8, 2019 – available now for pre-order: Spring Forward: Music for Clarinet and String Quartet Spring Forward, the delightful title work by Peter Schickele, is a gift to the composer/humorist’s many worldwide fans. This touching Suite represents a culmination of sorts “after a lifetime of entering sketches for such a…
Our new release, Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem – In Memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky is now available for HD Streaming as a new Apple Music Visual Album! Now in Apple Music! Originally released in October 2018 on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital Download, and also now available on CD! In the wake of the beloved Russian…
Our Verdi: Messa da Requiem recording was reviewed in the CD format by Audiophile Audition and received a four-star rating: “[Conductor Temirkanov] savor[s] every musical tone and combination… Dinara Alieva’s…heartfelt…shatter the ionosphere. Mezzo-soprano Petrova melts us with her search for spiritual consolation, especially her duet in the Recordare: Juste judex ultionis: donum fac remissionis. Tenor Francesco Meli…
Limelight Magazine gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton‘s debut solo release, All Who Wander, with pianist Brian Zeger: “American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is a rising star, that’s for sure. With a rich, opulent instrument that puts you in mind of the great Stephanie Blythe, she’s a thoughtful, dramatically attuned artist whose debut recording heralds great…
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