Gramophone Magazine’s 2020 Awards Issue reviews the Latvian Radio Choir’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “The importance in Armenian culture of Komitas, priest-monk, composer, arranger, transcriber, conductor, can hardly be overestimated. … his transcriptions of western Armenian folk music effectively saved the tradition from extinction. … The Divine Liturgy was first published in 1933…
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…
Gramophone‘s December 2019 Sounds of America section featured a new review of Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin’s Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates recording: “Bates’s versatility is further revealed on this disc of superb choral works featuring the inspired Cappella SF. In Sirens, six movements of beguiling and varied settings for a cappella chorus,…
Gramophone reviews Veronika Dzhioeva’s Ritorna Vincitor! recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony in the 2019 Awards Issue: “Though it clocks it at just under an hour, there’s plenty of bang for your buck in this high-voltage recital by a rising soprano … Veronika Dzhioeva has the impressive breath control and cutting edge…
The March 2019 issue of Gramophone Magazine features a review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini‘s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording in their “Sounds of America” section: “[a] monumental approach to Joachim’s effective arrangements for violin and piano. … Höpcker’s grand rhetorical gestures work to the music’s advantage, notably in her convincingly massive and orchestrally…
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…
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…
“You can hardly blame musicians for being eager to play Schumann chamber pieces not written for their instruments. Who wouldn’t want to visit, however briefly, the world of ‘Fantasy & Romance’ that cellist Emanuel Gruber and pianist Keiko Sekino inhabit on their new disc? … In Gruber’s mellow hands, everything else on the disc emerges…
Portara Ensemble and ALIAS Chamber Ensemble’s new release, Amorisms: Music of Paul Moravec, gets a rave review in the May issue of Gramophone Magazine in their Sounds of America section: Buy from Delos “Paul Moravec won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Tempest Fantasy, which takes up the middle portion of this new…
Buy From Delos Gramophone Magazine features The French Influence: Music for Trumpet and Piano in the April “Sounds of America” section! “Devotees of orchestral music may know Gerard Schwarz from his activities as a conductor, especially his years as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony, Mostly Mozart Festival and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. But before he…
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