Grego Applegate Edwards’ Classical-Modern Music Review has a great recommendation for Mark Abel: Spectrum recording: “Listening to this set numerous times reveals a composer of lyrical gifts, a crafter of vibrant melodic-harmonic landscapes of a ravishing sort, perhaps in the footsteps but not the actual shoes of a Samuel Barber (the Knoxville and such). There…
Grego Applegate Edwards reviews Mark Abel’s new recording, The Cave of Wondrous Voice for Classical-Modern Music Review: “(This) is inspired and very well put-together music that would not be mistaken for the music of the past … . It is straightforwardly intricate, expressive and inventive in good ways, in the best ways. … What impresses…
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 has a RAVE review for recent release, Nadav Lev: New Strings Attached! “Nadav Lev is a guitarist of both traditional and unconventional virtuosity. The works, six by six composers, cover a wide range of new music attitudes and chamber styles. Nadav himself plus Gilad Cohen, Yair Klartag, Jonathan Keren, Guy Barash…
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…
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…
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