Archives for June 2005
Delos Artists Celebrate after Falstaff
Hvorostovsky-Orbelian Hero Cities Tour, Part V
Eureka! Constantine Orbelian has been able to eke out enough time from his impossibly busy schedule to continue his wonderful series of articles narrating the fascinating story of the Hvorostovsky-Orbelian-Moscow Chamber Orchestra tour of Russian “Hero Cities.”
This tour, remember, was to be an 8-city celebration of the end of World War II, climaxing on Sunday […]
Hvorostovsky-Orbelian Hero Cities Tour, Part IV
Upon receiving this new installment of Constantine Orbelian’s journal describing Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s “Hero Cities” tour, we took out our trusty atlas and an old-fashioned ruler and made a few guesses at the total number of miles this ambitious project will finally cover.
Our estimate comes to well over 5,000 miles in about two weeks. The longest […]
Hvorostovsky-Orbelian Hero Cities Tour, Part II
As a preface to this 2nd installment of Constantine Orbelian’s account of Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s War Song Tour of Russian “Hero Cities,” we urge you to read this chapter and not to miss any of those yet to come. If Orbelian were not a famous musician he would certainly qualify as a first-rate writer-historian-journalist! The deatils […]
The Virtuoso Flute - Raffaele Trevisani / Paola Girardi (DE 3340)
Never was a CD more aptly titled than this recent Delos release featuring the artistry of flutist Raffaele Trevisani and pianist Paola Girardi.
This new flute and piano CD of 19th century repertoire demonstrates the enormous advances in virtuosic playing made possible with mechanical improvements added to the instrument in the first third of the century.
Composers […]
