In 1973 the indomitable Amelia Haygood founded “a label with a strong personality that not only attracted a host of major performers but which also gained plaudits for its technical excellence.” Delos quickly became a leader in digital recording, partnering with America’s finest artists like Carol Rosenberger, Gerard Schwarz, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra,…
“There is an attractive gutsiness to the tone of Nina Kotova’s cello playing whether in the plangent Slavic tone of her upper register or in the folkie roughness of the lower. It is a beautiful sound but one with the tinge of a life lived to it. Her manner of playing is similarly unabashed. Her…
The March/April 2023 issue of Fanfare Magazine features a rave review from Henry Fogel for Francesco Lecce-Chong, the Santa Rosa Symphony, Zuill Bailey, and Elizabeth Dorman’s recording of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Cello Concerto & Other Works: “we should never take for granted a composer who writes music that is admired by professional musicians and at…
The Crossover Media Podcast hosted Mark Abel and Hila Plitmann to discuss Spectrum! Listen now on Spotify or on your favorite podcast app: See the full writeup of the Podcast on Crossover Media’s blog on Medium.
Piet Koornhof and Albie van Schalkwyk’s Giya Kancheli: 18 Miniatures & Middelheim recording gets high marks from Raymond Tuttle in the March/April 2023 issue of Fanfare Magazine: “These are late works, and both are worthy of attention. …there will be listeners who buy this CD and listen to the 18 Miniatures with a rapt expression…
Constantine Orbelian, the Kaunas City Symphony, and General Director Algimantas Treikauskas have been awarded The Golden Disc Award for high artistic level and intensive concert activity in 2022! Since 2001, the award has been given to the best performers of the year in 4 categories: instrumentalist, vocalist, instrumental or vocal ensemble, choir, and orchestra, along with jazz…
“Mark Abel continues to demonstrate his versatility in the works on the newest Delos release of his music, ‘Spectrum’, a generous two-disc helping of song-cycles, chamber pieces and excerpts from an opera still roaming around the California-based composer’s fertile brain. As the previous recordings revealed, Abel writes in a poetic tonal style, at times reminiscent…
It’s so hard to believe that five years have gone by without our beloved Dmitri Hvorostovsky! It was truly a gift that I was able to work alongside this extraordinary human being for almost 20 years, bringing his tremendous talent to every major city in Russia, to the European music capitals, and to the major musical…
Eleonor Bindman’s Bach: Partitas recording makes an appearance in Fanfare Magazine’s “Not To Be Missed” section after a rave review from Raymond Tuttle: “Bindman takes issue with performers who speed through this music—and there are plenty of them. Their work is impressive on a technical level, but not always musically illuminating. It’s not that she…
Mark Abel shares this photo of a pin given to him by Ali Olshan’s mother, who is Ukrainian. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both Mark and Carol Rosenberger have been thinking of the “Great Gate of Kyiv” movement from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and were reminded of pianist John Browning’s remarkable Delos recording, which…
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,…
Delos is celebrating Beethoven’s 250th with a 25% Off Sale on our digital downloads of select Beethoven recordings now through December 31st! Browse the collection of titles below, start saving, start listening, and blow out some candles for the Immortal Beethoven!
“Wait for me, And I’ll be back. But please, just wait.” One evening in the summer of 2001, Delos founder Amelia Haygood and I were relaxing with Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Constantine Orbelian in a Moscow restaurant after a recording session for Dmitri’s Verdi Arias album (DE 3292). Dmitri and Constantine began describing some of their favorite…
Get it today! The wonderful Conspirare chamber choir, known for its interpretive depth and otherworldly sonic lushness, offers another of its captivating programs—this time joined by three superb guitar quartets—in a program remarkably relevant to our time. Conspirare’s 2019 Delos album, The Hope of Loving (DE 3578), was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance in 2020. The concert…
The New York Times has a new series featuring artists and critics at large sharing their favorite recordings “That Will Make You Love the Violin” — and include two recent Delos recordings in their “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin” playlist on Spotify. “Jörg Widmanns’s book of 24 duos for violin and…
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