Available 10/26: "Colonnade" By Michael G. Cunningham

Although all the works appearing on Michael G. Cunningham’s Colonnade were written during the 1970s, the album maintains a timeless quality throughout. Cunningham’s works are lush and dramatic, depicting everything from early to mid- Twentieth-century paintings (Free Designs) to Greek mythology (Aedon). Colonnade is rich in texture, with electrosonics seamlessly melded with orchestral timbres in Aedon, and vocalists pairing written works by Shakespeare and Longfellow with Cunningham’s haunting melodies in the album’s closer, Symphonic Arias – Night. Of the piece, Cunningham writes: “In spite of additional imagery that each poet intended in his poem, the arias each seem to convey one aspect of the night … there is an ominous implication here, in that lovely sounds and voices ultimately pass into an unending inscrutable night.” Luckily, for listeners, Cunningham’s gorgeous works on Colonnade will not disappear into the ether like Symphonic Arias harmonically implies. Colonnade will be available everywhere on October 27 2009, and distributed by Naxos.

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