New Release Guide

October 2018

INTERFACES

Jeff Morris

 

Electro-acoustic | Jazz

 

Jeff Morris’s newest release, INTERFACES, connects traditional instrumentation with enigmatic, experimental electronic sound. The composer tests the listener, challenging the conventional listening experience with the integration of many complex channels of sound.

 

ravellorecords.com/epk/interfaces

my symphonic poems

Mark John McEncroe

 

Orchestral

 

Launching his career as a composer while in his late thirties, Mark John McEncroe brings his extensive life experience to inform and shape his work, which reflects his desire to create an emotional platform, a space in which listeners can think and feel about the subject matter of each piece. This ambition is fully realized in MY SYMPHONIC POEMS.

 

navonarecords.com/epk/symphonicpoems

MUSIC FROM THE ETHEREAL SIDE OF PARADISE

John A. Carollo

 

Classical

 

John A. Carollo’s fourth PARMA release is a wondrous musical journey through the world of desire.  With MUSIC FROM THE ETHEREAL SIDE OF PARADISE, Carollo makes an impassioned plea for the power of romance.

 

navonarecords.com/epk/etherealside

SPECTRA VOL. 2

Connecticut Composers, Inc.: Elizabeth R. Austin,

John Alan Rose, Juliana Hall, Ryan Jesperson, Frank Vasi, Nancy Tucker

 

Classical

 

PARMA Recordings proudly presents SPECTRA 2, the second release by Connecticut Composers, Inc., an organization of composers previously or currently living in Connecticut. Spanning a variety of musical genres, this album presents a diverse selection of the freshest contemporary music created by CCI's members.

 

navonarecords.com/epk/spectra2

IN YOUR HEAD: New music for piano four hands

Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt

 

Piano

 

Thirty years of combining forces in the piano four-hand genre has led to this moment. Navona

Records proudly presents IN YOUR HEAD, a collection of works commissioned for piano duo

Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt, in which their performances illustrate the inner workings of

the minds of St. Francis, lucid dreamers - and your own.

 

navonarecords.com/epk/inyourhead

LEGENDS AND LIGHT

Hans Bakker, Jan Järvlepp, Clive Muncaster, Shirley Mier, String Quartet

 

Modern Classical

 

From a heroic battle against a threatening beast to the tenderness of romantic love, LEGENDS

AND LIGHT is an epic journey through the spectrum of human emotion and experience, as told through the voices of the large ensemble.

 

navonarecords.com/epk/legendsandlight

MEZZANINE SEAT

Michael G. Cunningham, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra

 

Orchestral

 

PARMA veteran composer Michael Cunningham invites you to sit back and enjoy the thrilling

production of his latest album MEZZANINE SEAT. Comprised of four large works, Cunningham presents themes of dramatic narrative and tension. MEZZANINE SEAT creates an atmosphere where the instruments seem to converse with one another, carrying the narrative through the entire album.

 

navonarecords.com/epk/mezzanineseat

When you are reminded by the instruments

Hayes Biggs

 

Modern Classical

 

Composer Hayes Biggs' WHEN YOU ARE REMINDED BY THE INSTRUMENTS is a veritable portrait of an artist unafraid to explore a realm beyond common notions of tonality and atonality. This versatile album entices to a boundary-pushing journey into a truly original mind conceiving truly original musical worlds.

 

navonarecords.com/epk/remindedbyinstruments

PIANO WORKS OF KENNETH A. KUHN

Kenneth A. Kuhn, Chiharu Naruse

 

Piano

 

Composer and pianist Kenneth A. Kuhn, after finding the music he wanted to hear did not exist, strove to bring his own musical visions to life. The result, PIANO WORKS OF KENNETH A. KUHN, is a cathartic journey through the memories and imagination of the composer. Romantic in quality, thematic, memorable, and deeply moving, Kuhn’s latest work leaves listeners feeling enriched and enchanted.

 

bigroundrecords.com/epk/kuhnpianoworks

 

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