Those Donaueschinger recordings are usually very good.
Concertante Works Since 1972
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.
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.
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Yes definitely. There is so much to explore. Having a mix of composers almost always introduced me to new names as well as the ones that I had originally gone to the CD for.Those Donaueschinger recordings are usually very good.
Spotify has a bunch of them, including the one that charts the first 75 years of festivals. A wealth of contemporary music, and could be a functional syllabus for a 20th/21st century music course of study.Yes definitely. There is so much to explore. Having a mix of composers almost always introduced me to new names as well as the ones that I had originally gone to the CD for.
Meanwhile, here is another. This is Agata Zubel's Chamber Piano Concerto. It is played by Pierre Delignies on this
YouTube clip:
And this is Ivan Fedele's Air on Air, a work for bassethorn and ensemble played by Michele Marelli with the SWR Symphonieorchester conducted by Pascal Rophé.
Both works are available on a really wonderful CD. The Zubel on this CD is played by Ingfrid Breie Nyhus with the Cikada Ensemble conducted by Christian Eggen and the Fedele is the same performance as the clip:
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YouTube clip:
And this is Ivan Fedele's Air on Air, a work for bassethorn and ensemble played by Michele Marelli with the SWR Symphonieorchester conducted by Pascal Rophé.
Both works are available on a really wonderful CD. The Zubel on this CD is played by Ingfrid Breie Nyhus with the Cikada Ensemble conducted by Christian Eggen and the Fedele is the same performance as the clip:
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Percussion Concerto "Incantations"
2008
Percussionist: Colin Currie
Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds
The three-movement concerto is laid out in the tried and true fast-slow-fast formula, which plays into Currie's virtuosity in the outer movements. Rautavaara's opening gambit, a complex marimba line that stretches out as if to the horizon, eventually gives way to raucous passages for drums and cymbals. The heart of the work is the central "Espressivo," a calm oasis for vibraphone only where repeated chords get refracted over again in various keys. (more)
2008
Percussionist: Colin Currie
Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds
The three-movement concerto is laid out in the tried and true fast-slow-fast formula, which plays into Currie's virtuosity in the outer movements. Rautavaara's opening gambit, a complex marimba line that stretches out as if to the horizon, eventually gives way to raucous passages for drums and cymbals. The heart of the work is the central "Espressivo," a calm oasis for vibraphone only where repeated chords get refracted over again in various keys. (more)
Betsy Jolas : Histoires Vraies
2015
A concertante suite for piano trumpet and orchestra
These stories can be held true for at least two reasons : 1) they fulfill a strong wish to play together clearly expressed by two great living performers, whose repertoires have, so far, rarely brought them to associate 2) They demonstrate my first conscious attempt to work with the » sounds we try not to hear » as Abraham Mole called noises back in the 50s. Sounds that are here selected from my daily environment and either tamed as usual through stylization, or left quasi crude with their full disturbing potential.
Betsy Jolas, born in Paris in 1926, settled in the USA. in 1940, where she studied composition with Paul Boepple, piano with Helen Schnabel and organ with Carl Weinrich. After graduating from Bennington College, she returned to Paris in 1946 to continue her studies with Darius Milhaud, Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory. (Wise Music Classical)
2015
A concertante suite for piano trumpet and orchestra
These stories can be held true for at least two reasons : 1) they fulfill a strong wish to play together clearly expressed by two great living performers, whose repertoires have, so far, rarely brought them to associate 2) They demonstrate my first conscious attempt to work with the » sounds we try not to hear » as Abraham Mole called noises back in the 50s. Sounds that are here selected from my daily environment and either tamed as usual through stylization, or left quasi crude with their full disturbing potential.
Betsy Jolas, born in Paris in 1926, settled in the USA. in 1940, where she studied composition with Paul Boepple, piano with Helen Schnabel and organ with Carl Weinrich. After graduating from Bennington College, she returned to Paris in 1946 to continue her studies with Darius Milhaud, Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory. (Wise Music Classical)
Sofia Gubaidulina : Fachwerk
(2009)
Geir Draugsvoll, bayan
Anders Loguin, percussion
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra Strings diretta da Øyvind Gimse.
