This album of world-premiere recordings is inspired by opera but without singing. As conductor Timothy Redmond says, it is “a distillation of the theatrical experience heard through the voice of the orchestra.”

The repertoire includes Jonathan Dove’s Stargazer, subtitled “an opera for trombone and orchestra,” featuring virtuoso trombonist Peter Moore. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Thomas Adès’s opera Powder Her Face. The revised Three-piece Suite from that opera has entered the repertoire of orchestras worldwide but until now lacked a commercial recording. The orchestral suite from Matthew Aucoin’s opera Eurydice was co-commissioned by Timothy Redmond along with fellow-conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. A sketch for Heath, an as-yet-unwritten opera by Aucoin is also included. Finally, the Liar Suite from Nico Muhly’s Marnie rounds out this operatic album. Redmond declares that “the dramatic orchestral suite [Muhly] draws from it stands up as its own compelling drama.”

All works are new to the WFMT library.