Delos is thrilled to share the Recording Academy’s announcement that Conspirare’s The Singing Guitar has been nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance! Best Choral Performance The Singing Guitar Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Estelí Gomez; Austin Guitar Quartet, Douglas Harvey, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet & Texas Guitar Quartet; Conspirare) The wonderful Conspirare chamber choir,…
Gramophone Magazine’s January 2021 issue features a wonderful review for the Los Angeles, Texas, and Austin Guitar Quartets, and Conspirare’s recording, The Singing Guitar: “Conspirare’s new recording featuring the Austin-based choral group and three guitar quartets bookends impressive large-scale works by Nico Muhly and Kile Smith with small jewels by Reena Esmail and founding conductor…
The Chicago Tribune has published their 10 best classical recordings of 2020 and Conspirare’s “The Singing Guitar” has made the list! “[Craig Hella] Johnson and Conspirare continue to create indelible work, as in “The Singing Guitar,” which pairs Conspirare’s sublime voices with guitar accompaniment. The melismatic chant of Reena Esmail’s “When the Guitar,” the poignant…
Here’s more of a mixed holiday gift bag, containing two prime releases of very different sorts: one instrumental, one choral … but both with a Russian twist. While it’s definitely not a Christmas theme album, the fabulous Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s Dances from Renaissance to Nutcracker (DE 3132) definitely contains a beloved seasonal classic: a…
“Good spirits and great music-making abound on this CD of Baroque music from the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.” — WWNO – New Orleans An all-baroque program, arranged and performed by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Highlights include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, music from Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell, and a very unusual version of Pachelbel’s Canon…
We might be three weeks away from Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking about Christmas! And this week Delos is giving YOU the present! From now until Monday, November 7th, Delos has FOUR Christmas albums for a special price of $5.99 on iTunes! Then, from November 1st through the new…
The blog Film Music: The Neglected Art has published another grand review of a “Delos Recording of the Month.” This month’s album is one of our compilations — “Western Classics,” featuring Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet performing the music of Copland, Grofé, Hanson, and Hovhaness. From Film Music: The Neglected…
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