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…
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…
Friday, July 6, longtime Delos artist David Shifrin, will join cellist Fred Sherry and pianist J.P. Redmond in a world premiere performance of Delos composer Mark Abel‘s Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2017) presented by Chamber Music Northwest! Mark Abel on his Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano My Trio for Clarinet, Cello and…
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…
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