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Following the release of her debut album Wings, composer Rami Levin returns with a second album of chamber music featuring some of the most celebrated Chicago-based musicians. Cavatina Duo performs the title track, where Levin draws on the Brazilian choro, characterized by fast tempi, syncopation, and counterpoint. The cross-cultural infusion continues with the Brazilian rhythms of Danças brasileiras performed by Quintet Attacca, ensemble-in-residence at the Music Institute of Chicago. Violist Anthony Devroye and cellist Cheng-Hou Lee shine in Levin’s three- movement piano trio with pianist Kuang-Hao Huang. Huang is joined by flutist Jennifer Clippert and clarinetist Barbara Drapcho for Dualidades, an exploration of living in two different cultures. Pianist Winston Choi joins Huang in the four-hand duo Dois Irmãos named after Two Brothers Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. The song cycle This Much and More is performed by soprano Amy Broadbent with Kuang-Hao Huang. Here Levin sets three poems by American women on themes of love, separation, longing, and human foibles.

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