Release Date: 17 October 2025
Label: Avie Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252281026
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Composer/Series: Blue Mantra
Description
Composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff describes the essence of his new album, Blue Mantra, as an engagement in multiple dialogues - between music and visual art, between the blues and chamber music, and between various moments in his creative life. The title track was inspired by a painting of the same name by his artist-wife Margaret Garrett. Similarly, Matisse Fantasies arose from seeing a charcoal drawing by the celebrated French impressionist. Blues for the New Millennium, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution to commemorate the turn of the century, expresses a "before" and "after", and marked a turning point in Bruce's compositional style as he embraced a more directly lyrical, melodic compositional voice.
All three works are scored for clarinet, piano and varied strings, and revel in bluesy lyricism alongside Bruce's formidable pianism and the virtuosity of his collaborators: clarinettist Narek Arutyunian, violinists Deborah Buck and Michelle Ross, and cellist Clarice Jensen.
Tracklisting
Lynda O'Connor; Anamus; David Brophy
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, André de Ridder, Jennifer Koh & I
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, Ensemble La Nef
Inbal Segev, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Marin Alsop
Vasily Petrenko
The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Proteus Ensemble; Stephen Shellard
Benjamin Hochman
Bruce Wolosoff
Bruce Wolosoff, Sara Sant'Ambrogio
