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BMOP/sound Releases Two New Albums: Moravec, Lee
Paul Moravec: Northern Lights Electric features four compositions conjured up by the composer's own personal, visceral experiences. While walking in New Hampshire, Paul Moravec witnessed an astonishing display of the northern lights which inspired him to compose Northern Lights Electric. Clarinet Concerto was written during Moravec's artist residency in Princeton, NJ, one of his childhood hometowns. The idea for Sempre Diritto! was born while getting lost in the convolutions of Venice, Italy. And, in the Catalonian region just north of Barcelona, the legendary mountain monastery dedicated to Pablo Casals moved him to create Montserrat.
In Thomas Oboe Lee: Six Concertos, the composer, Thomas Oboe Lee, shares his unbridled enthusiasm for virtuosic performer collaborations and their subsequent acts of friendship. &bisbigliando& was written for harpist Ina Zdorovetchi, Flauta Carioca for flautist Bart Feller, Eurydice for cellist Andres Diaz, Mozartiana for pianist Robert Levin, Persephone for oboist Max Hobart, and Violin Concerto for Irina Muresanu. According to the Boston Globe, 'Lee has a subtle ear for harmony, and his rich loamy beds of sonority are deeply satisfying. He gives important roles to percussion, colorful voicing to winds and brass while the strings sustain lush chords.'
About BMOP/sound BMOP/sound, the Grammy-nominated signature record label of the acclaimed Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), an eclectic, composer-centric catalog of both rediscovered classics of the 20th century and the music of today's most influential and innovative composers. Since its launch in 2008, BMOP/sound recordings have received several accolades including: 'Best of 2008' lists for its five inaugural releases in the New York Times, Boston Globe, National Public Radio, Time Out New York, American Record Guide, and Downbeat Magazine, among others; five Grammy nominations in 2009 for Charles Fussell: Wilde, in 2010 for Derek Bermel: Voices and in 2011 for Steven Mackey: Dream House. The New York Times proclaimed, 'BMOP/sound is an example of everything done right.' For more information, visit http://www.bmopsound.org.
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