Mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich and pianist Jeffrey LaDeur perform excerpts from Mark Abel’s song cycle “1966,” a composition on Abel’s Delos album Spectrum: 1966 1966 was written for Kindra Scharich and her close colleague Jeffrey LaDeur. The cycle evokes the long-ago year when I turned 18 – a magic and unsettling time filled with life-altering events.…
Provintia, “Sunset of Chihkan Tower” (赤崁夕照) by Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (b. 1970) Taiwanese-American composer Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, winner of the first Biennial Brandenburg Symphony International Composition Competition and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, was educated in Taiwan and the United States. She received a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) composed his Sérénade mélancolique for violin and orchestra (or piano) in 1875, shortly after completing his First Piano Concerto. It was first heard a year later, performed by Adolph Brodsky, who stepped in to replace the work’s dedicatee, Leopold Auer, when he backed out of the first performance. Several years later…
The sirens, those mythical beings of the island of Circe, occupy a unique place in literature. Unlike other temptresses, their lure is art: a song of such overpowering beauty that it draws sailors to a rocky death. Perhaps one thinks of lyrical, melodic music coming from sirens, but this cycle casts a wide net in…
Commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony for their 2012 Mavericks Festival, Mass Transmission brings to life the true story of a distantly separated mother and daughter speaking over the first long-distance radio transmissions between Holland and Java. Ethereal choral sonorities processed through a haze of radio static unfold into virtuosic organ toccatas. The texts for…
Enjoy a new video-overview of Continent’s End from the composer, Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli: Continent’s End Song Cycle by Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli Based On Nine Poems of Robinson Jeffers While Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is one of America’s most important 20th-century poets, relatively few composers have set his lean, emotive and enigmatic verses. Composer Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli, like Jeffers a…
Our new release, Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem – In Memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky is now available for HD Streaming as a new Apple Music Visual Album! Now in Apple Music! Originally released in October 2018 on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital Download, and also now available on CD! In the wake of the beloved Russian…
Mezzo-soprano Janelle DeStefano and pianist Tali Tadmor perform three of the five songs comprising Mark Abel’s cycle “The Ocean of Forgiveness,” a setting of poems by Joanne Regenhardt. The complete cycle appears on Abel’s Time and Distance recording. Time and Distance In this spellbinding new album, Abel gives sensitive listeners food for thought, stimulates the ear with…
Fair world, where are you? Alas, only in the magic land of song Does your fabled memory live on. Friedrich von Schiller, The Gods of Greece Schiller’s poignant verses express the longing of the German Romantics to connect with the power and pathos of the classical world. Several years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art…
Watch Ryu Goto performing composer Sayo Kosugi‘s “Lilac Nova” at the Kyoto National Museum with AANMI musicians and conductor Yuga Cohler: Sayo Kosugi: Lilac Nova I find it difficult to describe in words what I felt when writing Lilac Nova for violin and chamber orchestra. It was a feeling of something subtle and mysterious.…
Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60 In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall’s plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with its inevitable physical…
The Heyman Center for the Humanities presents the full, live video presentation of the world premiere performance of Mortality Mansions, a collaboration of U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein: Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60 In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer…
Time and Distance In this spellbinding new album, Abel gives sensitive listeners food for thought, stimulates the ear with his signature fusion of classical, rock and jazz, and makes you feel, with his gut-grabbing expressions of potent emotion. GRAMMY®-winning soprano Hila Plitmann brings her full emotional range to three Abel works, including “Those Who Loved…
Called “alluring” and “wildly inventive” by The New York Times, Viet Cuong’s music seeks to “leave you breathless” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) by finding ways to introduce new life into time-honored musical ideas. He is a winner of the ASCAP Morton Gould Composers Award, Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composers Award, and Theodore Presser Foundation Music Award,…
Classical Music Stars in Malta features several pieces by Maltese composer Alexey Shor, composer in residence at the Malta International Music Festival. His works have been performed around the world. While his Farewell Nocturne and Addio may be wistful and reflective, King Matt the First combines these feelings with lighthearted sections. About this piece the composer…
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