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SOMM RECORDINGS announces the eagerly anticipated Volume 3 of Treasures from the New World throwing revealing new light on music from the Americas. Pianist Clelia Iruzun returns, accompanied by feted guitarist and Royal Academy of Music Professor Fabio Zanon (who provides informative booklet notes) and celebrated flautist Marcelo Barboza, both making their label debuts. Works by six Brazilian composers for permutations of guitar, flute and piano are featured, three of which ? by Marlos Nobre, Ronaldo Miranda and Joao Luiz ? are First Recordings. Also included is American composer Jennifer Higdon, whose questing flute and piano duet, Legacy, is a rhetorical meditation on suffering and loss. Composed for Iruzun in 2011, Nobre?s Desafio No.37 pits guitar and piano against each other echoing Brazil?s jousting troubadour tradition; Miranda?s single-movement Alumbramentos for flute and piano fuses the traditional and the new; Luiz?s Tres na Pipa an animated depiction of three duelling kites; Paulo Porto Alegre?s Choro Suite for guitar and flute blending dance forms with improvisatory-like brilliance.Radames Gnattali?s Sonatina No.2 is a charming guitar and piano dialogue, Roberto Sierra?s Cronicas del Descubrimiento (Chronicles of Discovery) a major addition to the flute and guitar repertoire.
