Michelle Cann & Thomas Mesa – Our Stories: Contemporary Works by Black and Latinx Composers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:37 minutes | 833 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Featuring cellist Thomas Mesa and pianist Michelle Cann, OUR STORIES from Navona Records aims to raise the voices of composers and performers from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in classical music. Made possible by PARMA Recordings and a Sphinx MPower Grant, this release musically conveys a diverse mixture of themes and topics, from the intricacies and curiosities of human communication to fear-inducing information prevalent in the media, reflections on the acceptance of life’s inevitable changes and losses, and more. Dive in and explore the masterful contemporary works of Andrea Casarrubios, Carlos Carrillo, Kevin Day, Sebastian Quesada, and Mario Oyanadel.
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Thomas Mesa & Yoon Lee – Division of Memory (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:46 minutes | 784 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
I’ll be traveling to New York in March for the launch concert of Thomas Mesa and Yoon Lee’s CD of works for ‘cello and piano, including my work Novella (Chapter One). The DiMenna Center website link is below:
“Join GRAMMY nominated Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa for an evening of music at the DiMenna Center in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. Accompanied by Yoon Lee, Special Prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Mesa will be performing both classic and modern works.
This eclectic program showcases both Mesa and Lee’s masterful playing – featuring works by Jonathan Chenette, George Holloway, Lydia Pugh, Elizabeth Start, and Ben-Yee Paulson as well as Debussy’s Sonata in D minor.”
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