June 10, 2022 New Releases from Navona and Ravello Records

This New Music Friday, Navona and Ravello Records presents a variety of solo and chamber works from today’s composers and performers, each conveying thought-provoking themes through their expressive and inventive compositions.

Dive in and discover new music from: Ferdinando DeSena, Misha Galaganov, John Owings, Lucia Lin, Matthew Burtner, and Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi.

Composer Ferdinando DeSena is no stranger to variation; from his previous electro-acoustic concoctions to this dynamic blend of chamber orchestrations in TOCCATA MIAMI, a world of enticing conversation between tonal opposites begs to be uncovered in these expressive compositions.

Featuring challenging virtuosic pieces alongside expressive, impressionistic masterworks, Misha Galaganov’s CHARM, PASSION, AND ACROBATICS celebrates the boundless potential of the viola. The music transports the listener to a French salon of the Belle Époque, guided by Galaganov’s sensitive and technically-masterful performances.

10 emerging composers assemble and offer insight into our societal world through music on IN TANDEM from violinist Lucia Lin. Each work featured on this album represents a social cause close to its composer’s heart, commenting on inequality and breaking down barriers by building social awareness.

If glaciers could speak, what would they tell us? On ICEFIELD, composer Matthew Burtner answers that very question with an eclectic series of works that explore the intersection between the environment and controlled sound. Each piece on the album channels the whip-crack chill of the air, the blinding snow, and the awe-inspiring sight of glacial fields breaking apart and bringing sea levels higher.

Born in Finland, educated internationally, and now living in Norway, Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi knows a thing or two about blending eclectic ideas. On her new Ravello Records release SOUNDTRACK OF AN IMAGINARY OPERA, she toys with established perceptions of music and philosophy, reconciling artificial language and acoustic explorations with deconstructionist ideas.