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Join BMOP/sound on a musical journey inspired by the age of the troubadours through late Romanticism and into twenty-first century string music on our latest release John Corigliano: To Music. Guitar soloist Eliot Fisk joins BMOP in performing award-winning music from John Corigliano.

From composer Roger Reynolds, who pioneered sound spatialization, intermedia, and algorithmic concepts, Roger Reynolds: Violin Works comprises three violin concertos written over a 15-year span. Featuring longtime BMOP member Gabriela Díaz as soloist, this disc explores what Reynolds calls the violin's "multifaceted voice."

Gail Kubik's Pulitzer Prize-winning Symphony Concertante anchors the latest release on BMOP/sound featuring BMOP regular Terry Everson as trumpet soloist, BMOP favorite Vivian Choi as piano soloist, and introducing viola soloist Jing Peng. Percussionist Robert Schulz and narrator Frank Kelley shine in the concert version of the score to the Oscar-winning cartoon Gerald McBoing Boing, written by Dr. Seuss, and two Divertimenti inspired by Kubik's work in film music round out Gail Kubik: Symphony Concertante.

Embark on a musical journey through the young but accomplished career of Medford-native Matthew Aucoin's music. Kicking off a longterm collaboration between BMOP and the American Modern Opera Company this double disc BMOP/sound release features soloists such as pianist Conor Hanick, tenor Paul Appleby, and bass-baritone Davóne Tines.

Composer John Harbison's fifth release on the BMOP/sound label collects three orchestral works spanning Harbison's long, illustrious career. Soprano Dawn Upshaw joins BMOP for this portrait of Harbison's orchestral music.

BMOP/sound's latest release is Tod Machover: Death and the Powers, the MIT composer's "robot opera." Featuring baritone James Maddalena as Simon Powers, this opera explores the intersection of humans and technology, corporate superpowers and wealth inequality, and the nature of consciousness itself—what does it mean to be "alive"? With electronic realizations by the composer and sound design by Ben Bloomberg, this is the first BMOP/sound release in Dolby Atmos, available exclusively on Apple Music.

Written on spec by Arnold Rosner in 1984, with a libretto based on the play of the same name by Florence Stevenson, this opera remained unheard until BMOP and Odyssey Opera premiered it in February of 2020. Now, BMOP/sound has made it available for all to hear in SACD format. Featuring soprano Megan Pachecano as Lady Jane Grey and BMOP/Odyssey Opera favorites such as James Demler, David Salsbery Fry, Aaron Engebreth, and Krista River, among others, this recording will transport you to 1554 London for a tragic tale.

From one of America's pre-eminent large orchestral composers comes two works for chamber orchestra. John Adams's wild and hectic Chamber Symphony and the groovy Son of Chamber Symphony bookend this release with a minimalist meditation, Common Tones in Simple Time, in the middle. "Meep meep."

From ancient Greece to colonial Virginia, explore two legends through the eyes of dance on the latest BMOP/sound release Elliott Carter: Ballets. With fifteen minutes of music restored from the suite version, the world premiere recording of the complete Pocahontas ballet revisits the tale of the native princess and the English colonist John Smith. Carter's only other ballet, The Minotaur retells the myth of Theseus as he conquers King Minos's maze and monster and is led to safety by Ariadne.

On the latest release from BMOP/sound, Robert Carl: White Heron, composer Robert Carl takes the listener on a cross-country journey, recalling a drive across the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains, reminiscing on porch conversations, and remembers a particularly curious heron.