Pinnacle, Vol. 2 – Contemporary Chamber Works (2021) is a multi-composer compilation released by Navona Records, presenting a collection of 21st-century chamber works for solo instrumental and ensemble settings. Featuring music for clarinet, piano, and string quartet, the album highlights the melodic, emotive, and dramatic possibilities of contemporary chamber composition.
The release includes works by Kong-Yu Wong, Santiago Kodela, Amintas Silva, John A. Carollo, Adnan Marafi, Edmund Cionek, Sarah Wallin Huff, and Joseph T. Spaniola. Across the album, the composers explore themes of cyclicity, nature, cultural identity, and expressive transformation. Melodic ideas expand into complex textures, tonal and modern idioms intersect, and structural forms evoke the ebb and flow of natural and emotional landscapes.
Santiago Kodela’s contribution, Euphoria, is a contemporary string quartet that explores expressive intensity through layered harmonic movement and evolving rhythmic interplay. The work reflects Kodela’s ongoing engagement with chamber music as a space for structural clarity and emotional depth.
Released September 24, 2021 (Catalog No. NV6368), Pinnacle, Vol. 2 forms part of Navona Records’ commitment to presenting new music by international composers working within today’s contemporary classical landscape.
This release is currently sold out.
Digital download of Santiago Kodela’s contribution, Euphoria, is available separately.
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