e PLURIBUS UNUM (Navona Records, August 28, 2020)
Music by American composers with an immigrant background.
Liza Stepanova announces the August 28, 2020 release of her new album E Pluribus Unum on Navona Records. This collection showcases nine renowned American composers with immigrant backgrounds, including Lera Auerbach, Anna Clyne, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kamran Ince, Reinaldo Moya, Pablo Ortiz, and world premiere recordings of music by Chaya Czernowin, Badie Khaleghian, and Eun Young Lee.
Tones & Colors (CAG Records, 2018)
Music inspired by visual art, spanning the centuries between Bach and Ligeti.
This collection showcases the cross-pollination between visual and aural media through 13 pieces of music, spanning the centuries between Bach and Ligeti, inspired by paintings, drawings, and sculptures. The CD includes works by Enrique Granados, Maurice Ohana, Joaquín Turina, Fanny Hensel, Bohuslav Martinů, Claude Debussy, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Crumb, György Ligeti, Lyonel Feininger, Leopold Godowsky, each paired with a piece of visual art. Recorded in July 2016 in New York City with Grammy Award-winning engineer/producer Adam Abeshouse.
“an ambitiously vast, meticulously played range of works beginning with Bach and ending in our time with George Crumb... Stepanova smartly programs the album as she would a concert”
— New York Music Daily
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THE GARDEN: SONGS & VoCAL CHAMBER MUSIC OF Tom Cipullo (albany REcords, 2018)
World-premiere recordings of vocal chamber music by award-winning American composer Tom Cipullo.
With Laura Strickling, soprano; Naomi O'Connell and Jennifer Beattie, mezzo; Ian McEuen, tenor; Steven Eddy and Michael Anthony McGee, baritone; Stephanie Kwak, flute; Edward Klorman, viola.
“excellent performances … by the composer’s ‘dream team of interpreters’”
— American Record Guide
“After A Dream” – Lysander Piano Trio
The ensemble’s debut recording on CAG Records, Victor Elmaleh Collection, features works by Haydn, Ravel, Schubert, Turina, and Zorman.
Album notes by Liza Stepanova
As we began collecting the program for our debut recording, we noticed that many of the works we were drawn to—across varied styles—shared the exploration of fantasy, imagination, and color. These qualities are beautifully exemplified by the trio of Maurice Ravel, which is the focal point of this album, and the surrounding works are connected to it in various ways: indebtedness to folk music (particularly Spanish), light and dark, day and night, with a special emphasis on the mysterious, dreamy nocturnal side…
Voices, Reimagined
Mark Records, 2017. Debut album by Yargo Trio. Works by Koechlin, Doppler, Schubert, Faure, Strauss, and Peterson. With Angela Jones-Reus, flute and Connie Frigo, clarinet.
American Song @ SongFest
Recipient of the SOREL ORGANIZATION Medallion in Recording.
As part of this forthcoming CD, Ms. Stepanova is featured in two world-premiere recordings of “Vocalism” by John Harbison, with soprano Kristina Bachrach, and “House” by Tom Cipullo with baritone Michael Anthony McGee.
Visit songfest.us for more information. Released by SongFest Records in June 2016.