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…
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-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…
Terrain of the Heart Composer Mark Abel Jamie Chamberlin, Soprano; Ariel Pisturino, soprano; Victoria Kirsch, piano; Song Cycles of Mark Abel “Abel is as good a poet as he is a musician. … I think that anyone who is interested in modern vocal music will want to own this disc.” — Maria Nockin, Fanfare, on…
Now Available for digital download and streaming — Terrain of the Heart Terrain of the Heart: Art Songs by Mark Abel Composer Mark Abel Jamie Chamberlin, Soprano; Ariel Pisturino, soprano; Victoria Kirsch, piano; “Abel is as good a poet as he is a musician. … I think that anyone who is interested in modern vocal…
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