Composer and producer Jeremy Beck puts together an album of modern orchestrations and solo instruments on this alluring yet sophisticated collection. His Cello Concerto with the Sofia Session Orchestra and cellist Atanas Krasttev features gentle woodwinds as drapery on “ Relaxed” with some plunging strings on the emotive “Deliberate; With Longing”. Violinist Dora Dimitrova dances to the charismatic “Rhapsody” and Denitza Dimitrova’s harp forms ebullient impression for “Song Of The Sky”. Voices of Emily Albrink/sop, Robert Frankenberry/ten and Chad Sloan/bar team with guitarist Seth Thomas for a five part “Opera Noir” that includes a Wagnerian “The Highway On The Left”, Ominous “The Highway On The Right” and a Broadway-ish “The Highway In The Middle”. Ambitious, and alluringly accessible