Happy New Year’s Eve!
We couldn’t think of a better way to recap the year than to do a “Best of 2010” list with our albums!
Best Selling 2010 Delos Albums:
“a true Verdian, with a big, juicy, vibrato-rich sound” London Times
“today’s most exciting Verdian spinto” Opera Canada
“the Leonora of our time” San Francisco Sentinel
PUSHKIN ROMANCES
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Ivari Ilja, piano
DE 3392
Romances based on poems by Alexander Pushkin
Borodin, Cui, Glinka, Dargomyzhskiy, Medtner, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sviridov, Tchaikovsky, Vlasov
Operatic superstar Dmitri Hvorostovsky has become the supreme interpreter of the Russian Romance, with its rich resource of music and poetry.
This album offers seventeen songs, or “romances,” all composed to texts from works of Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s greatest poet. The composers represented here have helped define the true meaning of the Russian Romance, and have created some of the world’s greatest song literature. Choosing only romances inspired by Pushkin texts, Hvorostovsky has upped the ante to make a musical statement no other singer has attempted.
TCHAIKOVSKY ROMANCES
DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY, baritone
IVARI ILJA, piano
Operatic superstar Dmitri Hvorostovsky has become the supreme interpreter of the Russian Romance, with its rich resource of music and poetry. In this generous program the great baritone soars vocally and plumbs emotional depths as he delivers definitive performances of a wide range of Tchaikovsky’s masterpieces.
“The sheer beauty of Hvorostovsky’s voice approaches legendary status” San Francisco Examiner • “…some of the most beautiful and eloquent sounds that can currently be heard from any human throat… His voice is redolent of luxury: beautiful tone, pinpoint intonation, elegant, and impassioned delivery.” The New York Times
J.S. BACH FLUTE SONATAS
JOSHUA SMITH, flute
JORY VINIKOUR, harpsichord
Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1030
Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1020
Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV 1031
Partita in A Minor for solo flute, BWV 1013
Sonata in A Major, BWV 1032
This album is dedicated to the memory of Delos founder Amelia S. Haygood, who especially loved Bach, and would have celebrated these fresh and invigorating performances.
— Carol Rosenberger
J.S. Bach
Flute Sonatas with Continuo Musical Offering Trio Sonata
Joshua Smith, flute
Jory Vinikour, harpsichord
Ann Marie Morgan, baroque cello
Allison Guest Edberg, baroque violin
DE 3408
“Flute phenomenon” Joshua Smith’s first disc of Bach Flute Sonatas with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour was hailed as “virtuosic and lyrical” by Audiophilia and “superb” by The New Yorker (DE 3402). “A fabulous recording. Run, don’t walk, to get a copy,” wrote Pan, The Flute Magazine.
Josh and Jory’s second Bach program is as inspiring as their first. Here, they are joined by Ann Marie Morgan and Allison Edberg in illuminating and wholly engaging performances.
REINVENTING GUITAR!
Smaro Gregoriadou
New Perspectives in Guitar Sound
A “must-have” for guitar enthusiasts, Reinventing Guitar brings a rich array of novelties from young Greek guitar virtuoso and composer Smaro Gregoriadou. She plays music from the Baroque to the present on three guitars differing in type, number and material of strings, timbre and tunings, all built by Yorgos Kertsopoulos of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics. Kertsopoulos’ instruments blend exhaustive historical and aesthetic research with practical acoustic applications for current audiences.
iDuo
Rachmaninoff • Ravel • Debussy
Andrey Gugnin
Vadym Kholodenko
pianists
iDuo came into being in 2007, when the brilliant young pianists Andrey Gugnin and Vadym Kholodenko combined their skills as soloists to form a vibrant new piano duo. In their very first year of concert appearances, touring Russia and Italy, iDuo was praised for stunning performances, and was a prizewinner in the 2008 San Marino competition.