David Reynolds reviews Kristian Benedikt‘s Delos debut recording, Tenore di Forza in the September/October 2019 issue of American Record Guide: “Kristian Benedikt is a clarion, call-to-arms type of tenor that we are in sore need of right now. … His top notes ring out massively and, I suspect, are even more effective in the house,…
American Record Guide‘s November/December 2018 issue has a detailed new review for the Asia / America New Music Institute‘s new Transcendent recording: “Matthew Aucoin’s Two Whitman Songs (‘The Sleepers’ and ‘A Clear Midnight’) capture the magnificent and removed nature of Whitman’s poetry. There are so many shades of silver in this music; its gleaming darkness…
American Record Guide critic, Ralph Locke, declares John Osborn’s A Tribute to Gilbert Duprez recording a “wonderfully fresh way of putting together a ‘calling-card’ CD”: “…a gifted and intelligent singer who has something to offer. Osborn can be heard, on CD or DVD, in the main tenor roles of Rossini’s Otello, Semiramide, and William Tell,…
American Record Guide‘s Richard Sininger has a new review for the newly announced BBC Music Magazine Award nominated release, All Who Wander featuring Jamie Barton and Brian Zeger: “I first became aware of Jamie Barton in 2007, when she was one of an exceptional trio of women (with Amber Wagner and Angela Meade) who won…
American Record Guide reviews Angelique Zuluaga and Gwendolyn Mok’s Poldowski: Art Songs recording: “Delos serves up an exquisite selection, including several world premieres. Poldowski’s word settings are sensitive, the vocal writing centered very much in the middle of the voice. She rarely asks the singer to sing particularly high or low. One gets the impression…
Order Now “Carol Rosenberger, director of Delos and a former pupil of Boulanger, and pianist Lucy Mauro have done music lovers a great service in bringing so many of these unknown pieces to the public, many for the first time. … The soloists are excellent. … [Edwin] Crossley-Mercer’s sinuous, sexy voice makes one want to…
Order Now “What is an American cellist is doing in this kind of music? He has been influenced by certain festivals he has performed in, but his primary move in the Spanish direction is probably his friend and colleague, Alfredo Montero, a native of Spain who has worked with him since they met in 1999.…
Order Now “I had never heard of Stefano Secco before getting this. But I see that, at age 34, he already has had a substantial career, singing major roles at important houses in Europe. … Here he performs 15 of the world’s most beloved tenor arias—most of them Italian— with solid tone, perfect intonation, and…
Order Now American Record Guide critic, Luke Pfeil reviews the Poulenc Trio‘s new Creation recording, and comes away as a fan of Octavio Vazquez’s Triptych: “The Triptych by Spanish composer Octavio Vazquez is a fine work and the strongest performance on the program. His music is fresh and original, with some echoes of Shostakovich and…
Order Now A couple of years ago I reviewed a disc of Rossini arias by Lawrence Brownlee, also with the Kaunas forces under Constantine Orbelian. Now we have the other two major bel canto composers, Bellini and Donizetti. This recording is another fine performance by Mr Brownlee. We hear the same lovely tone in these…
Order Now “Krysztof Penderecki’s contribution is written in memory of Bach. It was originally written for cello, part of his 1994 Divertimento, but he transcribed it himself for viola. It is a lovely, thoughtful piece.…Elliott Carter’s 2007 Figment 4 continues the thoughtful trend…After all of this relative modernity, Aram Khachaturian’s 12-minute Sonata-Song, written late in…
“Paul Moravec’s Amorisms… is ethereal and complements the texts beautifully. I can’t comment on how this works with the ballet, but it works well as music and is given a fine sendoff by these excellent singers. The brilliant Tempest Fantasy (2003) is … freely tonal and spectacularly virtuosic, it deservedly won the Pulitzer in 2004.…
“Looking over the cast bios (for “Home Is a Harbor”), one is struck by the fact that nearly all the participants in this project are California-based, making the point very clearly that (the state) has become an important cultural hub in the country, and Mr. Abel is at the forefront of its musical life. The…
American Record Guide critic Alan Becker has a new rave review for Carol Rosenberger’s Theme & Variations recording: “…it makes good sense that she bring our attention once again to her many pianistic attributes, and her enthusiastic notes add to this attractive release as well. Having been robbed of some of her most productive years…
American Record Guide declares our Simon Boccanegra recording “a stunning achievement”! “[Dmitri Hvorostovsky] is unquestionably magnificent and helps make this recording—Delos’s first venture into recording a full opera—a stunning achievement. The entire cast is everything you could want in this opera. Fritolli’s …lustrous and sensitive portrayal of the vulnerable Maria/Amelia is exquisite. Abdrakazov is a…
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