Throughout her career Sofia Gubaidulina has confided some of her profoundest musical thoughts to the bayan, the distinctively Russian form of the accordion – and so it is with the very recent Fachwerk for bayan, strings and percussion, receiving its world premiere recording here. Inspired by architectural styles of timber framing and the complex geometrical patterns that result from displaying rather than concealing the structural frameworks, this is a wise and magical work, Gubaidulina at her most shamanic. Her characteristically exploratory attitude to sound and texture here engenders a spellbindingly poetic fantasy. The bayan seems at one moment a seraphically disembodied church organ, at another a thinly keening rune-singer, at another a huffing, chuffing, growling predator sidling through the thickets of sound. (more)
(2009)
Geir Draugsvoll, bayan
Anders Loguin, percussion
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra Strings diretta da Øyvind Gimse.
Throughout her career Sofia Gubaidulina has confided some of her profoundest musical thoughts to the bayan, the distinctively Russian form of the accordion – and so it is with the very recent Fachwerk for bayan, strings and percussion, receiving its world premiere recording here. Inspired by architectural styles of timber framing and the complex geometrical patterns that result from displaying rather than concealing the structural frameworks, this is a wise and magical work, Gubaidulina at her most shamanic. Her characteristically exploratory attitude to sound and texture here engenders a spellbindingly poetic fantasy. The bayan seems at one moment a seraphically disembodied church organ, at another a thinly keening rune-singer, at another a huffing, chuffing, growling predator sidling through the thickets of sound. (more)
Joe Hisaishi - 'I'd Rather be a Shellfish' for Violin and Orchestra (2014)
Performed by New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra
Violin: Yasushi Toyoshima
Contractor: Joe Hisaishi
Violin: Yasushi Toyoshima
Contractor: Joe Hisaishi
Simon Cummings, the author of the excellent blog Five Against Four covers the Proms each year, and as usual highlights some new music well worth notice.
Here he discusses a new trumpet concerto by Qigang Chen, Joie éternelle
The first of this year’s Proms premières came from Chinese composer Qigang Chen, with a new trumpet concerto for Alison Balsom. Inspirationally, the title of the work, Joie éternelle, stems from an acknowledged act of nostalgia on Chen’s part, referencing a melody of the same name from the Kunqu operatic version of The Peony Pavilion, a work Chen heard in his youth. He describes the melody as “delicate and graceful, yet [it] also has an unyielding, instantly identifiable character […] Subsequent encounters with the tune as an adult have thus evoked childhood memories”. However, that title, Joie éternelle, gains additional resonance when one considers that Chen was the last composer ever to study with Olivier Messiaen (Chen’s activities have been split between China and France ever since), and Chen perhaps acknowledges something of this by remarking how the melody’s name has “a quasi-religious connotation”. The work was premièred by Balsom with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Long Yu, in Beijing at the start of July, and it was they who gave this first UK performance at the Proms. (more)
Qigang Chen - Joie éternelle
Here he discusses a new trumpet concerto by Qigang Chen, Joie éternelle
The first of this year’s Proms premières came from Chinese composer Qigang Chen, with a new trumpet concerto for Alison Balsom. Inspirationally, the title of the work, Joie éternelle, stems from an acknowledged act of nostalgia on Chen’s part, referencing a melody of the same name from the Kunqu operatic version of The Peony Pavilion, a work Chen heard in his youth. He describes the melody as “delicate and graceful, yet [it] also has an unyielding, instantly identifiable character […] Subsequent encounters with the tune as an adult have thus evoked childhood memories”. However, that title, Joie éternelle, gains additional resonance when one considers that Chen was the last composer ever to study with Olivier Messiaen (Chen’s activities have been split between China and France ever since), and Chen perhaps acknowledges something of this by remarking how the melody’s name has “a quasi-religious connotation”. The work was premièred by Balsom with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Long Yu, in Beijing at the start of July, and it was they who gave this first UK performance at the Proms. (more)
Qigang Chen - Joie éternelle
Marie Samuelsson - Violin Concerto "Bastet Solgudinnan" (2004)
Exceedingly pretty and passionate from a composer I had never heard about. Just listen with delight as melody fragments explode and fly by.
Exceedingly pretty and passionate from a composer I had never heard about. Just listen with delight as melody fragments explode and fly by.
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