In a Grove CD
featured on New York Times
Best Classical Music Albums of 2023 list.

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This debut studio album, out on In a Circle Records, was recorded in 2022–23 by Mike Tierney at Shiny Things Studios and Bunker Studio in Brooklyn and produced by Christopher Cerrone and Jonny Gandelsman. The recording was made possible with support by Nancy and Barry Sanders, Raulee Marcus and Steve Block, and the Metropolis Ensemble. Designed by still-room studio.

Conducted by Andrew Cyr. With Lyndsay Kesselman, Chuanyuan Liu, Andrew Turner and Taylor Ward.

PRESS

THE NEW YORK TIMES “The album — vividly produced by Cerrone, Mike Tierney and Andrew Cyr, who here also conducts the nimble Metropolis Ensemble — is not a mere document of the premiere, but a creation of its own, carefully considered for the studio… commanding attention until the end.”

GRAMOPHONE “In A Grove is an engrossing and complete experience... Cerrone evokes the fragility of memory from the outset... Metropolis articulates his economical writing for nine players with vivid nuance.”

TEXTURA “Mesmerizes from start to finish. In a Grove provides further confirmation of Cerrone's singular gifts and why Christopher Cerrone is justly regarded as one of today's leading composers.”

WRUU INTERVIEW with Dave Lake, Christopher Cerrone & Stephanie Fleischmann

OPERAWIRE “A mesmerizing debut… In a Grove benefits from the meticulous playing of Metropolis…and imbues the album with a sense of fidelity to its creators’ vision.”

VAN “This opera is really structurally focused around storytelling. Everything that happens in the interrogation room is true.”

MUSICAL AMERICA WORLDWIDE: “Cerrone was Pulitzer-nominated for his opera Invisible Cities. In a Grove is more than a fitting successor.”