This New Music Friday, Navona Records presents new explorations into the aesthetic and ruminative facets of contemporary chamber music and a narrative orchestral setting of a famously harrowing tale.
Dive in to discover new music by Gustav Hoyer, Richard Crosby, and Nathan Froebe.
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Gustav Hoyer
Renowned composer Gustav Hoyer comes to Navona Records with an ambitious and harrowing seven-part orchestral setting of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Hoyer is no-holds-barred in his talent for the narrative orchestra, producing a musical journey packed with all the intensity and horror of the text from which it hails.
BY THE WATERS OF MEMORY
Richard Crosby
Richard Crosby’s BY THE WATERS OF MEMORY features two scintillating chamber duos with piano and a charming tetralogy of Latin dances for piano and oboe. But perhaps the greatest revelation arrives in the form of trenchantly beautiful solo piano pieces, which bear all the hallmarks of unadulterated classical-romantic genius. If Schubert had been an American, he would have sounded like this.
TWO BY THREE
Nathan Froebe
Performed by Duo Rouge and Michael Seregow, Nathan Froebe’s TWO BY THREE is a selection of energetic, freetonal, and programmatic pieces for a myriad of flutes and piano — an exuberant and ruminative release that sweeps through the mind like a fresh breeze on a crisp April morning.
Máscaras: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra: I. “Máscara Flor”
Portland Symphony Orchestra
Máscaras: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra: I. “Máscara Flor,” the first single from the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming album, MÁSCARAS, is now available to stream on Spotify. Find the full release from Navona Records on February 9, 2024.
