“Looking over the cast bios (for “Home Is a Harbor”), one is struck by the fact that nearly all the participants in this project are California-based, making the point very clearly that (the state) has become an important cultural hub in the country, and Mr. Abel is at the forefront of its musical life. The…
Available TODAY! Home Is A Harbor: An Opera in Three Acts The Palm Trees Are Restless: Five Poems of Kate Gale World Premiere Recordings “a compelling musical theater piece which combines classical and modern musical elements with contemporary dramatic situations…. These two new works… come highly recommended for all enthusiasts of contemporary music…” — Carla…
Opera Lively critic Luiz Gazzola reviews Mark Abel’s Home is a Harbor opera and The Palm Trees are Restless song cycle before its release on Friday: On Home is a Harbor: “Mark Abel has a number of interesting pieces to his name. He has released previous CDs: “The Dream Gallery,” and “Terrain of the Heart.”…
Jamie Chamberlin, featured soprano on Delos release Terrain of the Heart, has the plum role of legendary Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe in Long Beach Opera’s upcoming production of Gavin Bryars’ Marilyn Forever. LBO describes Marilyn Forever as an examination of “Monroe’s intellectual and emotional relationship to death and love. As the work progresses, the performance…
Soprano Jamie Chamberlin and pianist Victoria Kirsch perform “It Was an Evening” and “The Guest” from composer Mark Abel’s cycle “Rainbow Songs” at the Songs Uncommon and New (unSUNg) concert, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Glendale, Ca., August 17, 2014. The entire Rainbow Songs cycle appears on Abel’s Delos CD Terrain of the Heart. It Was…
Critic Don Clark has a fantastic and thorough new review for Mark Abel’s Terrain of the Heart recording: “Abel melds his experience in classical, rock and song writing music into songs that are sophisticated, accessible, original and tuneful…well crafted, emotionally complex and engaging lyric songs in the truest sense of the form. “Very theatrical in…
Soprano Jamie Chamberlin and pianist Victoria Kirsch perform “La Sonnambula” from composer Mark Abel’s cycle “Rainbow Songs” at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, Ca., July 15, 2014: Buy from Delos Today! Download the Digital Booklet!
Opera News has a new review of Terrain of the Heart: Song Cycles of Mark Abel in their online edition: “Composer Mark Abel draws on both his career as a rock musician and his classical roots by marrying the parameters of art song with the harmonies and figurations found more commonly in rock, pop and…
Classical Candor has a new review of Mark Abel’s Terrain of the Heart recording: “… As with The Dream Gallery, I enjoyed his new album, which draws in part upon the composer’s roots in pop, rock, and jazz as well as classical music. … We get a good deal of tortured introspection in “The Dark-Eyed…
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…
Rainbow Songs We return to Mark Abel’s lyrics in this set. He didn’t originally intend these four songs to stand as a formal cycle – yet, like an actual rainbow, the thematic “colors” both contrast and complement each other. There is a palpable unity in terms of optimistic sentiment, lyrical expression, melodic tone and pianistic…
Terrain of the Heart Composer Mark Abel Jamie Chamberlin, Soprano; Ariel Pisturino, soprano; Victoria Kirsch, piano; Song Cycles of Mark Abel “Abel is as good a poet as he is a musician. … I think that anyone who is interested in modern vocal music will want to own this disc.” — Maria Nockin, Fanfare, on…
Now Available for digital download and streaming — Terrain of the Heart Terrain of the Heart: Art Songs by Mark Abel Composer Mark Abel Jamie Chamberlin, Soprano; Ariel Pisturino, soprano; Victoria Kirsch, piano; “Abel is as good a poet as he is a musician. … I think that anyone who is interested in modern vocal…
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