Mass Transmission: Choral Works by Mason Bates Named by Musical America as the 2018 Composer of the Year as well as the most-performed composer of his generation, Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates is widely renowned for his pioneering practice of creating music for conventional performing forces enhanced by electronic sounds. Of the two works presented in this remarkable album, Mass Transmission—in…
Stephen Smoliar reviews Cappella SF’s new Timeless: Ten Centuries of Music recording on his Rehearsal Studio blog: “…the selection on the album is definitely impressive for the scope of its variety… Thus, even the casual listener can come away with a sense of just how significantly things changed as practices of making music progressed from…
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It has just been announced that Delos artist Ragnar Bohlin, GRAMMY-winning choral conductor extraordinaire, has received Chorus America’s 2018 Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art: one of the world’s most prestigious awards for excellence in professional choral singing. Chorus America’s mission statement says it all: Chorus America is the leading…
Order Now “Cappella SF’s disc of music by Conrad Susa and David Conte makes a perfect CD to listen to while lying in bed with the New York Times on a lazy Sunday morning. The music of both men, longtime friends and composing colleagues at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is rich in the…
It was a weekend of coast-to-coast choral launch parties! Check out a couple of photos from the Cappella SF Facing West launch party as well as pic from the Taylor Festival Choir’s Celtic Mass party at a local Irish pub! Order Now Facing West Cappella SF Ragnar Bohlin, conductor Grammy Award-winning choirmaster Ragnar Bohlin leads…
“Susa always kept his eye on the prize of meaning.…and the result is a thoroughly engaging song cycle in the strictest sense of that term. Bohlin’s conducting seemed to recognize this fundamental role of the narrative, making the performance of this cycle an absorbing opening to the evening.… Conte’s first Whitman setting, entitled A Whitman…
Giacomo Puccini: La Rondine Dinara Alieva, Charles Castronovo, Rolando Villazón, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Pre-Order Today! This riveting and beautifully portrayed video account of La Rondine stars the rapidly emerging soprano (and Delos artist) Dinara Alieva and widely acclaimed tenor Charles Castronovo in the lead roles. Filmed live…
Pre-Order The Composer for unaccompanied chorus was commissioned by The Walden School for Young Composers in New Hampshire in celebration of their 30th anniversary, and was premiered by the Walden School Chorus in August of 2002, conducted by Leo Wanenchak. The Composer speaks to the nature of an artist’s inspiration as something that can transcend…
Giacomo Puccini: La Rondine Dinara Alieva, Charles Castronovo, Rolando Villazón, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Pre-Order on ArkivMusic.com: DVD Blu-Ray This riveting and beautifully portrayed video account of La Rondine stars the rapidly emerging soprano (and Delos artist) Dinara Alieva and widely acclaimed tenor Charles Castronovo in the lead…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “The program chosen is, I think, the best kind for a Christmas CD: a mixture of old favourites and unfamiliar pieces or arrangements. As well, there’s a variety of musical textures, a mix of soloists and featured parts, and the important contribution of harp and organ on some of the tracks. Most importantly, the…
Gramophone Magazine’s December 2015 “Christmas Roundup” feature includes Ragnar Bohlin and Cappella SF’s new Light of Gold recording: “Cappella SF’s Light of Gold mixes new and old, with a couple of well-known Willcocks arrangements of traditional carols alongside a Swedish sequence from the likes of Fredrik Sixten, Folke Bohlin and Gustaf Nordqvist. These are well-drilled…
As we celebrate the beginning of December, we’re spotlighting some of the works and composers on Cappella SF’s Light of Gold recording! David Conte — Patapan Denver-born David Conte – who, as a Fulbright Scholar, was one of the legendary Nadia Boulanger’s final students – is now professor and chair of the Composition Department at…
Examiner.com critic Stephen Smoliar reviews the new Cappella SF Light of Gold recording: “I have to say that, while I am no great fan of most of the Christmas repertoire … I feel there is much to be said for listening to it at all in July. That is the time when the music is…
Internationally renowned (and GRAMMY-award winning) conductor Ragnar Bohlin founded Cappella SF, a professional chamber choir, in 2014. Since then, this select Bay Area-based ensemble has presented four concerts to tremendous critical acclaim and recorded music for two CDs – including this, their first commercial release. With Cappella SF, maestro Bohlin strives to showcase the choral…
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