Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores the relationships between machines, humanity and nature in three unique concertos. Dreamachine for solo percussion and orchestra is a colorful tribute to the imagination of inventors who dreamed of new machines, both real and surreal. The flute concerto Trail of Tears dramatizes the tragic governmental forced relocation of Native Americans in 1838 and meditates on how the human spirit discovers ways to deal with adversity. Reflections on the Mississippi for tuba and orchestra is a musical voyage down the legendary Mississippi River from Iowa to Louisiana.

The Albany Symphony, conducted by David Alan Miller, delivers mesmerizing performances by three outstanding women soloists: Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, flautist extraordinaire Amy Porter, and Carol Jantsch, the remarkable principal tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Naxos has a very successful series of Michael Daugherty recordings, which had won numerous recognitions including six Grammy Award wins, particularly Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 2011 for his piano concerto Deus ex Machina (8559635) and in 2017 for the cello concerto Tales of Hemingway.

Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie has previously recorded Daugherty’s UFO with the Colorado Symphony and Marin Alsop (8559165). Glennie also recorded Corigliano’s percussion concerto Conjurer (8559757) with the Albany Symphony and David Alan Miller, which won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. She recently released a disc of purely improved music as part of The Core-tet Project (8573804).