The Tali Morgulis Archipelago of Light recording has MusicWeb International critic Oleg Ledeniov wanting more; luckily, he can also hear her on our new Watercolors recording! “It is easier to get noticed if you perform beloved, famous works, for their success will rub off on you, and the good feeling that the listener gets from…
“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…
Buy from Delos Two Cabaret Songs Poems by Friedrich Hollaender Early in our collaboration, Sonja brought me a slim volume entitled Lieder und Chansons für Blandine Ebinger. This was a collection of German poems that Friedrich Hollaender wrote in the 1920s for his wife, the noted cabaret singer Blandine Ebinger, at the crest of the…
Buy from Delos Sapphire Poem by Randolph Lacy I had known tenor Randy Lacy through his work at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and the Houston Bach Society. I discovered—quite by chance—that he had written a number of poems, one of which was Sapphire. I was quite attracted to this poem, which…
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Two Exciting New Releases Now Available! Watercolors: Music of Robert Nelson Buy Today! Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano Robert Nelson is a wonderfully inventive and stylistically versatile composer known for his prolific output and his forays into a broad range of musical idioms. Many of his creations feature artful fusions of classical, jazz and even hard rock.…
Composer Robert Nelson Discusses the music of Watercolors In my many years of teaching composition, one of the best bits of advice I ever gave my students was this: Develop and nurture strong associations with talented performers who are capable and open to new music. Such has been my relationship with the multi-talented mezzo-soprano Sonja…
Pre-Order our April releases today on Amazon! Watercolors: Music of Robert Nelson Pre-Order Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano Robert Nelson is a wonderfully inventive and stylistically versatile composer known for his prolific output and his forays into a broad range of musical idioms. Many of his creations feature artful fusions of classical, jazz and even hard rock.…
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