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Philip Glass - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Gidon Kremer, Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnányi
Ned Rorem - Violin Concerto (1984)
Gidon Kremer, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein - Serenade (1954) after Plato's "Symposium"
Gidon Kremer, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Glass, Rorem, Bernstein ... Three personal statements
Three American composers, three violin concertos but three different contemporary musical expressions are united in this disc. In real life the paths of Bernstein, Rorem and Glass crossed repeatedly. For all three, New York has been the focal point: Rorem and Glass also acquired their compositional craft at the Juilliard School; Leonard Bernstein celebrated his greatest triumphs on Broadway. But their musical aesthetic could hardly be more diverse. Ned Rorem composes "songs without words" which are notable for their highly pictorial and visionary musical language; Leonard Bernstein's stormily passionate Serenade is really a little music drama and Philip Glass's has fused minimalism and orientalism to create shimmering, iridescent sound colours.
Unlike either Bernstein's or Rorem's, Glass's Violin Concerto falls into the traditional three-movement structure. The original concept was to compose a piece in five short movements which ultimately became long first and second movements. "The material finds a voice of its own," conceded Glass, revealing that the new structure was really "an accident".
As in his operas, the Violin Concerto is scored for an orchestra of conventional size and configuration. "I like the normal orchestra" Glass commented at the time of the première, given on 5 April 1987 at Carnegie Hall, New York. "I have an alternative electronic medium, which is my ensemble. By writing for both there's a balance in my activities."
For the first time he chose the classical concerto form in a composition. Glass conceived this form to be "more theatrical and more personal" than pure orchestral music: "This piece explores what an orchestra can do for me. In it, I'm more interested in my own sound than in the capability of particular orchestral instruments. It is tailored to my musical needs."
Schubert - Solo Piano Works
Sonata in E Major for Piano [unfinished] D. 157 (1815)
Sonata in G Major for Piano D. 894 (1826)
Der Müller und der Bach [D. 795/19] S. 565 (arr. Franz Liszt)
Arcadi Volodos
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