Gramophone Magazine critic Donald Rosenberg reviews The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel in the August issue: “As he has demonstrated on previous recordings of songs and operas, [Mark Abel] treats words with shapely care, establishing vibrant and urgent contexts for the interaction of voice and instruments. Tsvetaeva’s verses make…
The ArtsFuse’s Jonathan Blumhofer reviews The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music of Mark Abel: “One would find it hard to beat the all-star lineup featured in The Cave of Wondrous Voice, a new… survey of vocal and chamber music by the California-based composer Mark Abel. David Shifrin, Carol Rosenberger, Hila Plitmann, and Fred Sherry headline…
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…
The March 2019 issue of Gramophone Magazine features a review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini‘s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording in their “Sounds of America” section: “[a] monumental approach to Joachim’s effective arrangements for violin and piano. … Höpcker’s grand rhetorical gestures work to the music’s advantage, notably in her convincingly massive and orchestrally…
The February 2019 issue of The Whole Note features a great new review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini‘s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording in their “Strings Attached” section: “The German violinist Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker is the brilliant soloist in Brahms Hungarian Dances, a recital of all 21 pieces originally written for piano four hands and…
Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording is KUSC’s Album of the week! “Our Album of the Week is filled with the high-spirited melodies and emotional depth Brahms wrote into his own Hungarian Dances. This version for violin and piano was arranged by Brahms’ friend Joseph Joachim and played brilliantly by violinist Sabrina-Vivian…
The Infodad Team has a new review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording: “Listening to Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker’s performance on a new Delos CD is a tremendously involving and exhilarating experience, likely to make anyone familiar with this music wonder why Joachim’s transcription is not heard more often. … It may be that this version…
Fanfare Magazine has added Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording to their “Not To Be Missed” section with a new interview and review from Jerry Dubins: “There is no way that Brahms’s original piano four-hands version or his arrangements for piano two hands of these dances could ever achieve the tonal…
MusicWeb International critic Ralph Moore reviews Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s recording of Brahms Hungarian Dances: “Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker certainly plays with great feeling and freedom here, unashamedly milking the opportunities for soulful rubato and rallentando just as the music demands; her accompanist is scrupulous in following her lead, so ensemble is tight. Like Joachim, she…
Hamburg-born Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker is one of today’s most renowned German violinists. Joachim Kaiser, the legendary music critic, described her playing as “beguiling” in its powerful blend of reserve and bravura, of tender restraint and intoxicating spirit and esteemed it as “luck” that coincidence had allowed him to become acquainted with Sabrina-Vivian, whose three CDs in…
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