"This recording of music by German-born American composer Ingrid Stölzel, who is on the composition faculty of the University of Kansas, showed up on Apple's classical music A-list, certainly a pleasure for the composer and for the small Navona label that issued the music. It does indeed have broad appeal. Stölzel cultivates an intensely lyrical language that depends not on harmony ... but on other factors: pedal points, melodic lines, textural configurations of various kinds." James Manheim; Allmusic.com Read full review
"Ingrid Stölzel has a gift for evoking a sense of longing. One listen to any of the pieces on her new album The Gorgeous Nothings, released on Navona Records, makes this instantly evident. Despite the album’s breadth of music, which includes two song cycles and three standalone pieces, it finds its cohesiveness through its consistent exploration of our humanness: our search for meaning, our mortality, and the inevitable struggles that come with our existence." Hannah Rosa Schiller; I Care If You Listen. Read full review
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