M Abel - The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs | Delos DE3570

M Abel - The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs

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Label: Delos

Cat No: DE3570

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st May 2020

Contents

Artists

David Shifrin (clarinet)
Carol Rosenberger (piano)
Hila Plitmann (soprano)
Fred Sherry (cello)
Sabrina-Vivian Hopcker (violin)
Dominic Cheli (piano)
Sarah Beck (cor anglais)

Works

Abel, Mark

Clarinet Trio
Intuition's Dance
Poems (4) of Marina Tsvetaeva
The Elastic Hours

Artists

David Shifrin (clarinet)
Carol Rosenberger (piano)
Hila Plitmann (soprano)
Fred Sherry (cello)
Sabrina-Vivian Hopcker (violin)
Dominic Cheli (piano)
Sarah Beck (cor anglais)

About

The music in this album sings and dances, in Abel’s “colourful blend of styles that serve the emotional nature of each work to bracing and poignant effect” (Gramophone). It further clarifies why Abel is “one of the most interesting figures in American contemporary music” (Pizzicato).

Composer Mark Abel has been based in California for the past three decades. Abel’s idiom eludes easy pigeon-holing. It includes chamber music and vocal works, whose contours extend from art song to larger forms with orchestra to a 103-minute chamber opera, Home is a Harbor. This is Mark’s fifth release on Delos.

The incomparable David Shifrin begins the programme with Intuition’s Dance, a combination of frolic and dreamy ruminations in which he is joined by pianist Carol Rosenberger. (This is the first time Shifrin and Rosenberger have recorded together since their memorable albums in 1984!) Next comes the remarkable Hila Plitmann singing the powerfully moving Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva — the first-ever setting of Tsvetaeva’s poetry in English translation. She is joined by Rosenberger and cor anglais player Sarah Beck.

Colourful and haunting, The Elastic Hours are brought to life with virtuosity by Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Dominic Cheli. This is Sabrina’s first Delos recording since her success with the Brahms Hungarian Dances in 2018 (DE3558). In the richly lyrical Clarinet Trio, Shifrin and Rosenberger are joined by Fred Sherry for a musical journey beginning with “The Unfolding”, moving to “Taking Flight”, and finally ending with a peaceful and tender “In Good Time”.

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