The 60th GRAMMY Awards were announced this morning, and we are excited to share that TWO Delos albums have received nominations! Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift featuring Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Constantine Orbelian has been nominated for the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album and Mademoiselle: Première Audience – Unknown Music Of Nadia Boulanger has been nominated for…
The nominations for the 2018 International Classical Music Awards have been announced, and THREE Delos releases have been nominated! All Who Wander Category: Vocal Recital Russia Cast Adrift Category: Vocal Recital Mademoiselle Category: Assorted Programs Order Now Order Now Order Now
Order Now “The great Nadia Boulanger was a pianist, organist, conductor, composer and a legendary pedagogue and composition teacher. … Out of the 37 works offered here, 13 are world premiere recordings, including 11 unpublished works (eight art songs and 3 piano pieces) that were transcribed From Boulanger’s manuscripts. Altogether, we’re speaking of performances of…
Order Now “This disc was a revelation for me.…it has great beauty and stays in the mind after one hears it. Songs comprise 26 of the 37-individual works on this two-disc set, and they are lovely. Boulanger’s style is similar in some ways to Debussy’s and Fauré’s. The earlier works show a greater influence from…
Order Now “…I have found much of this music very beautiful and moving, and the performances have enhanced my enjoyment. Both singers seem ideal especially the warm toned Alek Shrader and the Cavaillé Coll organ at the Madeleine Church in Paris (illustrated on the back of the booklet) which Mademoiselle knew well is a typical…
Order Now “It could be said that the young Nadia Boulanger lies in the direct line of succession from Fauré in the solemnity of her composition, the quality of her writing and her harmonic refinement – though generally tauter than with her older master. This is particularly true for the melodies for which she chose…
Order Now “A teacher of teachers, with a long life and a great breadth of mind, Boulanger had among her pupils Virgil Thompson, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Daniel Barenboim, Phillip Glass, Ravi Shankar, Astor Piazzolla and – among the Mexicans – José Rolón and Julio Estrada. They all remember not only her lessons, but also…
Of all the countless artists who revere the memory of Nadia Boulanger and have sought to pay homage to her singular musical influence and to preserve her legacy, few (if any) have done so in such a unique manner as Bruno Monsaingeon. Known primarily for his candid and revealing film documentaries about many of the…
Order Now New review in the June 2017 issue of BBC Music Magazine for Mademoiselle: Première Audience – Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger: “Lili was the talented composer out of the two Boulanger sisters. At least, that was the conviction of Nadia Boulanger, who stopped writing music a few years after the death of her…
Order Now “…pianist Lucy Mauro unveils eleven unpublished (eight songs and three pieces for piano) found in the papers of the pedagogue. … The whole is bathed in a climate willingly dark, even funereal – this even before the disappearance of Lili. It is to rock “the soul that suffers without anger” in Ecoutez la…
Tenor Alek Shrader discusses rediscovering Nadia Boulanger as a creator of music: Order Now Mademoiselle — Première Audience Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger Delos has the tremendous honor of issuing the first-ever album devoted to the wonderful compositions of Nadia Boulanger: truly a release of great historical importance. None dispute that Boulanger was by far…
“I really encourage you to discover this recording and add this interesting, beautiful music to your library.” —Nicole Cabell, Soprano Order Now Mademoiselle — Première Audience Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger Delos has the tremendous honor of issuing the first-ever album devoted to the wonderful compositions of Nadia Boulanger: truly a release of great historical…
Order Now “…what you’ve got here is historic and very great indeed: the first recording of music by one of the most important figures in all of 20th century music but one whose own music has been kept under virtual lock and key since her death in 1979 at the age of 92.… Listen to…
South Carolina’s Free Times has a wonderful profile of Mademoiselle artist Amit Peled and his very famous instrument: When Amit Peled was 10, he would fall asleep every night listening to Pablo Casals on his boombox.…[At 28] the the director of the Washington Performing Arts Society… introduced him to Casals’ widow, Marta Casals Istomin. She…
Order Now Noted critic Norman Lebrecht has named our new Mademoiselle – Première Audience: Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger an “Album of the Week” in his syndicated column! “In half a century of listening to records, I cannot recall ever hearing music by the noted French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Revered by a stream of American…
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