Delos Diary

Chamber Music Northwest, the five week music festival which is a summer highlight every June and July in Portland, Oregon, has published a very attractive brochure outlining its programs and artists for the 2004 season. Rabid chamber music lovers will surely salivate over all the wonderful programs Oregon audiences will soon enjoy.
Which brings us back to our amazing Delos catalog. We have six CDs available, all of which feature Chamber Music Northwest. Many of the artists we recorded will play in the upcoming festival. The repertoire on these CDs is overall as exciting as the 2004 offerings, and the quality of the recordings is up to the best Delos standards.
If it is impossible to get to Portland, these Delos recordings should help fill the gap. Eleven of the artists listed in the new brochure also play on our recordings. They include outstanding instrumentalists such as David Shifrin, clarinet; Theodore Arm, Ida and Ani Kavafian, violins; Paul Neubauer and Steven Tenenbom, violas; Fred Sherry, cello; Edgar Meyer, bass; Allan Vogel, oboe; Julie Feves, bassoon; and Ransom Wilson, flute (in the 2004 brochure he is listed only as a conductor). The repertoire on these six CDs ranges from compositions by Mozart and Brahms to Bartok and Messaien and also includes seldom-heard scores by Bernard Hermann, David Diamond, Quincy Porter, Charles Ives, Carl Nielsen, Charles Loeffler, David Schiff and Sergei Prokofiev.
Surely a true festival of chamber music to rival any live offering this summer. Here are the numbers: DE 3020, DE 3043, DE 3058, DE 3066, DE 3088, and DE 3136.