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1-8 Oculus:
9-11 Three Fantasy Pieces:
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Oculus: Kurt Rohde From The Gramophone: Energetic, impeccable, beautifully recorded accounts of 'brilliant' music. These three pieces, each of them scored for strings, offer a stunning display of a formidable compositional imagination. Kurt Rohde is young, but no slave to fashion. You could even say there's something charmingly old-fashioned about his language, which share an anxious and sinuous ambiguity of harmony with Berg, Nicholas Maw, Frank Martin and Britten in his more exploratory vein. Rohde's is a rare muse in that the idiom is original but not prickly or pretentious, the vocabulary not obviously tonal yet at the same time consistently anchored. Read More... | ||||||||
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Chamber Symphony for Strings, Opus 110a:
Symphony for Strings,
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Written With The Heart's Blood The New Century Chamber Orchestra, Stuart Canin Music Director Best Small Ensemble Performance. A superb accomplishment! The poet Carl Sandburg once said that Shostakovich's music is music "written with the heart's blood", and it was this feeling that enabled my colleagues and me in the New Century Chamber Orchestra to maintain the passionate energy needed to record these magnificent works. The power of Shostakovich's music is evidenced by the fact that its composer used it as a weapon in the fight against Hitler: witness the 7th [Leningrad] Symphony, written in 1942, which became the worldwide symbol of resistance against Nazism. The dedication of the Eighth String Quartet "to the memory of the victims of fascism and war" was a constant reminder to us musicians of how visceral Shostakovich's music is; and yet the recurring motifs of hope and renewal show that Shostakovich was ever a human being, always hopeful of an end to dark times.
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Concerto for strings op.33 (Ginastera)
Three argentine suites (Williams)
Segunda suite argentina
Tercera suite argentina
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Echoes of Argentina This release from d'Note Classics features the award winning, Grammy nominated New Century Chamber Orchestra with their third compact disc, Echoes of Argentina, combining the music of Argentine composers Alberto Williams and Alberto Ginastera. Echoes of Argentina features the world's first recordings of music by Alberto Williams, the prolific South American composer for whom the Music Conservatory in Buenos Aires is named. "I'm thrilled with our CD of South American works," says Stuart Canin. "This wonderful combination of pieces-Ginastera's Concerto for Strings is very powerful, at times even ferocious, and Williams' three Argentine Suites for Strings are lovely collections of dance melodies-is sure to delight all listeners." "If you ever get a chance to hear the New Century Chamber Orchestra, don't miss it."
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Etudes for string orchestra
Concerto for violin and orchestra
Maria triptychon
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The Music of Frank Martin Stuart Canin, violin; Sara Ganz, soprano; New Century Chamber Orchestra; Berkeley Symphony Orchestra A first-rate performance! Martin composed the Etudes for String Orchestra in 1955-56. The work was commissioned by Paul Sacher for the Basel Chamber Orchestra, and premiered on November 23, 1956. This striking work consists of a sharply profiled slow overture, followed by four etudes, each of which treats an important aspect of string performance. Composed in 1950-51, Martin's Violin Concerto was first performed in the spring of 1952, when Joseph Szigeti played it with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Ernest Ansermet. The work assumes the traditoinal three-movement concerto form. The creation of Maria Triptychon evolved through the friendship Martin shared with the soprano Irmgard Seefried and her husband, the violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan. The work is a setting of three canticles: the Ave Maria, the Magnificat in Martin Luther's German translation, and the Stabat Mater. You can practically smell the rosin and see it powdering off the bow. |
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