Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson’s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance! “Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, and Eric Whitacre might have to slide down the bench a little to make room for a newcomer. … Runestad’s music tends to be luminous,…
Stephen Costello, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s A Te, O Cara: Stephen Costello Sings Bel Canto recording has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits.… The Kaunas City Symphony, under the…
The 2020 International Classical Music Awards have been announced, and Delos was represented by three albums in three categories! Contemporary Music Spring Forward David Shifrin, the Miró, Dover, and Jasper String Quartet’s present Spring Forward: Music for Clarinet and String Quartet featuring music by Peter Schickele, Richard Danielpour, and Aaron Jay Kernis. “everyone involved in…
Rafael de Acha gives a five-star review to David Shifrin and the Dover, and Harlem Quartets recording, Clarinet Quintets for Our Time: “a testimony to the riches of American chamber music. … The album features three selections each averaging 18 minutes in length, each distinctive in its compositional style, two impeccably played by the Dover Quartet,…
MusicWeb International critic Steve Arloff reviews David Shifrin and the Miró, Dover, and Jasper String Quartets recording, Spring Forward: Music for Clarinet and String Quartet: “I find myself repeating the same impressions when reviewing works by American composers: they are always fascinating in their exploration of new ideas, and long may it remain so. There…
Candid shots from a pre-recording rehearsal in Santa Monica for the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva,” a collaboration between composer Mark Abel and translator Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, chair of the Russian Department at Bowdoin College. The musicians are the renowned soprano Hila Plitmann, pianist and Delos label director Carol Rosenberger, and Sarah Beck,…
The Absolute Sound’s Stephen Estep gives a four-star Music & Sonics rating to Christopher Atzinger’s Piano Music of John Knowles Paine recording: “John Knowles Paine may not be a household name, but his music is firmly in the lineage of Field, Chopin, and Schumann. … These selections reveal his talent and skill, a subtle sense…
Violinist Dawn Wohn and pianist Esther Park‘s beautiful new album, Perspectives, features works from a vast variety of female composers including Nocturne by Lili Boulanger and Legenda by Vítězslava Kaprálová— both composers died tragically while in their 20s. Commissioned especially for this album, Star-Crossed by Jung Sun Kang tells the story of two unlucky lovers. Deserted Garden and Elfentanz by Florence Price highlight the talents of this African American composer whose works are just beginning…
“‘What a gorgeous voice—like a Rolls Royce. She must sing in the best theaters in the world!’, said the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky about Veronika Dzhioevo. And it is a fine voice. Moreover it is used with dramatic imagination… She has a voice that is even from top to bottom and has its own distinct color.…
Patrick Hanudel reviews Robert Dilutis and the Mellifera Quartet’s Clarinet Classics at Riversdale recording in the November/December 2019 issue of American Record Guide: “DiLutis directs the recital with a clear tone, a silky legato, expressive phrasing, and brilliant technique; and he grabs the listener in the unaccompanied selections with a wonderful variety of ideas and…
Stephen Estep recommends Christopher Atzinger’s new Piano Music of John Knowles Paine recording in the 2019 November/December issue of American Record Guide: “John Knowles Paine, trained in Europe, was America’s first widely accepted composer and first professor of music; he taught John Alden Carpenter, Frederick Converse, Arthur Foote, and many others. His several piano pieces…
Provintia, “Sunset of Chihkan Tower” (赤崁夕照) by Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (b. 1970) Taiwanese-American composer Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, winner of the first Biennial Brandenburg Symphony International Composition Competition and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, was educated in Taiwan and the United States. She received a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio…
American Record Guide reviews Conspirare’s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad in their November/December 2019 Issue: “Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, and Eric Whitacre might have to slide down the bench a little to make room for a newcomer. … Runestad’s music tends to be luminous, spiritually-charged, enmeshed with the texts that inspired…
Gramophone reviews Veronika Dzhioeva’s Ritorna Vincitor! recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony in the 2019 Awards Issue: “Though it clocks it at just under an hour, there’s plenty of bang for your buck in this high-voltage recital by a rising soprano … Veronika Dzhioeva has the impressive breath control and cutting edge…
Gramophone Magazine’s Awards Issue has a review for Conspirare’s recording of The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad: “Thoreau’s words go far in encapsulating many of the works on this first full disc of the American composer’s music, especially as performed by the sterling Austin-based choral ensemble Conspirare. Runestad has wedded exquisite music…
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