Order Now! “To sum up, in their Brahms offering, Uchida/Formosa and Delos have given us a modern performance and recording of excellence. The pairing with an impressive performance of a relatively unfamiliar work brings an added enticement. This issue will provide lovers of romantic music with many rewards.” —Rob W McKenzie, MusicWeb International Amazon Music…
Crescendo Magazine hears “an intimate fervor” in the new Taylor Festival Choir recording of Michael McGlynn’s Celtic Mass and James MacMillan’s Mass: Order Now “These two masses have many points in common. Each is divided into nine parts and both bask in a serene atmosphere, where meditation and fervor reign – an intimate fervor, internalized,…
Lawrence Brownlee wins over a bel canto skeptic at Opera Obsession with the newly released Allegro io son recording: Pre-Order “The artistry of Lawrence Brownlee, though, drew me to his new album of Bellini and Donizetti, Allegro io son, and I’ve been listening to it repeatedly. It’s a thoughtfully put-together disc, and one that admirably…
Order Now With Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann preparing to give the world premiere of Mark Abel’s The Palm Trees Are Restless in a few weeks, we’re pleased to read new praise for the song cycle in Gregory Berg’s new review of the Home Is a Harbor package in the Journal of Singing. Referring to Abel…
Order Now “Mark Abel has devoted most of his composing career to writing song cycles, including those represented on two previous Delos releases. The current disc is a recording of his first opera, Home is a Harbor. Abel spent some formative years as a rock musician, and he has a knack for integrating catchy, interesting…
Order Now Buffalo News gives Amorisms 3/4 Stars in a review titled Paul Moravec shows why he won the Pulitzer: “Moravec is a composer of near-total charm and appeal. The 2014 choral piece ‘Amorisms’ is a ballet setting of ‘five Shakespearean aphorisms about love’ (‘the course of true love never did run smooth.’) The Pulitzer-winning…
Order Now “Mark Abel is a California-based composer with an already impressive body of vocal work … . With The Palm Trees Are Restless, Abel has set the haunting and very sensual lyrics of Los Angeles poet Kate Gale to great effect. Premiered by Grammy-award winning soprano Hila Plitmann, Palm Trees is an excellent choice…
Pre-Order Voix des Arts names Lawrence Brownlee’s upcoming Allegro Io Son an August Recording of the Month! “Supported with ideal grace and enthusiasm by the expertly-scaled singing and playing of the Kaunas State Choir and Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra and the alert, stylish conducting of Constantine Orbelian, tenor Lawrence Brownlee provides with the eleven selections…
Dennis Adams translates a fabulous new Stefano Secco Crescendo review from Musique pour tous: Stefano Secco: the flexibility of perfection! Order Now “Here we have a very fine album by the Italian tenor Stefano Secco, who comes to us by way of the Delos label. A successful artist’s true calling card, this recording shows us…
New review from ResMusica: Order now “In an album recorded after his triumphant return to the Met at the start of the 2015 season, Dmitri Hvorostovsky offers his public a gallery of Russian operatic hero-portrayals exploring themes of War, peace, love and sorrow. Met audiences accorded him a triumphant welcome last fall, after his great return…
Order Now More ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews on on Amazon! “I have found previous works of Mark Abel both beautiful and compelling; “The Dream Gallery” and “Terrain of the Heart”, but “Home is a Harbor” is a masterwork that has provided me with a new experience. Never an opera fan, (with the exception of Mozart’s works), my…
Order now “[Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s] new release recorded last October…reaffirms that he sounds as good as ever. … The magical opening from Prokofiev’s “War and Peace” finds him in terrific form, moving from dejection to hope as he overhears Natasha sing of her joy in life. This is followed by excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Mazeppa” and “Iolanta.”…
Pre-Order Joseph Newsome goes in-depth with Antonio Soler: Six Concerti for Two Keyboards featuring harpsichordists Philippe LeRoy and Jory Vinikour on Voix des Arts: “In truth, a well-meaning inclination to proclaim every piece recovered from neglect a rediscovered masterpiece is no more beneficial than dismissing unheard music as deserving its obscurity, but one of the…
New Times San Luis Obispo profiles Mark Abel and his new Home is a Harbor recording: “The sounds of the ocean waves crashing against the shore whirl about and hit the ear in a melodic way. Their siren song is both enchanting and indecipherable, with a pull as strong as a riptide. The vocal waves…
“Borodin’s well known Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor need no introduction. Those jollifications of the fearsome steppe warriors and their molls make up the CD’s longest single track and the whole thing emerges as an enjoyable romp that’s well suited to arrangement for Russian guitars. Once again, the familiarity of the original music makes it…
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