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…
Out Now Cellist Jonah Kim and pianist Sean Kennard have been making music together since they were teenagers at the Curtis Institute of Music and together they have played almost every sonata in the standard repertoire. The Rachmaninoff Sonata and the Sonata by Samuel Barber hold a special place for them: The Rachmaninoff was the first sonata they worked on together, and Kim’s…
Out Now: So Hallow’d The Time: Christmas Music by Brian Galante and Stephen Paulus This release—the Taylor Festival Choir’s second album for Delos—features original Christmas works by two distinguished American composers: Brian Galante, whose choral works and arrangements have met with worldwide acclaim; and the late, great Stephen Paulus, whose many choral and orchestral compositions…
Now Available Worldwide! A wonderful “concert version” of the revered Komitas Divine Liturgy! Here the great Komitas work is transformed into a “concert mass” in the first-ever recording of this appealing mixed choir version. This version was beautifully arranged and edited by the brilliant Armenian composer Vache Sharafyan. In his arrangement, the added colors of…
Now Available Worldwide! Ekaterina Siurina sings French and Italian arias with Charles Castronovo in duets Internationally renowned soprano Ekaterina Siurina, in her first album for Delos, presents a choice array of beautifully sung French and Italian opera arias by Gustave Charpentier, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Siurina’s husband, acclaimed tenor Charles…
Now Available Worldwide! The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel The music in this album sings and dances, in Abel’s “colorful blend of styles that serve the emotional nature of each work to bracing and poignant effect” (Gramophone). It further clarifies why Abel is “one of the most interesting figures in American contemporary…
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