Fanfare Magazine has added Mark Abel’s The Cave of Wondrous Voice recording to their “Not To Be Missed” Section! See Colin Clarke’s review and interview with Mark Abel on the Fanfare Archive: “Having previously enjoyed the music of Mark Abel, I had high hopes for the present release, The Cave of Wondrous Voice. I certainly was…
Henry Schlinger of Culture Spot LA reviews Mark Abel’s new release, The Cave of Wondrous Voice: “The Cave of Wondrous Voice, the latest recording featuring new works by composer Mark Abel, is itself a wondrous creation. It features a variety of chamber music pieces in a traditional style but with a contemporary sound. … The two…
Bowdoin College’s News Department has just published a piece about Mark Abel’s collaboration with Alyssa Gillespie, chair of the school’s Russian department, which resulted in the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva.” (The piece provides) a good introduction to a poet who still has a “semi-obscure status in America’s world of letters,” said Abel.…
Pizzicato Magazine gives a Four-Star rating to The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel in a review by Uwe Krusch: “truly outstanding artists… bring [Mark Abel’s] creations to vibrant musical life. Their devotion to the music at hand is heard in their collective ability to shape and sustain their interpretations. … [Clarinetist…
Now Available Worldwide! The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel The music in this album sings and dances, in Abel’s “colorful blend of styles that serve the emotional nature of each work to bracing and poignant effect” (Gramophone). It further clarifies why Abel is “one of the most interesting figures in American contemporary…
With Mark Abel’s new album “The Cave of Wondrous Voice” dropping on May 1, this seems like the right moment for these shots of legendary chamber players David Shifrin, Fred Sherry and Carol Rosenberger rehearsing Mark’s “Clarinet Trio” prior to its recording at Oktaven Audio in Mount Vernon, NY. The images were taken by Leland…
Candid shots from a pre-recording rehearsal in Santa Monica for the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva,” a collaboration between composer Mark Abel and translator Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, chair of the Russian Department at Bowdoin College. The musicians are the renowned soprano Hila Plitmann, pianist and Delos label director Carol Rosenberger, and Sarah Beck,…
Please enjoy these shots of violinist Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and pianist Dominic Cheli rehearsing Mark Abel’s “The Elastic Hours” in Los Angeles. Later on we moved to famed Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood to lay down this piece for Mark’s next album, “The Cave of Wondrous Voice.” Photos by the fabulous Jeanine Hill (with contributions from Sabrina and…
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…
Mark Abel joined KING FM’s Dacia Clay on the Second Inversion program to talk about his new Time and Distance recording and more. Listen below and see the post on SecondInversion.org! Time and Distance In this spellbinding new album, Abel gives sensitive listeners food for thought, stimulates the ear with his signature fusion of classical,…
Carol Rosenberger, General Director of Delos, announced today that composer Mark Abel will become Delos Co-Director as of October 1, 2018. Abel, whose work has been featured on four Delos recordings, has also been a journalist and editor in his varied career. For over ten years he was Foreign Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle,…
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…
The National Association of Teachers of Singing‘s September/October issue of The Journal of Singing features a rave new review for Mark Abel‘s Time and Distance recording: Mark Abel is one of our most accomplished art song composers, with an impressive body of work that grows by the day. One hallmark of his legacy is his…
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