Tenor Kristian Benedikt began his career as a lyric tenor in his native Lithuania, but has since blossomed into one of the opera world’s finest dramatic tenors in challenging roles like Otello. His immensely powerful and dark-hued voice enables him to shine in several of Wagner’s “Heldentenor” roles as well; yet he remains a highly…
On Monday, it was announced that the 2019 International Opera Awards had selected soprano Asmik Grigorian as Female Singer of the Year and tenor Charles Castronovo as Male Singer of the Year! Ms. Grigorian is the featured soprano in Delos’s audio recording, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of War, Peace, Love and Sorrow (DE 3517), with distinguished Maestro Constantine…
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…
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…
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…
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…
April 1, 2019 UPDATE The winners have been announced and To Play Again has received a Silver Medal Finalist Award. The Story Circle Network has announced the 2018 Finalists for the Sarton Women’s Book Awards. The Story Circle Network is an international nonprofit community of women writers and the Book Awards are given annually to…
Our new release, Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem – In Memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky is now available for HD Download as a complete concert film in iTunes! iTunes Store – Purchase and Rental Originally released in October 2018 on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital Download, and also now available on CD! In the wake of the…
Originally released in October 2018 on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital Download, our Verdi: Messa Da Requiem recording In Memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky is now available on CD! In the wake of the beloved Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s untimely passing in November 2017, tributes, memorials and musical event dedications have flowed non-stop. But none thus far…
The San Francisco Classical Voice has published their year-end wrap-up of Bay Area recordings and offers some wonderful praise for two Delos releases: Mark Abel: Time and Distance “Sonoma composer Mark Abel offers listeners food for thought with his signature fusion of classical, rock, and jazz and powerful content. Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann brings her…
It’s hardly surprising that orchestras and opera houses everywhere are still mounting memorial concerts and other events honoring the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky (known to us at Delos as “Dima”): perhaps the greatest Verdi baritone of our times. The latest celebration of his matchless art is today’s special concert in Kaunas, Lithuania, where Delos’s two…
Fanfare Magazine has added Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording to their “Not To Be Missed” section with a new interview and review from Jerry Dubins: “There is no way that Brahms’s original piano four-hands version or his arrangements for piano two hands of these dances could ever achieve the tonal…
Delos is proud to announce that the final recording by the late, lamented Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky — Rigoletto (DE 3522) —has been nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Opera Recording category. The album was released just days before Hvorostovsky’s untimely death from brain cancer last November. During the great singer’s last two…
MusicWeb International has released their critics’ recordings of the year for 2018, and Robert Farr has nominated our new release of Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem in memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky: “In a year that saw the death of two of the finest opera singers of their generation, Montserrat Caballé and, at the young age…
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