Tigran Mansurian: Quasi Parlando

Współczesna Muzyka Klasyczna
premiera polska: 2014-03-25
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Editor's Info:
“Quasi Parlando” is an important addition to ECM’s documentation of the work of Tigran Mansurian, an often breathtaking account of highly original contemporary chamber orchestra music. Issued in the wake of his 75th birthday, the album opens with the Armenian composer’s fiercely-concentrated Double Concerto, and proceeds to new music performed by its dedicatees: the lyrical Romance, dedicated to Moldavian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and the intensely expressive Quasi Parlando, dedicated to German cellist Anja Lechner. Both are world premiere recordings, as is the Concerto No 2, subtitled Four Serious Songs, which concludes the programme. Throughout, the soloists deliver committed performances, as does the Amsterdam Sinfonietta under the direction of Candida Thompson.

In the liner notes, Wolfgang Sandner describes title piece Quasi Parlando, composed in 2012, as one of the works which best exemplify Mansurian’s aesthetics of reduction: “Every note is exactly where it belongs. Compositional feeling seems at one with the innate potential of the sounds. Yet we are amazed to hear how the cello’s rhetorical figures congeal into an effective and expressive art that transcends the conceptualisations of speech.” The Romance, composed a year earlier, initially retains the four-bar periods of a simple but moving folk song until the strings enter a dialogue with the solo violin, whereupon a transformation takes place...

utwory:
1. Double Concerto for violin, violincello and string Orchestra - I Largo concentrando 13:09
2. Double Concerto for violin, violincello and string Orchestra - II Largo Sostenuto 09:37
3. Romance 09:24
4. Quasi parlando 08:00
5. Serious Songs - I Andante con moto 06:20

Serious Songs - II Andante mosso, agitato 07:43
7. Serious Songs - III Allegro vivace 01:08
8. Serious Songs - IV Con moto, molto semplice 07:10

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