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…
The December 2022–January 2023 issue of The Whole Note features a wonderful review for our Mark Abel: Spectrum release: “Not only do we meet Isabel Bayrakdarian, a haunting soprano singing emotionally in praise of three women artists we might never have known if Abel had not set their lives to song, but we find ourselves…
“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…
Grego Applegate Edwards’ Classical-Modern Music Review has a great recommendation for Mark Abel: Spectrum recording: “Listening to this set numerous times reveals a composer of lyrical gifts, a crafter of vibrant melodic-harmonic landscapes of a ravishing sort, perhaps in the footsteps but not the actual shoes of a Samuel Barber (the Knoxville and such). There…
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…
The Colburn School and James Conlon’s recording of Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff got a grand feature in a San Francisco Classical Voice‘s article highlighting The Music of Persecuted 20th-Century Composers: “Of the Recovered Voices composers who were persecuted, exiled, or in some cases murdered by the Nazis, Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942) was, for me, the…
Ron Schepper offers an in-depth review of Mark Abel’s new album, Spectrum, in Textura Magazine: “While appreciation for Mark Abel’s music is undeniably enhanced by familiarity with releases such as The Cave of Wondrous Voice (2020), Time and Distance (2018), and Home is a Harbor (2016), it’s not required when the double-CD set Spectrum, the sixth album on Delos by the American…
The Arts Fuse’s Jonathan Blumhofer reviews The Colburn School’s Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff recording. “Shapeshifter, a new album from musicians at the Colburn School and conductor James Conlon, shines a spotlight on, mostly, Schulhoff’s mature chamber music. It is, by and large, a strongly played effort that makes a powerful case for the vitality…
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.…
October 16, 2022 would have been Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s sixtieth birthday. Delos is pleased to see the many tributes for “Dima” being published from across the globe. We were especially thrilled to see the Opera News tribute and playlist dedicated to Dmitri’s “Enduring Beauty”. If you haven’t seen it, you can find the full playlist on…
Opera News named Gathering: Songs by Ben Moore a September 2022 issue Critic’s Choice! “This album joins a starry array of artists to perform romantically lush and vibrant songs by Ben Moore (b. 1960), whose compositions range from American-songbook selections to art songs, song cycles and three operas… Moore’s compositions, some of which receive their first…
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
Textura Magazine features Ben Moore and the new Gathering recording on the home page alongside a marvelous new review: “There’s so much to like about this collection of songs by Ben Moore (b. 1960), it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with the material itself, twenty-two songs that span the spectrum of emotional…
Lynn René Bayley gives a strong recommendation to Ellen Taafe Zwilich: Cello Concerto and Other Works featuring Zuill Bailey and the Santa Rosa Symphony: “Zwilich’s well-known combination of tonal, melodic music with modes and modern harmonies tossed in for flavor are clearly on display here, but so too is Zuill Bailey’s cello. In fact…I can’t…
Oksana Dyka, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s In Questa Reggia recording is an Opera News Critic’s Choice! “Ukrainian Soprano Oksana Dyka’s debut solo album is a welcome throwback… In Questa Reggia, which takes its name from the title track, is a statement piece, featuring twelve of the most well-known and difficult arias in…
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