Release Date: September 9, 2016
Catalog #: NV6057
TRACK LISTING
Whirlwind Daniel Burwasser
Arcadian Winds | Vanessa Holroyd, flute; Mark Miller,
clarinet; Jane Harrison, oboe; Laura Carter, french Horn;
Janet Underhill, bassoon
1 I. Quarter note = 84
2 II. Quarter note = 70
3 III. Dotted quarter note = 100
Florébius Allan Crossman
Eusebius Duo | Monika Gruber, violin; Hillary Nordwell, piano
4 Romance
5 Novelette
6 His Branches Run Over the Wall David DeVasto
Sam Stapleton, violin; Emmalee Hunnicutt, cello;
Seong-Sil Kim, piano
7 Farewell… for String Quartet Michael Lee
Vit Muzik, violin; Igor Kopyt, violin; Dominika Mužíková, viola;
Petr Nouzovský, cello
Sinking Islands Georges Raillard
David William Ross, guitar
8 I.
9 II.
10 III.
CREDITS
Whirlwind
Recorded January 28, 2016 at MixOne Studios, in Boston MA
Recording Session Producer Matt Konrad
Recording Session Engineer Adam Weiss
Florébius
Recorded March 22, 2016 at Recital Hall, San Francisco
Conservatory of Music in San Francisco CA
Recording Session Producer Allan Crossman
Recording Session Engineer/Editing and Mixing Mark Lemaire
Production Manager, SFCM Seth Ducey
His Branches Run Over the Wall
Recorded Live on March 9, 2008 in Clapp Recital Hall at
The University of Iowa, Iowa City IA
Recording Session Producer Joel Boyer
Recording Session Engineer John Towner
Farewell… for String Quartet
Recorded October 13th, 2015 at Reduta Hall, in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Recording Session Producer Richard Mlynář
Recording Session Engineer Aleš Dvořák
Sinking Islands
Recorded September 4, 2015 at The Studio, in Portland ME
Recording Session Producer Andy Happel
Recording Session Engineer Micah Davis
Executive Producer Bob Lord
Executive A&R Sam Renshaw
A&R Chris Robinson, Alex Bourne
Recording Session Manager Matt Konrad
Audio Director Jeff LeRoy
Production Engineer Nate Hunter
Art & Production Director Brett Picknell
Graphic Design Ryan Harrison
Marketing Morgan MacLeod
Between the Echoes
Daniel Burwasser
Allan Crossman
David DeVasto
Michael Lee
Georges Raillard
OVERVIEW
Navona’s latest compilation release, BETWEEN THE ECHOES, showcases selected recent chamber works, expressing the common theme of recollections and interpretations of past experiences. Moving across the spectrums of moods and dramatics, each piece brings a harmonic resolution to its soulful journey. This album joins multiple personalities in a collection of propulsive musical expression.
For some pieces on the album, musical tradition is a source of inspiration. Burwasser’s colorful woodwind quintet Whirlwind imbues a familiar instrument group and classical forms with imaginative, lyrical melodies, culminating in a distinctly Haydn-esque finale. In his dramatic and spontaneous Florébius for violin and piano, Crossman weaves new interactions between Schumann’s favorite characters, the introverted Eusebius and the extroverted Florestan—“one within the other, one lurking behind the other, each ready to take center-stage.” Elsewhere, tradition is gleefully thrown to the wind—such as with Lee’s stunning Farewell… for string quartet, with its ever-shifting rhythms, timbres, and moods. In an intensely personal musical display, Raillard’s melancholic Sinking Islands for solo guitar uses interconnecting minimalist figures to meditate on mortality. DeVasto’s lush trio His Branches Run Over The Wall for violin, cello, and piano is inspired by the biblical account of the dream interpreter Joseph, conjuring an entangled web of melodies and harmonies to create a “musical dreamscape”—one of several new and familiar sound worlds to be found on the album.
HIGHLIGHTS
Daniel Burwasser award-winning music has been performed worldwide, and has been featured on the Navona releases DIMENSIONS (NV5895) which includes his piece Flux, as well as LUMINESCENCE (NV5969) which showcases his work Catching Fireflies
Recordings of David DeVasto’s compositions have been featured on Navona Records, the most recent of which being the compilation release CRIMSON & LACE (NV6006), which Gramophone praises as “Another in Navona Records’ typically intense and varied compilations of new music presents sympathetic, earnest performances of three under-the-radio American composers struggling to find consolation amid emotional uncertainty, hopelessness and pain.”
Swiss composer Georges Raillard has written over 50 pieces for guitar. Sinking Islands, his contribution to this compilation, is performed by David William Ross
Award-winning composer Michael Lee composes in a variety of eclectic styles, with influences ranging from Stravinsky to early rock and jazz to 16th century polyphony. His featured piece on this release, Farewell…, is performed by the MFO Chamber Players
Allan Crossman has written for notable soloists and ensembles worldwide on both concert and theater stages. His work on this compilation, Florébius, was written for and performed by the Eusebius Duo
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