The Louisville Orchestra with Music Director Teddy Abrams, Dashon Burton, and Jeffrey Kahane present The Year of Silence on PENTATONE, featuring commissioned works by Christopher Cerrone and Andrew Norman.

Cerrone’s The Year of Silence is inspired by Kevin Brockmeier’s short story about a city that mysteriously falls silent, a text the composer first encountered in 2010 but only returned to during the early months of the pandemic. Choosing to preserve as much of the text as possible, Cerrone shapes the work around a narrator who moves between speech and song – written with Burton’s voice in mind – while the orchestra evokes a world where silence is not emptiness but a warm, enveloping presence. Under Abrams’ direction, the Louisville Orchestra brings this sound world to life through unconventional textures and gestures.

The Year of Silence will be released digitally in full on June 26th. Preorder the album and listen to the first single here.