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.…
Composer Mark Abel discusses the lives and careers of Anne Wiazemsky, Pina Pellicer, and Larisa Shepitko – the three subjects of his song cycle, “Trois Femmes du Cinema”. The cycle appears on Abel’s Delos album Spectrum! The work is sung by soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, accompanied by pianist Carol Rosenberger. Anne Wiazemsky Pina Pellicer Larisa Shepitko
As a classical music pianist and artist, I embrace beauty. I seek to share with audiences the powerful emotions that make music so magical, and I try to make people feel that beauty and be part of it. This has been my world, my mission and my mindset. I cherish it; I always will! Such…
Delos is thrilled to share the Recording Academy’s announcement that Conspirare’s The Singing Guitar has been nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance! Best Choral Performance The Singing Guitar Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Estelí Gomez; Austin Guitar Quartet, Douglas Harvey, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet & Texas Guitar Quartet; Conspirare) The wonderful Conspirare chamber choir,…
We’re excited to share the news that Delos conductor and pianist Constantine Orbelian has been appointed to the position of Music Director and Principal Conductor for the New York City Opera! New York City Opera (Michael Capasso, General Director) has announced the appointment of internationally acclaimed conductor and pianist Constantine Orbelian as the company’s Music…
“When I listened to The Cave of Wondrous Voice, I was absolutely entranced by the lyricism and your ability to create these marvelous strands of melody. It’s just gorgeous.” —Rob Kennedy, WCPE North Carolina’s “Research Triangle” – the area encompassing Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill – is home to WCPE (theclassicalstation.org). A non-commercial, independent, listener-supported…
Remembering premiere cellist Alexander Buzlov, who tragically passed away this past weekend (November 8, 2020) at the age of 37. Born in Moscow in 1983, Alexander Buzlov (also spelled Alexandre Bouzlov) was one of the most talented cellists of his generation. He won numerous awards and prizes, including the Grand Prix and the Audience Award…
Available Today As the innovative, world-renowned guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou says in her notes for this stunning new recording, her fourth for Delos, its music offers “encouragement and hope,” and illuminates with “a different kind of light, a different sort of fire.” The program begins with her beautiful transcription of Bach’s beloved Solo Violin Sonata #2 and offers…
Available Today! Virtuoso trumpeter Andrew Balio’s superlative transcriptions of music by J.S. Bach delight the listener with both new and familiar sounds. Bach affirmed that “the aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” At the end of his compositions he…
Delos congratulates pianist Dominic Cheli, who appears on Mark Abel’s new album The Cave of Wondrous Voice, on his award of $50,000 by The American Pianists Association for being a finalist in the APA’s American Pianists Award competition. Four other young finalists are being similarly honored a year before the deciding round, which will be…
Bowdoin College’s News Department has just published a piece about Mark Abel’s collaboration with Alyssa Gillespie, chair of the school’s Russian department, which resulted in the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva.” (The piece provides) a good introduction to a poet who still has a “semi-obscure status in America’s world of letters,” said Abel.…
Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson’s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance! “Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, and Eric Whitacre might have to slide down the bench a little to make room for a newcomer. … Runestad’s music tends to be luminous,…
Stephen Costello, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s A Te, O Cara: Stephen Costello Sings Bel Canto recording has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits.… The Kaunas City Symphony, under the…
The 2020 International Classical Music Awards have been announced, and Delos was represented by three albums in three categories! Contemporary Music Spring Forward David Shifrin, the Miró, Dover, and Jasper String Quartet’s present Spring Forward: Music for Clarinet and String Quartet featuring music by Peter Schickele, Richard Danielpour, and Aaron Jay Kernis. “everyone involved in…
Candid shots from a pre-recording rehearsal in Santa Monica for the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva,” a collaboration between composer Mark Abel and translator Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, chair of the Russian Department at Bowdoin College. The musicians are the renowned soprano Hila Plitmann, pianist and Delos label director Carol Rosenberger, and Sarah Beck,…
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