• Slices

    Catalog #: NV5874

    Release Date: July 1, 2012

    21st Century
    Chamber
    Solo Instrumental
    Piano
    Violin
    Wind Ensemble

    Who says eclecticism isn't a wonderful thing? Certainly not us at Navona Records. SLICES is a carefully handpicked selection of new chamber works by contemporary composers designed to showcase the diversity of modern music-making, and these pieces by Sundin, Bakker, Sainsbury, Rusnak, Beeler, and Burns cut right through the oft-repeated misconception that classical music is dead on the vine.

  • Los Ministriles in the New World

    Catalog #: NV5875

    Release Date: June 1, 2012

    Renaissance
    Chamber
    Wind Ensemble

    Follow Piffaro from Spain to the New World in the 17th century and hear a wild array of secular songs, sacred motets, dances and instrumental fantasias are all performed on Piffaro's amazing collection of period instruments. This album is an all-instrumental homage to the music of Spain that was brought from the Old World, interspersed with music that was developed in the New World and influenced by the rich native cultures that the Spaniards encountered.

  • Sculpting the Air

    Catalog #: NV5852

    Release Date: June 1, 2011

    20th Century
    Chamber
    Large Ensemble
    Wind Ensemble

    SCULPTING THE AIR is a collection of modern works featuring brass and flute instrumentations from composers Samuel Barber, James Adler, Russ Lombardi, Jan Van der Roost, Barry Seroff, Brian Gillett, Juan Sebastian Lach Lau and Richard Crosby. The works on this disc range from a rhapsodic wind quintet originally composed for winds, strings and piano to a musical representation of a familial argument to a spectral piece based on one of Satie's Gymnopédies.

  • Devisadero

    Catalog #: NV5849

    Release Date: May 1, 2011

    21st Century
    Chamber
    Vocal Music
    Piano
    Voice
    Wind Ensemble

    DEVISADERO features the original compositions of New Mexico-based composer Christopher Shultis. Through woodwinds, percussion and piano, Shultis is able to vividly describe the New Mexican wilderness and the significance of its beauty. Shultis' compositions invite the listener to experience not only the sound of the music, but what we see and think, and especially, how we breathe, as well.

  • Waytes: English Music for a Renaissance Band

    Catalog #: NV5823

    Release Date: October 1, 2010

    Renaissance
    Chamber
    Wind Ensemble

    Piffaro

  • Conversations

    Catalog #: NV5829

    Release Date: June 1, 2010

    21st Century
    Chamber
    Solo Instrumental
    Large Ensemble
    Piano
    Wind Ensemble

    Keyboard & Chamber Music John Bilotta composer David Gaines composer Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kirk Trevor conductor

  • Triptych

    Catalog #: NV5824

    Release Date: February 1, 2010

    21st Century
    Chamber
    Solo Instrumental
    Piano
    String Quartet
    Wind Ensemble

    Osias Wilenski composer