[SanAntone]

This thread is following a theme I've used for other forms of works. This one covers concertos or any work for solo instrument and ensemble, which would be larger than 15 instruments. These kinds of works are usually referred to as "concertante" works.

Double and triple concertos are also acceptable, but no concertos for orchestra.

This thread is for posting YouTube clips of the works. You can offer your commentary, or not, but you must provide text showing composer, title, date of composition, and performers when available.

Thanks for participating.

 

[SanAntone]

My first work is

Édith Canat de Chizy - Exultet (1995)
for violin and orchestra
Laurent Korcia, violin
Philharmonie de Lorraine/Pascal Rophé, conductor

 

[Art Rock]

Magnus Lindberg - Clarinet Concerto (2002)

This Clarinet Concerto is a composition by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. It was written for the Finnish clarinetist Kari Kriikku. The concerto is composed in a single movement divided into five sections. One critic called it "shiny, sophisticated, nostalgic cultural artifact, indubitably contemporary in language yet sensuously easy (tuneful, even) on the ear." The piece is eprformed by Kari Kriikku and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo, and available on an Ondine CD.

 

[SanAntone]

Lindberg is certainly a major contemporary composer. His music strikes me as accessible while retaining qualities that elevate it above the superficial.

 

[SanAntone]

I couldn't find a YT clip for this work, but wanted to post it anyway, from Spotify.

Erkki-Sven Tüür | Ardor, Concerto for marimba and orchestra (2001)

I am never sure about posting these Spotify links and I regret the marketing aspect.

 

[Art Rock]

Unsuk Chin - Sheng concerto "Šu" (2009)

Šu by South Korean composer Unsuk Chin is a concerto for Sheng and orchestra, the only one I know for that Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes. The work goes far beyond novelty value, and is to my taste one of the best concertos of the century so far. The title of Su comes from an ancient Egyptian symbol for air. The recording is by Wei Wu and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chung, available on a Deutsche Grammophon CD.

 

[justekaia]

Nunc fluens, nunc stans by Lithuanian star Zibuokle Martinaityte. The piece is for percussion and chamber orchestra. Giunter is the percussionist and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra is led by Variakojis, a frequent collaborator of the composer.The piece was composed in 2020 and means: the now that passes, the now that remains. I think it is a feeling we all had during the bad Covid days, the feeling that time stood still and that we were prisoners in our own environment.

 

[allaroundmusicenthusiast]

posted just under an hour ago on YT, Haas' 2nd Violin Concerto. Haven't listened to it yet, but I bet I'll like it

These are the performers:
Miranda Cuckson, violin Tonkünstler-Orchester Baldur Brönnimann, conductor. Never heard of any of them really

 

[justekaia]

posted just under an hour ago on YT, Haas' 2nd Violin Concerto. Haven't listened to it yet, but I bet I'll like it

These are the performers:
Miranda Cuckson, violin Tonkünstler-Orchester Baldur Brönnimann, conductor. Never heard of any of them really

You really should pay attention to the performers. Miranda is one of the most eminent violinists alive and although she focuses on contemporary, she does not neglect traditional composers. She has 11 albums and innumerable concerts to her credit. Haas has dedicated the beautiful second concerto to her and she has closely collaborated with the composer on this project. She plays the Guadagnini previously owned by the 19 th century composer Bazzini.
Brönnimann is a Swiss conductor who has championed contemporary in Columbia, Portugal, Germany, Swizerland and so many other places. He focuses on the best: Birtwistle, Ades, Ligeti, Haas, Saariaho and many others.
Performers like these two draw your attention to young interesting composers and cooperate with mature masters.

 

[SanAntone]

Veli Kujala | Transformations, for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Orchestra (2020)

Saxophone Quartet Aava, The Guards Band of Finland and conductor József Hárs

 

[tortkis]

Dai Fujikura: Tuba Concerto for Tuba and Wind Orchestra (2016/2017)
Øystein Baadsvik (Tuba); Geigeki Wind Orchestra Academy; TOKYO KOSEI WIND ORCHESTRA; Shizuo Z Kuwahara (conductor)

 

[SanAntone]

Dai Fujikura: Tuba Concerto for Tuba and Wind Orchestra (2016/2017)
Øystein Baadsvik (Tuba); Geigeki Wind Orchestra Academy; TOKYO KOSEI WIND ORCHESTRA; Shizuo Z Kuwahara (conductor)

Fantastic work, nice harmonies and textures. Tuba soloist is remarkable.

