Grego Applegate Edwards’ Classical-Modern Music Review gives a strong recommendation for Mark Abel’s Time and Distance recording: “These are most definitely songs for our time, Modern surely, not outgoingly in the sense that they are not in an avant garde mode so much as they resound with a most thoroughgoing, advanced harmonic-melodic musicality. They say lyrically…
Critic Grego Applegate Edwards breaks down the new Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss & Wagner recording on his Classical-Modern Music Review site: “Strauss in many ways was an original extension of Wagner, so grouping the two together is not at all a stretch. And both wrote lieder, Strauss especially. Consequently when an excellent Canadian soprano treats…
Grego Applegate Edwards’s Classical-Modern Music Review has a new feature on the Ben Moore Song Cycles recording Dear Theo: “The three cycles represented in this disk show [Ben Moore’s] talent for dramatic musical settings of interesting texts. As the composer remarks in the liners, all three have as underlying theme the wish for freedom. ……
Classical-Modern Music Review‘s Grego Applegate Edwards is “captivated” by the art songs by Mark Abel in his latest Delos release, Terrain of the Heart: “The art song cycle today? I don’t hear all that much of it as composed in the present… West Coast American composer Mark Abel is an exponent who excels in the…
Grego Applegate Edwards calls Sean Hickey a “natural” in his Classical-Modern Music Review feature of Cursive: “Sean Hickey composes like a ‘natural’, meaning that his music strikes one as a kind of inevitable expression of a personal musical self. … they are extremely well-crafted, expressive works that sit solidly with the listener… Philip Edward Fisher…
Classical-Modern Music reviewer Grego Applegate Edwards has a new review of Sean Hickey — Concertos on his blog: “American composer Sean Hickey (b. 1970) comes through as a talent to be heeded on the two-work recording of his music, Concertos … This is music that has everything going for it — melodic, heroic solo parts,…
“Abel has crafted an…excellently written work that is a joy to hear. The soloists and orchestra do a terrific job with the score, and no doubt it could be considered a triumph.” – Classical-Modern Music Review
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