October 28, 2022 New Releases from Navona, Ravello, and Big Round Records

This New Music Friday, Navona, Ravello, and Big Round Records present albums that highlight new voices in music, each unique in their influences and expressions.

Dive in and discover new music from: Beth Mehocic, Gregory W. Brown, Ferdinando DeSena, Mark Dal Porto, Eric Klein, Don Bowyer, Sergio Cervetti, Daniel Perttu, Mark John McEncroe, Hans Bakker, Brian Wilbur Grundstrom, London Symphony Orchestra, Miran Vaupotić, All Classical Portland, Jesse Passenier, Alexander Tchobanov, Caleb Vaughn-Jones, and Miguel Kertsman.

Navona Records presents SPARKS: EYE OF LONDON, an assembly of original fanfares performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Drawing from the compositional strengths of today’s composers, the orchestra navigates chaos and order, isolation, and ascension towards triumph through passionate orchestral writing.

All Classical Portland presents AMPLIFY, a response to the industry’s inequities in classical music recordings. As the 1,000th album brought to life by parent organization PARMA Recordings, this important Navona Records release marks a monumental achievement in highlighting voices in classical music, and is a step in helping to change America’s playlist.

On FIGHT FOR LIGHT, Dutch composer Jesse Passenier explores the peripheries of jazz and classical, marrying the two genres together through symphonic music. The music presents a struggle for strength, goodness, and clarity, in which moments for great energy and urgency give way to quiet purity.

What do Beethoven, Bartók and Bulgaria’s national composer Vladigerov have in common? This is the question posed by Bulgarian pianist Alexander Tchobanov on his new album ECLECTIC SOUNDS, where he unveils the composers’ inner workings with previously-unheard, razor-sharp clarity.

TWO WORLDS CALLED HOME is inspired by composer Caleb Vaughn-Jones’s nine-year journey as an American living abroad in South Africa. Joined by pianist Hsin-I Huang, Vaughn-Jones employs his skill as a cellist to express the joys and sacrifices he encountered on this incredible adventure.

From genre-smashing composer and keyboardist Miguel Kertsman and drummer Ernie Adams comes IN THE MOMENT, an album that leaps over musical boundaries and defies any label. Kertsman’s vintage analog keyboards, bass pedals, and Adams’ drums work in tandem to duck and weave between musical forms, mingling with progressive rock, jazz fusion, Brazilian, Eastern, and more.