 

[SanAntone]

Thomas Adès - Märchentänze, for violin and orchestra (2021)

Ondine press release for album

In the Autumn of 2021, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra together with its new chief conductor, Nicholas Collon, arranged a Thomas Adès festival in Helsinki. One of the highlights of the festival’s program was the world première of Märchentänze in its version for violin and orchestra performed by violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

Simon Cummings of 5:4 did not have much good to say about the work, but I enjoyed what I heard of it.

Programme note
I composed these four Märchentänze (“dances from fairytale”) in 2020, originally for violin and piano, then a year later made this orchestral version. The first movement is a fantasy on the folk song Two Magicians, immortalised by Steeleye Span, about the immemorial generative dance of the sexes. A hushed movement follows, the chant-like tune presented as a round. The third movement, A Skylark for Jane, is an outpouring of birdsong, each individual orchestra member freely echoing the soloist to create an “exaltation” of skylarks. The final dance begins with an energetic elfin theme, and grows into a writhing dance. Many themes grapple, twining around each other like otters, towards a decisive conclusion.

—Thomas Adès

 

[Enthusiast]

Jonathon Harvey's Bird Concerto with Pianosong (2003). This performance by Ensemble X conducted by Weiss but there is a perfectly good recording (Nagano, London Sinfonietta, Atherton).

 

[Enthusiast]

Harrison Birtwistle - The Cry of Anubis (1994). Owen Slade, Halle, Wigglesworth.

Harrison Birtwistle - Antiphonies (1992) - Joanna MacGregor, Gielen

George Benjamin - Duet for Piano and Orchestra - Aimard

 

[SanAntone]

Thanks for participating.

This thread is for posting YouTube clips of the works. You can offer your commentary, or not, but you must provide text showing composer, title, date of composition, and performers when available.

I make this request because it is not unusual for YouTube clips to be deleted at the source. Without any textual description of the video, we have no way of knowing what composer or work you posted.

 

[SanAntone]

Viet Cuong: Re(new)al Concerto for Percussion Quartet (2019)
featuring Sandbox Percussion

FIRST OF ALL, CONGRATULATIONS ON A WONDERFUL PIECE! HOW DID YOU CONCEIVE OF THE IDEA FOR THIS CONCERTO, AND WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO EMBARK ON THIS PROJECT?

Thanks so much! Sandbox and I had been wanting to collaborate on some sort of concerto years before this project came about, but, as one can imagine, a concerto coming to fruition often involves a bit of serendipity. That moment came one day when the Albany Symphony contacted me and asked if I would be interested in writing a piece for them. Always imaginative with their programming, they had two ideas for it: 1) It could be inspired by renewable energy, and 2) it could be some sort of collaboration between their Dogs of Desire ensemble and an outside group. Since Sandbox and I believe in renewable energy initiatives, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to create the concerto we had been dreaming of. (I care if you listen)

 

[Enthusiast]

Thanks for participating.

This thread is for posting YouTube clips of the works. You can offer your commentary, or not, but you must provide text showing composer, title, date of composition, and performers when available.

I make this request because it is not unusual for YouTube clips to be deleted at the source. Without any textual description of the video, we have no way of knowing what composer or work you posted.

Fair enough. I'll edit my posts.

 

[Vasks]

Aaron Jay Kernis - Air for Cello and Orchestra (2000) Truls Mork, cellist

 

[Art Rock]

Toru Takemitsu - From Me Flows What You Call Time

From Me Flows What You Call Time is a concerto for 5 percussionists and orchestra from 1990. The title is taken from a poem by the Japanese poet Makoto Ooka, titled “Clear Blue Water”. It's a beautiful and evocative piece that deserved to be better known than it is. The version in the video is by percussion group Nexus and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra under Carl St. Clair, available on a Sony CD.