Jack Arrowsmith – Fly (Spotify)

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“Jack Arrowsmith's latest release is light enough to listen with pleasure and also filled with harmony. Balanced piece, crafted from classic instrumentation where piano melody is the leading part in a mix that avoids to become complex.”

-Nagamag.com

Fly is the latest release in a series of pieces composed around the modern relationships beginning, middle and increasingly common end. With the first release ‘Charmed’ Composed around the beginning phase of a relationship combining the excitement and trepidation as the key focus.

Fly encapsulates the ‘honeymoon’ period, where the relationship develops and takes a route in its own snowballing momentum. The repeating triad emphasizes the development of the relationship staying constant throughout the piece only to enter with small changes infrequently. The main melody relies on the polyrhythmic progression of the main triad and the second to create the outstanding notes. To the side of the piece there is a constant cascading melody played to symbolize the distractions that play a role in every relationship. To hold the structure of the piece is the low driving bass chords, the emphasis on the bass and sub tones is linked to the momentum during the honeymoon period.

When played separately, each part is seemingly insignificant and simplistic. It is only when they are all combined that they create complete unity; in the same way that a relationship relies on its key components to work.

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Mark Sutton – Without Boundaries (Spotify)

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“Music has no boundaries, it can set us free from almost every negative influence. Mark Sutton knows well how to create from classical sound, something special, bright and with Cinematic touch. Don't miss this gem.”

-Nagamag.com

A beautiful instrumental piece about freedom, releasing the shackles and expressing yourself.

https://www.instagram.com/pianoman_mark

William Philipson – Sparrow (Video)

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“Freedom through motion and delicate valleys of flower petal laced landscapes. Its deep and it seems to be clairvoyant in its own way. Excellent strings carry the soft pulsing rhythm to its own place. ”

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Directed by Dominykas B. Ivanauskis

Starring Ieva Labanauskaitė

Shot and Edited by Aurimas Čepelis

Costumes and make up by Miglė Kunickytė

Colour graded by Luke Ross (https://www.lukerosspost.com)

Strings performed by Marta Z (https://www.martazmusic.com)

https://www.williamphilipson.com/

Felipe Malaquias – Momentos (Spotify)

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“Offer yourself a moment of deep harmony and peaceful relaxation with "Momentos". Brand new and shinny Cinematic jewel from a real talent in the scene. This track starts like a faint star in the dark sky and gradually glows like the morning Sun!”

-Nagamag.com

https://felipemalaquias.com/

https://felipemalaquias.bandcamp.com/

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Rebecca Clarke x Dana Zenobi x Oliver Worthington x Chuck Dillard – Sleep (Spotify)

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“Beautiful as if morning Sun, opera with accompanying piano on the background. It's amazing how you can convey all those feelings in such a minimalistic sound. Nothing superfluous, only the pulse of delicate silence reminds itself.”

“Прекрасное, словно утреннее солнышко оперное пение с аккомпанирующим пиано на фоне. Удивительно, как можно передать все чувства в таком минималистическом звучании. Ничего лишнего, лишь только пульс безмолвной тишины напоминает о себе.”

-Nagamag.com

Navona Records presents JOYS ABIDING, an album of vocal duets by female composers including previously unpublished duets by British-American composer Rebecca Clarke, the text of which inspired the album title. The extensive track list of duets from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods is performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, Oliver Worthington, baritone, Chuck Dillard, piano/harpsichord, and David Murray, double bass. JOYS ABIDING aims to elevate the important work of female composers who have historically been excluded from the male-dominated classical duet canon.

https://www.danazenobisoprano.com/

Dana Zenobi has earned national recognition as an interpreter of Art Song by women. She has also garnered operatic success in roles ranging from Mozart and Verdi to Mark Adamo and Philip Glass, appearing with Austin Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, The Living Opera, Opera in the Heights, line upon line percussion ensemble, and the Austin Civic Orchestra. Both her performing and her studio teaching have received accolades from The American Prize.

At Butler University, she teaches studio voice, pedagogy, diction, and vocal literature courses, and directs the Butler University Vocal Competition. A grateful recipient of the 2020 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Vocal Pedagogy Award, Zenobi has presented at conferences and festivals including NATS, the International Music By Women Festival, the Voice Foundation, the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA), Bel Canto Boot Camp, and the Associated Colleges of the South Gender Studies Conference. A native of Northport NY, she earned both a D.M.A. (Voice Performance & Pedagogy) and M.M. (Opera Performance) from The University of Texas at Austin. She holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in Music and Women’s Studies from Duke University.

