Stuart Mac Rae - Violin Concerto

ID: NMCD115 (EAN: 5023363011525)  | 1 CD | DDD
Ausgefolgt: 2006

LABEL:

NMC

Subkolektion:

Violin

Komponisten:

MacRAE, Stuart

Interpreten:

LIXENBERG, Loré (mezzo-soprano) | TETZLAFF, Christian (violin)

Ensembles:

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Dirigenten:

MÄLKKI, Susanna | VOLKOV, Ilan

Andere Infos:

Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, commissioned for the 2001 BBC Proms, is performed here by soloist Christian Tetzlaff with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Ilan Volkov; it is coupled with Stirling Choruses, written for the brass section of the BBC SSO, which portrays the “dark and foreboding” Stirling Castle.

These are works are joined by Motus, a processional for 6 instruments; and Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino, for voice and instrumental ensemble - based on a gruesome section of Dante’s Inferno, and featuring mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg.

1-4 - Christian Tetzlaff violin/ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor
5-6 - Loré Lixenberg mezzo-soprano/ BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
7 - BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
8 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor

BBC Music Magazine, September 2006Andrew Clements
The premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto at the 2001 Proms cemented his reputation and transformed him at the age of 25 from a hugely promising talent into a composer of real stature and maturity. Christian Tetzlaff is one of a number of violinists to have taken the Concerto into their repertory, and his performance on this disc is dazzling. He takes every technical challenge in his stride, and perfectly articulates both the fragile, constantly changing relationship between the soloist and the orchestra and MacRae's intriguing four-movement plan, which reverses concerto convention and sites its emotional centre of gravity on the fiercely eloquent finale.
If nothing else on this disc has quite the cumulative power of the Concerto, all three other pieces share its formal lucidity and capacity for vivid musical image-making. Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino conjures up an especially gruesome episode in Dante's Inferno, underpinning the expressionist writing for the mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg with dark, slithering instrumental lines, while in Motus (2003) the sextet writing is a fluid hybrid between soloistic and ensemble textures, and Stirling Choruses sets two groups of brass instruments in opposition to generate abrasive, Xenakis-like outbursts; each sound world is distinct and perfectly realised.
PERFORMANCE *****SOUND ****