Voix des Arts critic, Joseph Newsome, reviews Mark Abel’s Time And Distance recording featuring Hila Plitmann, Janelle DeStefano, Carol Rosenberger, Tali Tadmor, and Burce Carver: “Too plentiful to enumerate are the passages in this music that are so wrenchingly private that they may compel the listener to ask, ‘How can this man whom I have…
Mezzo-soprano Janelle DeStefano and pianist Tali Tadmor perform three of the five songs comprising Mark Abel’s cycle “The Ocean of Forgiveness,” a setting of poems by Joanne Regenhardt. The complete cycle appears on Abel’s Time and Distance recording. Time and Distance In this spellbinding new album, Abel gives sensitive listeners food for thought, stimulates the ear with…
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…
Culture Spot LA‘s Theodore Bell offers an in-depth review of Delos’ latest recording of music by composer Mark Abel – Time and Distance – featuring Hila Plitmann, Janelle DeStefano, Carol Rosenberger, Tali Tadmor, and Bruce Carver: “Plitmann brings her exceptional talent to three works, the first of which, “Those Who Loved Medusa,” links the modern…
Fanfare Magazine‘s Huntley Dent has a new review of Mark Abel’s latest Delos recording, Time and Distance: “…Few current songwriters rival Abel’s intriguing texts and their reach into so many psychological and cultural issues. Meaning and melody go hand in hand in a very contemporary way, which I truly admire.” “Abel, being just as serious…
Opera Lively‘s chief editor, Luiz Gazzola, has a new review of Mark Abel‘s Time and Distance world premiere recordings: “The two singers on Time and Distance do very well, with the Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann once again displaying her agility, range, and purity of sound (I particularly loved her in The Benediction), while mezzo Janelle…
San Francisco Classical Voice‘s Lou Fancher spoke with Mark Abel about his latest Delos recording, Time and Distance: “During a phone conversation with composer Mark Abel, geometry explains the variegated art songs on his new CD, Time and Distance. Oscillating within a triangle whose end points are classical, rock, and jazz music, the San Simeon-based…
“Abel combines tuneful original passages with rock and jazz elements to form unique tonal structures … a colorful blend of styles … a powerful emotional punch.” “(In the Rear View Mirror, Now) shows his mastery of tragedy as composer, musician and poet.” Composer Mark Abel’s new disc, Time and Distance, contains the world premieres of…
“The musical vocabulary … is approachable, mostly easy on the ear and … somewhat timeless.” “Myths have fierce contemporary relevance, and nowhere more so than (in the song Those Who Loved Medusa), where the rape … plugs directly into the ‘Me Too’ movement.” Composer Mark Abel is clearly at home writing for the human voice.…
Pizzicato Magazine reviews the new Mark Abel release, Time and Distance: “The American composer Mark Abel—who has in the past devoted himself to rock music, then journalism—has since become one of the most interesting figures in American contemporary music. This album presents him as a composer of art songs. The songs grew either out of…
The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) announced the winners of their 2018 Art Song Composition Award, and Mark Abel’s The Ocean of Forgiveness received Honorable Mention! The Ocean of Forgiveness can be heard on Mark Abel’s 2018 Delos recording, Time and Distance. More information on the award can be found at NATS.org. The…
Time and Distance In this spellbinding new album, Abel gives sensitive listeners food for thought, stimulates the ear with his signature fusion of classical, rock and jazz, and makes you feel, with his gut-grabbing expressions of potent emotion. GRAMMY®-winning soprano Hila Plitmann brings her full emotional range to three Abel works, including “Those Who Loved…
Get a look behind the scenes of Mark Abel‘s “Time and Distance” recording sessions with Hila Plitmann at The Bridge, Glendale, CA, and Delos’ own Carol Rosenberger and Janelle DeStefano at Chapman University, Orange, CA. “Time and Distance” will be out on Delos in Spring 2018! (All photos by Jeanine Hill)
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