Divine Art’s new-music label Métier welcomes acclaimed pianist Carolyn Enger to its quickly-growing international roster for a new album to be released in the summer.

Resonating Earth features the music from Enger’s multimedia project of the same name. The program directly links classical music performance to environmentalism and conservation efforts with a bold aesthetic. A stylistically fluid creation with a wide range of ambient music, including John Luther Adams, Marcos Balter, John Cage, Philip Glass, Iman Habibi, Sean Hickey, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, Nico Muhly, Wolfgang Rihm and Caroline Shaw. The program seeks to transport listeners to a still, meditative space, allowing them to decompress from their daily lives, and invites introspection about humanity’s place on the planet, inspiring action to protect our beautiful, fragile world.
Internationally celebrated American pianist Carolyn Enger has gained critical acclaim for her exquisite lyrical playing, as well as her deeply felt interpretations. Ms. Enger’s touring opportunities have included venues throughout the United States and beyond, including the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, United States Military Academy West Point, the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, The National Gallery of Art in D.C., and most recently the National Gallery in Oslo. In addition to an active performance schedule on two continents, Ms. Enger has enjoyed remarkable success as a recording artist: The New York Times selected her Naxos recording of intimate Ned Rorem miniatures, Piano Album I & Six Friends, as one of the newspaper’s “Best In Classical Recordings”, writing “Among the 90th–birthday tributes this year to the essential American composer Ned Rorem, this recording especially stands out,” while Gramophone declared, “Enger raises the miniatures to a higher level.” Recently her article, The Mischlinge Exposé: Stories of Assimilation and Conversion, was published in the book Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis, by Bloomsbury Academic. Ms. Enger studied at the Manhattan School of Music and is a Steinway Artist.
Album details:
- Title: “Resonating Earth”
- Label: Métier
- Catalogue number: MEX 77128
- Artist : Carolyn Enger (piano)
- Works:
- Quarry Waltz (Meredith Monk)
- Bagatelle (Marcos Balter)
- Lilt (Nico Muhly)
- Auf einem anderen Blatt (Wolfgang Rihm)
- Orizzonte (Missy Mazzoli)
- In a Landscape (John Cage)
- Nunataks (John Luther Adams)
- Etude No. 2 (Philip Glass)
- in the brittle quietude (Iman Habibi)
- Gustave Le Gray (Caroline Shaw)
- The Birds of Barclay Street (Sean Hickey)
- Dream (John Cage)
- Reckoning (Sean Hickey)
- Ellis Island (Meredith Monk)
- Album duration: 75:52
- Recorded by Daniel Rorke at Manhattan School of Music, New York
- Editing and Mastering by Divine Art composer/performer Carson Cooman of Overtone Audio