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# Navona Records

> Navona Records offers listeners a fresh taste of today’s leading innovators in orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and experimental music as well as prime pieces of classic repertoire\.

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## Posts
- [The Inside Story: Karl Blench, Jacqui Sutton, and OPEN SOURCE](https://www.navonarecords.com/news/inside-story-karl-blench-jacqui-sutton-open-source/)
- [The Inside Story: Bevan Manson, Ashley Hoyer, KuanFen Liu, and ECHOES OF THE LAND](https://www.navonarecords.com/news/inside-story-echoes-of-the-land/)
- [The Inside Story: What Is Noise and TEMPORAL ECHOES](https://www.navonarecords.com/news/inside-story-what-is-noise-temporal-echoes/)
- [The Inside Story: Martina Janková and DVOŘÁK EARLY SONGS](https://www.navonarecords.com/news/inside-story-martina-jankova-dvorak-early-songs/)
- [The Inside Story: Chien\-Yu Huang and WHITE CLOUDS \& GREY DOGS: ECHOES IN FLUX](https://www.navonarecords.com/news/inside-story-chien-yu-huang-white-clouds-grey-dogs-echoes-in-flux/)

## Artists
- [Jeffrey Work](https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/jeffrey-work/): Jeffrey Work joined the Oregon Symphony as Principal Trumpet in the fall of 2006, following 13 years as an active freelance musician in the Boston area\. Since 1999, he has also served as Principal Trumpet of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, during its six\-week\-long summer seasons\. As an orchestral musician, Work can be heard on several recordings, most notably as a featured performer on the Oregon Symphony’s acclaimed 2011 release Music for a Time of War\. In addition to his orchestral duties in Portland and Boulder, Work performs concerto and chamber repertoire as his busy schedule will allow\.
- [Pierre Schroeder](https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/pierre-schroeder/): Pierre Schroeder, a French native, came to music as a child, studying classical piano and transcribing themes from movie composers on the family’s piano\. Emotions are in the center of his work, and reviewers have often noted cinematic elements in his music, while describing “an imaginative musical craftsman at work, capable of evoking real wonder, mystery, reverence, and celebration\.”
- [Ivar Lunde, Jr\.](https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/ivar-lunde/): Ivar Lunde, Jr\. was born in Tønsberg, Norway, on January 15, 1944\. During his career as a performer, he added the Jr\. to his name to distinguish himself from his father who was also a conductor, pedagogue and a composer\.
Lunde, former principal oboist of the Norwegian National Opera, was educated at the Conservatory of Music, Oslo, Norway, and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria\. His teachers of oboe include Kees Lahnstein and André Lardrot; of Baroque oboe Grant Moore and James Caldwell; of composition, his father, Ivar Lunde, Sr\.; and of conducting Trygve Lindemann, Hermann Scherchen, and Carl Melles\. He has taught and performed in Europe and the United States and appeared as oboe soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Oslo Philharmonic, and many smaller orchestras in Norway, Sweden, Austria, and the United States\. 
- [Warren Gooch](https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/warren-gooch/): Warren Gooch's music has been widely performed throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America\. His work has been recognized by the National Federation of Music Clubs, Minnesota Orchestra, American Choral Directors Association, Music Teachers National Association, Percussive Arts Society, International Trumpet Guild, College Music Society, Music Educators National Conference, the Composers Guild, Composers and Songwriters International, Collegiate Band Directors National Association, American Composers Forum, and numerous other organizations\. He has been the recipient of over 30 composition awards and paid commissions, most recently including the American Prize \(finalist\)\. Approximately forty of his works have been published by Southern, Dorn, Kjos, Alliance, Flammer, Ensemble, Fred Bock, Plymouth, and other publishers\. Recordings are available on Navona Records and Centaur\.
- [Ferdinando DeSena](https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/ferdinando-desena/): Ferdinando DeSena is a Miami\-based composer who was born in Brooklyn NY\.  His earliest musical experiences were with neighborhood pop, and doo–wop groups\. He worked as musician in Ithaca NY for 13 years, playing in several regional bands as keyboard player and lead singer\. His final group was Uptown Revue, which he led for seven years

## Albums
- [Music for Brass and Piano](https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6605/): Sonatas for brass and piano are a tricky thing to pull off; in consequence, they are few and far between\. Andrew Lewinter, himself a long\-time orchestral horn player and soloist, has decided to add to the repertoire on MUSIC FOR BRASS AND PIANO: crafting four different sonatas for piano and each instrument of the brass family, and concluding with a dazzling piano quartet\.
 
The tonal language of these sonatas — for piano and trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba, respectively — draws heavily upon the Romantic tradition, but it never copies; rather, it is a reinvention of what Romanticism might have been, had it unfurled in the 21st century\. A vibrant arc of suspense gives life to each individual work and, culminating in a grand finale, to the album itself\.
- [The Bach\-Wilson Project](https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6873/): In classical music, the art of the descant — a melodic voice played above more complex music — began to fade sometime around the Romantic era\. Thankfully, violinist Peter Wilson and cellist Jennifer Kloetzel revived this lost art in THE BACH\-WILSON PROJECT\. Keeping in tradition with the Baroque era’s love of musical quotes, improvisation, and transformation, this release juxtaposes beloved classics by J\.S\. Bach with melodies by The Beatles as well as by Wilson himself\.

Kloetzel and Wilson work wonderfully as a duo, and it’s clear from the first note that these arrangements — meticulously crafted by Wilson — are a joy to play\. Bach’s eternal music serves as a sublime canvas, with Wilson’s descants and duets either floating ethereally above or fully engaged in the texture of the master: If there ever were pleasant complexity, this is it\.
- [Awaken](https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6809/): The third installment in All Classical Radio’s award\-winning Recording Inclusivity Initiative, AWAKEN continues the network’s monumental effort to rectify inequities in classical music recording\. Chamber pieces by Kirsten Volness and Nicole Buetti and an orchestral work by Nancy Ives cast women composers in the spotlight, inviting listeners from across the globe to hear imaginative new works\. These talented contemporaries partner up with award\-winning and GRAMMY®\-nominated performers to send a powerful message regarding the importance of artistic collaboration\.
- [Scattered Light](https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6874/): SCATTERED LIGHT by pianist Russell Hirshfield presents a curated program of American music for solo piano, featuring world premieres of commissioned works by Timo Andres and Mary Ellen Childs\. The album takes its title from Childs’s \<em\>Scattered Light\</em\>, a piece inspired by Rebecca Solnit's meditation on light that scatters and is lost in water and air, giving the world its depth of blue\. Adding to this theme, Andres’s \<em\>Colorful History\</em\> is an extended chaconne suffused with historical allusions\. Bookended by the moody, emotional landscapes of Tobias Picker, the release explores diverse musical characters through Libby Larsen's \<em\>4 ½ \- A Piano Suite\</em\> and selections from Carter Pann's \<em\>The Piano's 12 Sides\</em\>\.
- [Salmak, String Quartet No\. 6](https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6860/): Reza Vali’s SALMAK is a rich dialogue between tradition and modernity performed by the FLUX quartet\. The six\-movement work explores connections between traditional Persian and Western classical music through a hybrid approach Vali calls the “mixed tuning system\.” Conceived as a tribute to the Persian theorist Safi al\-Din Ormavi, the piece bridges the medieval Maqâm and contemporary Dastgâh systems\. The FLUX Quartet navigates the work's formidable intonational and metrical challenges to evoke the sonorities of traditional Persian instruments and the timeless spirit of Ormavi’s legacy\.

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