The Arts Fuse has a new review for Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia recording: “A delightful recording — and the first ever! — of arias from Hasse’s and Gluck’s operas about Tigranes and Cleopatra of Pontus. Plus four arias by Vivaldi for that same Cleopatra.…
American Record Guide‘s November/December 2018 issue has a detailed new review for the Asia / America New Music Institute‘s new Transcendent recording: “Matthew Aucoin’s Two Whitman Songs (‘The Sleepers’ and ‘A Clear Midnight’) capture the magnificent and removed nature of Whitman’s poetry. There are so many shades of silver in this music; its gleaming darkness…
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…
TheaterJones.com‘s Auxiliary Input critic reviews David Shifrin‘s new recording of music by Carl Nielsen and finds more than expected: “This recording is … perfect in every respect. It’s mostly, if not completely, a live recording (and I’m learning to love these). You hear performers breathing, you hear key clicks and valve action—in short, you get…
“In 2016 the Delos label has done sterling service to opera and song releasing individual recital albums from Jamie Barton, Lawrence Brownlee and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, three of the finest singers on the international stage today.” —Michael Cookson, MusicWeb International Order Now Jamie Barton: All Who Wander A rising star Barton seems as comfortable on the…
Last week, Isabel Leonard performed arrangements from her Preludios recording with Sharon Isbin at Carnegie Hall, and the raves are coming in: The New York times “Most of the opera singers who appear at Carnegie Hall follow the traditional route of singing alongside a pianist. The mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard chose a more unusual partner for…
This past weekend was a big one for Delos artists in NYC! Here’s a look back at some highlights: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Returns! A look at the curtain call: New York Times reviews: Sondra Radvanovsky “Ms. Radvanovsky’s technical command in this daunting Donizetti role was flawless. She is a true inheritor to the Callas approach to…
Opera blog Mandolin Vision calls Lawrence Brownlee’s Virtuoso Rossini Arias recording “A CD of Happiness” in a new review: “Even though we are ardent opera fans, when it comes to traveling, we are an anything-goes gang, happy to listen to it all – from the classics to reggae to rock. As long as our music-on-the-go…
Five Star Reviews are coming in for Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s new Simon Boccanegra recording on Amazon.com: “This recording is the BEST Boccanegra of them all. I have been following Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s career for many years now and have heard him sing this role in San Francisco, New York, Vienna and Paris. The cast chosen for this…
InfoDad sees Isabel Leonard’s Preludios as a “prelude to…increasing listener interest not only in these songs but also in Leonard…” “Two folk-based and dark-hued songs by Lorca come across particularly well here, as do Montsalvatge’s Cinco canciónes negras, whose varied moods both Leonard and pianist Brian Zeger seem to understand intuitively and thus handle with…
A double-review for Dinara Alieva in MusicWeb International this month from critic Michael Cookson (previous MusicWeb review): “Her debut CD on American Delos samples Verdi, Puccini, Catalani, Cilea and Leoncavallo; a valuable collection of thirteen, mainly familiar, Romantic arias. This Italian repertoire especially suits Alieva who displays her creamy, dusky-hued, fluid, lyric tones to best…
Amazon Reviewers are raving about the GRAMMY nominated Lawrence Brownlee release, Virtuosos Rossini Arias! Here’s a taste of what people are saying: “These are absolutely thrilling renditions of this impossibly difficult repertoire by the finest exponent of it singing today.” “We are in a golden age of tenors and Mr. Brownlee heads the list. ……
Audiophile Audition gives a four-star rating to the Brazilian Guitar Quartet’s new Spanish Dances recording: “The quartet has selected six of the best-known Spanish composers of piano music in the 20th century. With their brilliant flair for the sound and spirit of Spanish music, the quartet cannot help but shine in this repertory. … The…
WQXR New York’s “Q2 Music” names Tara Kamangar’s East of Melancholy their “Album of the Week”! “Pianist Tara Kamangar has done her homework. Not only has she put together, with her new album “East of Melancholy,” a luxuriously lovely recital of virtuoso piano music—and executed it with spectacular aplomb—she has curated it with a acute…
Planet Hugill says of Lawrence Brownlee’s Virtuoso Rossini Arias, “Listen and be dazzled.” “The arias are all, needless to say virtuoso. After all Rossini was writing for some of the greatest singers of the day. Rossini was in fact quite sparing in his use of arias, generally duos, trios and ensembles dominate his operas. ……
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