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…
Master clarinetist David Shifrin partners with the Dover and Harlem String Quartets in an album that blazes with excitement. The three new quintets showcase the clarinet’s many moods and tones and explore the expressive capabilities of the string quartet as well. First on the album is Ducal Suite, featuring arrangements of compositions by Duke Ellington, followed by Chris Rogerson’s Thirty Thousand Days,…
InfoDad reviews the new David Shifrin recording Spring Forward featuring works by Peter Schickele, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Richard Danielpour performed by the Miró Quartet, Jasper String Quartet, and Dover Quartet: “David Shifrin’s deeply felt and strong commitment to the new clarinet literature as well as more-classical clarinet works leads him again and again to…
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…
TheaterJones.com‘s Auxiliary Input critic reviews David Shifrin‘s new recording of music by Carl Nielsen and finds more than expected: “This recording is … perfect in every respect. It’s mostly, if not completely, a live recording (and I’m learning to love these). You hear performers breathing, you hear key clicks and valve action—in short, you get…
Gramophone Magazine has a new interview and review with David Shifrin about his new Delos recording of the music of Carl Nielsen in their August 2018 issue’s “Sounds of America” section: Gramophone Interview What first drew you to the music of Nielsen? I was 13 years old when I first heard Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto. I…
Friday, July 6, longtime Delos artist David Shifrin, will join cellist Fred Sherry and pianist J.P. Redmond in a world premiere performance of Delos composer Mark Abel‘s Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2017) presented by Chamber Music Northwest! Mark Abel on his Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano My Trio for Clarinet, Cello and…
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Shifrin’s “… musicianship and leadership are always on display, and his rendition of the Zwilich should ensure its place in every clarinetist’s library.”
“As good as the musicianship is in this CD, the real pleasure…may be the music, itself…This is really one of the better clarinet discs I have encountered all year…I recommend this recording strongly…”
“I have no hesitation in recommending this disc.” – Lynn René Bayley, Fanfare Magazine …read the review…
Chamber Music Northwest: David Shifrin & Friends features music from four leading American composers — beloved icon Aaron Copland and three contemporary masters: Stephen Harke, Aaaron Jay Kernis, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Here, on the Delos Insider, we want to introduce you to these composers and their works, via Delos’ own liner notes. Ellen Taaffe…
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