Remy Franck gives his highest marks to Gevorg Hakobyan’s new Arias of Love & Sorrow recording with John Fisher, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony in the Pizzicato Journal: “an exciting program that is well suited to Hakobyan’s dramatic voice. There is not a aria on this CD where I would say that Habokyan’s…
Rafael de Acha gives a glowing review of Gevorg Hakobyan’s Delos debut album, Arias of Love & Sorrow: “In one of the finest calling-card débuts we have heard in quite some time – the DELOS recording ARIAS OF LOVE & SORROW – Gevorg Hakobyan brings keen interpretive intelligence and a gift for coloring his sound to suit the…
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…
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…
Phil Muse reviews Oksana Dyka, Constantine Orbelian, and Kaunas City Symphony’s In Questa Reggia recording in the June issue of the Atlanta Audio Club’s Classical Corner: “Oksana Dyka is a phenomenal singer with a very mature soprano voice for one who still appears to be in her youth. … That mature voice throughout every part of her…
Phil Muse reviews Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, and Constantine Orbelian’s I Puritani recording in the June issue of the Atlanta Audio Club’s Classical Corner: “Sarah Coburn has all the qualifications to be the Bellini soprano for her own generation, as witness the stratospheric heights to which she soars in her two arias as Elvira in…
The UK’s Opera Magazine’s February 2022 issue features a new review for Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, and Constantine Orbelian’s I Puritani recording: “Coburn…combines technical accomplishment with sensitive bel canto singing… accurate and affecting. Lawrence Brownlee’s free emission and tonal vitality are prime assets among his credentials for an eager, dynamic Arturo also notable for keen…
“This Delos release of Bellini’s Puritani is another example of the excellent work of Kaunas City Symphony of Lithuania under the direction of its principal conductor Constantine Orbelian. He elicits a clean, warm sound from the orchestra, with especially fine playing in the horn and woodwind sections. Tempos are well chosen and the dramatic pacing leads…
Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas State Symphony’s I Puritani gets a 4.5-star rating and Recording of the Month distinction in Limelight Magazine! “This latest offering, featuring Bellini’s mellifluous swansong I Puritani, may just be their finest to date, conducted as usual by Constantine Orbelian, with Brownlee joined by the excellent American coloratura…
A second Fanfare critic has added our new recording of Bellini’s I Puritani to their “Not to be missed” list: “From Delos comes an impressive new studio release of Bellini’s final opera, I puritani, recorded at the Kaunas Philharmonic. …Lawrence Brownlee is one of the finest bel canto tenors of his generation. And, among tenors who have participated…
AllMusic reviews Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, and Constantine Orbelian‘s recording of Bellini’s I Puritani: “it’s a fine reading of the opera with many attractions bel canto buffs should check out. One for American listeners is that it offers a preview of conductor Constantine Orbelian, who, despite his U.S. birth, has worked mostly in the former Soviet…
Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, and Constantine Orbelian’s Bellini: I Puritani recording gets a 4 and 5 star review in the new issue of BBC Music Magazine! “The young American tenor Lawrence Brownlee is an impressive Arturo, light of tone and with an easy ascent into the upper register. The pace of his ‘A te o…
Fanfare Magazine critic Henry Fogel offers an absolute RAVE review for Sarah Coburn, Lawrence Brownlee, and Constantine Orbelian’s new recording of Bellini’s I Puritani: “This release is something we don’t see too often any more: a studio recording of a complete opera… This set takes its place comfortably alongside the finest available recordings of Bellini’s…
Göran Forsling offers a fourth MusicWeb International review of Oksana Volkova’s Poison d’Amour release with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony: “It was also as Maddalena I first met her in the Delos recording of Rigoletto with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the title role… Maddalena is hardly a role that catapults a singer to stardom, but even…
Oksana Volkova, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s Poison d’Amour album is named an Opera News Critic’s Choice! “an audacious compilation of mezzo-soprano (and soprano-adjacent) arias… Poison d’Amour announces Volkova as the real deal: a full-bodied, lyric mezzo-soprano with intelligence, passion, nuance and a healthy dose of chutzpah… And Constantine Orbelian’s decadent and limpid conducting…
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