Houston Public Media’s Classical Classroom features Delos composer Mark Abel for a fantastic discussion on Art Song! Have a listen: Speaking of Art Songs by Mark Abel… Hila Plitmann Premieres The Palm Trees Are Restless October 01, 2016 – 8:00pm Boston Court Performing Arts Center 70 N. Mentor Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106 Tickets Apple Music…
Jamie Chamberlin, featured soprano on Delos release Terrain of the Heart, has the plum role of legendary Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe in Long Beach Opera’s upcoming production of Gavin Bryars’ Marilyn Forever. LBO describes Marilyn Forever as an examination of “Monroe’s intellectual and emotional relationship to death and love. As the work progresses, the performance…
As we get close to 2015, we’re taking some time to look back on an exciting 2014 filled with fantastic releases! Below are our January and February releases. Make sure to check back here for the rest of the recaps! Vadym Kholodenko Plays Rachmnaninoff; Medtner MusicWeb International Review ICMA Nomination: Best Solo Instrumentalist Buy It…
Soprano Jamie Chamberlin and pianist Victoria Kirsch perform “It Was an Evening” and “The Guest” from composer Mark Abel’s cycle “Rainbow Songs” at the Songs Uncommon and New (unSUNg) concert, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Glendale, Ca., August 17, 2014. The entire Rainbow Songs cycle appears on Abel’s Delos CD Terrain of the Heart. It Was…
Critic Don Clark has a fantastic and thorough new review for Mark Abel’s Terrain of the Heart recording: “Abel melds his experience in classical, rock and song writing music into songs that are sophisticated, accessible, original and tuneful…well crafted, emotionally complex and engaging lyric songs in the truest sense of the form. “Very theatrical in…
Soprano Ariel Pisturino and pianist Victoria Kirsch perform “I Live My Life in Growing Orbits” and “My Life is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour” from composer Mark Abel’s cycle “Five Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke” at Alvas Showroom, San Pedro, Ca., September 23, 2014. The entire Rilke cycle appears on Abel’s Delos CD Terrain of…
A fantastic new feature from KCET.org’s “ArtBound” contributor Sarah Linn on Mark Abel and his new Terrain of the Heart recording: “‘You can never tell what you’re going to see out here,’ explained Abel, who moved to the Central Coast from Carlsbad in January 2013. It’s here, surrounded by the bucolic beauty of northern San…
Soprano Jamie Chamberlin and pianist Victoria Kirsch perform “La Sonnambula” from composer Mark Abel’s cycle “Rainbow Songs” at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, Ca., July 15, 2014: Buy from Delos Today! Download the Digital Booklet!
Opera News has a new review of Terrain of the Heart: Song Cycles of Mark Abel in their online edition: “Composer Mark Abel draws on both his career as a rock musician and his classical roots by marrying the parameters of art song with the harmonies and figurations found more commonly in rock, pop and…
Classical Candor has a new review of Mark Abel’s Terrain of the Heart recording: “… As with The Dream Gallery, I enjoyed his new album, which draws in part upon the composer’s roots in pop, rock, and jazz as well as classical music. … We get a good deal of tortured introspection in “The Dark-Eyed…
Make sure to tune into the Stanford’s “Zookeeper” Radio Station to hear tracks from Mark Abel’s Terrain of the Heart recording! “Mark Abel has forged an original style that blends elements of classical, rock and jazz. This disc’s art songs feature the gorgeous voices of sopranos Jamie Chamberlin and Ariel Pisturino, accompanied by pianist Victoria…
Delos artist Mark Abel has been named one of the winners of the 2014 Composition Competition held by the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles (ACF-LA). This year’s contest was devoted to works for voice and piano, and Mark was honored for “La Sonnambula,” part of the “Rainbow Songs” cycle recorded on his recent Delos…
Classical-Modern Music Review‘s Grego Applegate Edwards is “captivated” by the art songs by Mark Abel in his latest Delos release, Terrain of the Heart: “The art song cycle today? I don’t hear all that much of it as composed in the present… West Coast American composer Mark Abel is an exponent who excels in the…
A composite version of newly published Terrain of the Heart reviews written by Colin Clarke and Maria Nockin in the July/August edition of Fanfare Magazine: The five-song, half-hour cycle The Dark-Eyed Chameleon (words by the composer) is poignant, certainly, while also revealing Abel’s natural setting of the English language. It all flows beautifully. Like Janáček’s,…
James Manheim has a new review for Mark Abel’s Terrain of the Heart CD and compares the three song cycles to the music of William Bolcolm and Leonard Bernstein: “California-based composer Mark Abel has developed a unique musical language that incorporates strong influences from rock music without losing the basic shape of classical song. He…
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