Roman Mints plays Langer, Mozetich and Schnittke- Mikel Toms, conductor

ID: QTZ2052 (EAN: 880040205227)  | 1 CD | DDD
Released in: 2006

LABEL:

Quartz Records

Subcollection:

String instruments

Composers:

SCHNITTKE, Alfred

Interprets:

BLAUMANE, Kristine (cello) | MINTS, Roman (violin) | RYSANOV, Maxim (viola)

Ensembles:

New Prague Sinfonia | West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductors:

TOMS, Mikel

Other info:

Affairs of the Heart
Concerto for violin and string orchestra
Marjan Mozetich
Platch
for violin and string orchestra
Elena Langer
Concerto for Three
for violin, viola, cello and chamber orchestra
Alfred Schnittke
BONUS TRACK (Hard copy CD only - not download)
Sometimes It Rains
for violin and electronics
Ed Bennett

Roman Mints, violin
Maxim Rysanov, viola
Kristine Blaumane, cello
New Prague Sinfonia
West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikel Toms, conductor

The Russian violinist Roman Mints demonstrates a huge talent in this stimulating disc of contemporary works. The youngest composer represented here is Elena Langer, born in Moscow in 1974. Her two-movement Platch is an essay in invented folklore… The emotive demands of the solo part require Mints's technique to scale vertiginous heights: as a showpiece of hysterical lament - issuing at last in an old Yiddish lullaby - the piece succeeds admirably.
***** May 2007 BBC Music Magazine