April 10, 2026 New Releases from Navona, Ravello, and Albany Records

ECHOES OF THE LAND introduces the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra in works by composers Ashley Hoyer and Bevan Manson, each exploring the character and history of distinct landscapes. Together, these works illuminate the enduring connections between land, legacy, and the environments we inhabit.

Art has always had the power to reinforce the beauty, promise, and magnitude of spiritual devotion. With OPEN SOURCE, the Axiom Quartet and baritone Timothy Jones musically embody the First Congregational Church of Houston’s ethos of searching, openness, and inclusion.

LISETTE traces the three-century journey of the earliest surviving song text in Haitian Creole, following its transformations across Haiti, France, and the United States. Emerging in colonial Saint-Domingue, Lisette quitté la plaine moved through salons, abolitionist circles, Creole households, and concert stages, absorbing new meanings along the way.

FILAMENTOS brings together works by Dominican-Canadian composer Liova Bueno, some developed through a long-standing composer–performer collaboration with guitarist Alexander Dunn, and others written subsequently, continuing the musical and aesthetic ideas shaped through their artistic dialogue.

PIANO SONATA IN F MINOR highlights pianist-composer Vytautas Smetona in a work shaped by discipline, patience, and a deep reverence for Romantic-era craft. The four-movement sonata draws its harmonic language from the world of Brahms, unfolding through intricate counterpoint, lyrical invention, and a unifying four-note motif that binds the work from beginning to end.

Chamber and vocal music blend with poetry, history, and literary imagination on THREE SILENT THINGS by composer Ingrid Stölzel. This album showcases striking musical settings of poetry by the American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, the inventor of the American cinquain poem, Adelaide Crapsey, Mohawk-Canadian poet Emily Pauline Johnson, and Sara Teasdale, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Pairing historical perspectives with works by living creators, PAGES FROM MY DIARY from Dr. Joshua Stine explores and celebrates the queer experience across generations. By amplifying voices that insist on being heard, this album echoes Harvey Milk’s famous words: “Hope will never be silent.”

Celebrating a milestone 10th installment, Bowling Green Philharmonia continues its acclaimed series spotlighting today’s most compelling compositional voices. THE COMPOSER’S VOICE: New Music from Bowling Green, Vol. 10 explores spiritual reflection, elemental mysticism, virtuosic brilliance, and social reckoning.