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
Theatro
Maxim Rysanov Evelyn Chang
Inon Barnatan
David Fruhwirth & Henri Sigfridsson
Andrew Maginley
Thomas Zehetmair
Slattery/Urquhart
Semyon Bychkov
Klangforum Wien, Schallfeld Ensemble, Arditti Quartet
Klangforum Wien
Perle: Piano Works
Decibel
Xenia Pestova-Bennett, Stephen Richardson, Claire Booth, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sian
Zoe Martlew, Ben Goldscheider, Lucy Schaufer, Huw Watkins, Mark Simpson, Alessandro Fisher, Lana Bo
Matthew Schellhorn
Bruce Wolosoff
