More Rivers is a CD of piano music by Frank Horvat played by Christina Petrowska Quilico.  It’s a sort of sequel to Rivers a record of music by Ann Southam, released on Centrediscs in 2005.  It’s a set of seven pieces of various lengths.  “More Rvers 1 – for Ann” is the last piece on the album but it’s the longest piece of the set and sets up in various ways the others.  The music is a kind of looping minimalism but with quite a lot of harmonic complexity.  Different rhythms and speeds are encountered.  As Frank says in the notes “some rivers are long, some are short, some have rapids, and some have calm water”.  But all but the most benighted rivers flow and these pieces evoke natural streams; clean, pure and life giving.  Played with great virtuosity, discipline and control by Christina it’s a very pleasant way to spend 65 minutes.

The recording was made at Imagine Sound Studios in Toronto in 2024 and it sounds vey natural.  It’s a digital only release available as MP3 or FLAC in 44.1kHz/16bit and 44.1kHz/24 bit resolutions.  I listened to the high res version.  There’s no booklet but as usual with Navona there is all the information one might want at the album webpage.

Catalogue information: Navona Records NV6889