The music of Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy-winning composer, Roberto Sierra, is performed worldwide and has long been admired for its confluence of Caribbean elements and inventive modernist language. The works on this album cover a decade’s worth of composition and examine crucial concepts – the idea of time in music; creative new applications of sonata form with regard to mood, tempo and character; and evocations of images seen through Latin American eyes. Continuum, directed by Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, has enjoyed a 40-year friendship with Sierra, receiving dedications and premiering numerous of his compositions.

This is Continuum’s fourth Roberto Sierra disc and celebrates a 40-year musical friendship that began in 1983.

Continuum’s New Music with a Caribbean Accent (8559263), was described by MusicWeb International as ‘technically brilliant and highly receptive to the wildly inventive Sierra’. Their recording of Kandinsky and the Clarinet Sonata (8559849) was also praised by critics: ‘The performances are splendid, the sound clear and bright’ (Gramophone); and ‘Sierra’s music is so good, I am confident of giving it a rave review before I’ve heard a single note of the new disc. Indeed, the present disc of chamber and piano works fully lived up to my expectations, so, voila! – the rave’ (Fanfare).