ARNOLD Concerto for Two Violins and Strings ATTERBURG Suite
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Composer or Director: Peter Seabourne, Ståle Kleiberg, Kurt (Magnus) Atterberg, Malcolm Arnold
Genre:
Chamber
Magazine Review Date: 05/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 53
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SH091
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Aske |
Ståle Kleiberg, Composer
Agnes Langer, Violin Mainzer Virtuosi Ståle Kleiberg, Composer |
This is a song for you alone |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Irina Borissova, Violin Mainzer Virtuosi Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Suite for Violin, Viola and String Orchestra |
Kurt (Magnus) Atterberg, Composer
Agnes Langer, Violin Dmitry Khakhalin, Viola Kurt (Magnus) Atterberg, Composer Mainzer Virtuosi |
Concerto for Two Violins and Strings |
Malcolm Arnold, Composer
Agnes Langer, Violin Irina Borissova, Violin Mainzer Virtuosi Malcolm Arnold, Composer |
Author: Caroline Gill
Despite the almost symphonic quality of the orchestration of the pieces here, the intimacy of the actual ensemble is handled sensitively and with mature reciprocity – this is particularly evident in the second movement of Peter Seabourne’s two-movement concerto This is a song for you alone. Ultimately, though, this disc showcases two young violinists, Agnes Langer and Irina Borissova, and at no point on the disc is their talent for musical story-telling so evident as in the opening of the Arnold. They roll responsively with the music, allowing it to unfold as it wants to – one minute rough and uneven, the next smooth and conciliatory – within a strange conflation of styles simultaneously reminiscent of Peter Warlock and his frank, free-spirited Englishness, and, at times, music of the Italian Baroque.
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