ABLAZE Records seventh volume of unique contemporary works for orchestra features Derek M. Jenkins fanciful takes on his snapshot memories of his childhood in Of Vigils and Storms; Jeremy Piper’s colorful and evocative suite on the legend of Yasparia in his Gated Mountains of Yasparia; Hong Kong composer Roger Fong’s beautiful and imagistic Rhapsody on a Night by the Maple Bridge; Heather Niemi Savage’s folk tune inspired Daughter of the Stars; Australian Sally Greenaway’s powerful and lyrically melodic Worlds Within Worlds and Marco Muilwijk’s inventively scored and gorgeously colored Fantasy for Orchestra.

As usual, the tremendously artful and skillfully precise maestro Mikel Toms leads the virtuosic Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in this wonderful disc of premier recordings. Highly recommended!