January 29, 2004
Delos Diary
Delos InsiderFebruary will be a busy month for three Russian artists featured on Delos releases. Serge Larin, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Marina Domashenko will all be singing at New York's Metropolitan Opera for a total of nine performances between February 3rd and February 28th.
Serge Larin, tenor, plays the pretender Dimitri in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov Tuesday, February 3, Friday February 6, Tuesday February 10, and Saturday evening February 14.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone, moves into the Met production of Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades on the evenings of Tuesday February 24 and Friday February 27, and then changes character Saturday night the 28th to challenge Renée Fleming as Giorgio Germont in Verdi's La Traviata.
Finally, beauteous Marina Domashenko, mezzo, sings her two final Maddelenas in Verdi's Rigoletto, Wednesday February 4 and on the Saturday matinee, February 7 (this performance will be broadcast). Later in the season, she will venture more Verdi at the Met playing Fenena in Nabucco.
If you happen to miss all of these, there are always Delos recordings available. A lot less expensive too!
January 16, 2004
Delos Diary
Delos Insider
Halfway into the month of January 2004, and we're all looking forward to the release of a Delos first — the premiere organ recording from the new Cathedral of Our Lady of The Angels in Los Angeles. I have previewed this CD a number of times and feel sure that it will impress the organ aficionado both with the quality of the sound and the quality of the music. Samuel Soria (Sal to his friends), the Cathedral's organist, formerly organist at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral for nine years, plays with virtuosic skill and abandon. His selection of repertoire demonstrates the vast range of this state-of-the-art instrument.
The CD packaging offers an extra surprise. It folds out into a four-color poster which illustrates the dramatic and triumphant look of the cathedral organ as seen from a close-up vantage point.
Buy this beauty, turn up the volume, and break a lease!
January 06, 2004
Delos at CES
Audio TechGreetings, music lovers and web surfers!
I'm happy to announce that Delos will be represented at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.