The International Clarinet Association’s May 2021 Reviews feature a wonderful breakdown of Mark Abel’s The Cave of Wondrous Voice featuring David Shifrin, Fred Sherry, Hila Plitmann, Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker, Dominic Cheli, Carol Rosenberger, and Sarah Beck: “The first work on the album, Intuition’s Dance, is performed by clarinetist, David Shifrin and pianist, Carol Rosenberger. This spirited piece…
Gramophone Magazine critic Donald Rosenberg reviews The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel in the August issue: “As he has demonstrated on previous recordings of songs and operas, [Mark Abel] treats words with shapely care, establishing vibrant and urgent contexts for the interaction of voice and instruments. Tsvetaeva’s verses make…
The ArtsFuse’s Jonathan Blumhofer reviews The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music of Mark Abel: “One would find it hard to beat the all-star lineup featured in The Cave of Wondrous Voice, a new… survey of vocal and chamber music by the California-based composer Mark Abel. David Shifrin, Carol Rosenberger, Hila Plitmann, and Fred Sherry headline…
Pizzicato Magazine gives a Four-Star rating to The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel in a review by Uwe Krusch: “truly outstanding artists… bring [Mark Abel’s] creations to vibrant musical life. Their devotion to the music at hand is heard in their collective ability to shape and sustain their interpretations. … [Clarinetist…
Now Available Worldwide! The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel The music in this album sings and dances, in Abel’s “colorful blend of styles that serve the emotional nature of each work to bracing and poignant effect” (Gramophone). It further clarifies why Abel is “one of the most interesting figures in American contemporary…
With Mark Abel’s new album “The Cave of Wondrous Voice” dropping on May 1, this seems like the right moment for these shots of legendary chamber players David Shifrin, Fred Sherry and Carol Rosenberger rehearsing Mark’s “Clarinet Trio” prior to its recording at Oktaven Audio in Mount Vernon, NY. The images were taken by Leland…
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,…
KRCB Public Radio’s “A Novel Idea” program broadcast an interview with Carol Rosenberger about her new memoir, To Play Again: A Memoir of Musical Survival. Listen below and in the KRCB “A Novel Idea” Podcast in iTunes: To Play Again 2019 Sarton Women’s Book Award Finalist 2018 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL WINNER Explore…
Carol Rosenberger’s memoir, To Play Again, has a new ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on Amazon: “To Play Again, is Carol Rosenberger’s gift to us all, as the alchemy between content and the subjective experience of reading her story lives on long after the ending. Her journey compels us to once again believe in the impossible simply because…
Voix des Arts critic, Joseph Newsome, reviews Mark Abel’s Time And Distance recording featuring Hila Plitmann, Janelle DeStefano, Carol Rosenberger, Tali Tadmor, and Burce Carver: “Too plentiful to enumerate are the passages in this music that are so wrenchingly private that they may compel the listener to ask, ‘How can this man whom I have…
You may already be aware that the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are Europe’s rough equivalent to the classical end of our own Grammys, with distinguished jury members representing 16 different countries ranging from Turkey to Russia. Delos has been honored to receive eight ICMA nominations from 2016 to 2018, making Delos one of the handful…
Gramophone Magazine reviews Mark Abel’s new Time and Distance recording in their October 2018 issue: Mark Abel’s fourth CD on Delos is rich in those moments of inspiration when a composer first comes under the spell of poetry. His marriages of subtly charged music with an eclectic modernist twist to emotionally provocative, introspective texts work…
BBC Music Magazine‘s August 2018 issue features a new review for Carol Rosenberger’s To Play Again memoir: “To Play Again reveals [Carol Rosenberger’s] subsequent path back to the keyboard, even when doctors warned she should simply try to live a ‘normal’ life. To Rosenberger, life without the piano is unthinkable, and how she managed to…
Culture Spot LA‘s Theodore Bell offers an in-depth review of Delos’ latest recording of music by composer Mark Abel – Time and Distance – featuring Hila Plitmann, Janelle DeStefano, Carol Rosenberger, Tali Tadmor, and Bruce Carver: “Plitmann brings her exceptional talent to three works, the first of which, “Those Who Loved Medusa,” links the modern…
TheaterJones.com‘s Cathy Ritchie has a new review for Carol Rosenberger’s To Play Again memoir: “I confess I was unfamiliar with the pianist Carol Rosenberger before this memoir came along. Mea culpa to me, as she has had a prolific recording, performing, teaching, and disc-producing career over the past four decades. But it’s primarily her struggles with physical…
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