“On his first CD for Delos, [composer Robert] Nelson teams up with mezzo-soprano Sonja Bruzauskas…and a raft of talented Houston musicians in a programme that demonstrates his range of styles and interests, from cabaret songs to a full-length children’s entertainment. The most eagerly anticipated will be the 25-minute Zoo Stories…each with a surprisingly serious moral…
Jacqueline Kharouf has a new interview for composer Robert Nelson about his latest Delos recording, Watercolors. Read her introduction below and see the full interview on FanfareArchive.com! Robert Nelson has written music for opera, theater and film, wind and jazz ensemble, chamber music, chorus, and orchestra. He is currently professor emeritus of music theory and…
Buy from Delos “Two strong threads run through this album of songs by Houston-based composer Robert Nelson: ingenuity and community. The ingenuity is focused, as you’d expect, on the composer himself, whose imagination has led him to devise unusual ensembles to accompany his songs, such as a piano quintet with an oboe replacing the first…
Buy from Delos Fanfare Magazine critic Colin Clarke gives Watercolors a Five Star Review! “In an interview with Merlin Patterson in Fanfare 39:3, conductor Franz Anton Krager referred to composer Robert Nelson in the following terms: ‘Bob Nelson and his expeditious creative powers are as close to a modern-day Mozart as one can be. His…
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