Shawn E. Okpebholo x J’nai Bridges x Paul Sánchez – He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands (Spotify)

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“Three artists have worked together for this Classical diamond. A colourful puzzle of delicate piano keys, mezzo-soprano vocals and cello, packed with sophisticated creativity. When you listen such music, nothing can distract you.”

-Nagamag.com

On LORD, HOW COME ME HERE?, composer Shawn Okpebholo turns the mirror of history on today’s society with his own work and a reimagined collection of spirituals by enslaved Africans and American folk hymns that draws upon music from the past to critique contemporary racial injustices in the United States and around the globe. An ensemble of mezzo-soprano (J’Nai Bridges), baritone (Will Liverman), piano (Paul Sánchez), cello, and flute poignantly bring Okpebholo’s music to life, from hopeful anthems celebrating community to laments between a mother and her Creator and hymns celebrating faith and hope over hate and fear.

https://www.shawnokpebholo.com/

Shawn E. Okpebholo is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning composer whose music has been described as “devastatingly beautiful” and “fresh and new and fearless” (The Washington Post), “affecting” (The New York Times), “searing” (The Chicago Tribune), “staggering” (The New Yorker), “lyrical, complex, singular” (The Guardian), and “powerful” (BBC Music Magazine).

Some honors include The Academy of Arts and Letters Walter Hinrichsen Award, First Place Winner of the 2020 American Prize in Composition (wind band division), Second Place Winner of the 2017 American Prize in Composition (orchestral division), First Prize Winner of the Flute New Music Consortium Composition Competition, and the Inaugural Awardee of the Leslie Adams-Robert Owens Composition Award. Granting agencies, including the National Endowment of the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, have supported Okpebholo’s work. He has received commissions from many renowned arts organizations, opera companies, soloists, chamber groups, and large ensembles — artists who have performed his works at some of the nation’s most prestigious performance spaces, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Currently, Okpebholo is in residence at the Chicago Opera Theater as their Vanguard Opera Composer and the Fifth House Ensemble as their Composer-in-Residence, and has held residencies at many universities across the United States and two in Nigeria. PBS’s NewsHour and radio stations all across the country — including NPR’s Morning Edition, SiriusXM’s “Living American” series on Symphony Hall, and Chicago’s WFMT — have featured his music. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he also studied music theory.

Okpebholo is Professor of Composition at Wheaton College-Conservatory of Music and lives in Wheaton, IL with his wife, violist Dorthy, and daughters Eva and Corinne. For his complete bio and to experience and learn more about his music, visit shawnokpebholo.com

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Wahab Moses – Last Dance (Spotify)

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“A stunning sample of the upcomming "Someofw" album is just available for all fans of Cinematic music. This piece is characteristic of its heartwarming properties. Touching melodies, smoothly unfolding and creating emotional waves with distinct melancholic impact.”

-Nagamag.com

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Gianluca Piacenza – Far from You (Spotify)

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“Peaceful and calm solo piano from the hands of "Gianluca Piacenza". There are moments when we need time to escape from every single noise and just dive in those chord vibrations. Simply and easily, isolate and seek sound perfection.”

-Nagamag.com

Artist said about this song:

"This song was inspired by the finding of an old tape cassette of me improvising at the piano when I was only 15 years old recorded secretly by my mother... a beautiful yet simple melody made all my memories come back and inspired this new emotional, melancholic and intimate lo-fi piano version."

http://www.gianlucapiacenza.it

https://www.instagram.com/pgianluca/

Markus Lehmann-Horn – Audienz beim bayerischen König (Spotify)

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“Symphonic music filled with high-quality of atmospheric and melodic plot lines, immersing us into the most pleasant mental states. Music which can tell a whole story with its wealth of vibrating waves.”

“Симфоническая музыка наполненная качественным запасом цепляющих атмосферных и мелодичных сюжетных линий, погружающих нас в самые приятные душевные состояния. Музыка, которая способна рассказать целую историю с помощью своего достояния — божественной энергии!”

-Nagamag.com

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