August 13, 2021 New Releases from Navona Records

This New Music Friday, Navona Records presents two new albums and a new physical release of vocal works and chamber music, all of which find common ground in their cultural and compositional diversity.

Dive in and discover new music from: Brian Field, Wieslaw Rentowski, and Monika Gurak.

Brian Field has penned music for everything from orchestra and chamber settings to ballet and television, sprinkling in influences of post-romanticism, minimalism, and jazz. On his album VOCAL WORKS, Field presents six pieces with the Budapest Chorus, who bring dynamism and emotion to every note with conductor Martón Tóth.  Enjoy a traditional Sephardic lullaby, musical interpretations of Pablo Neruda’s and E. E. Cummings’ poetry, and works with texts written by the composer himself.

Internationally-renowned composer Wieslaw Rentowski presents CHAMBER WORKS, an album whose works span three decades of Rentowski’s chamber music oeuvre. Celebrating a multitude of cultures and employing unique musical textures, this varied and inviting release showcases the breadth and depth of Rentowski’s compositions. 

Monika Gurak certainly is no ordinary songwriter: not just because of her academic background, but also because of her love of foreign cultures. Her linguistic fluency in English, Spanish, and Polish heavily influences her work on I LOVE YOU LIKE SPAIN: the songs are sung in English, but the music comes with a generous helping of both Iberian exoticism as well as Polish sensibility.