FAGERLUND Violin Concerto. Ignite
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Composer or Director: Sebastian Fagerlund
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: BIS
Magazine Review Date: 05/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 56
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: BIS2093
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 'Darkness in Light' |
Sebastian Fagerlund, Composer
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu, Conductor Pekka Kuusisto, Violin Sebastian Fagerlund, Composer |
Ignite |
Sebastian Fagerlund, Composer
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu, Conductor Sebastian Fagerlund, Composer |
Author: Guy Rickards
The Violin Concerto Darkness in Light (2012) was composed for and dedicated to Pekka Kuusisto, who gives a dazzlingly virtuoso account of it here. The three movements, as might be inferred from the title (derived from the writing of Haruki Murakami), explore and try to reconcile mutually exclusive elements, heard at the outset in the opposition of the dark writing for bass clarinets, timpani and tuba with the solo violin and supporting group of upper winds and bright percussion. Kuusisto navigates his way brilliantly through the gamut of effects including multiple-stopping, microtones, harmonics et al, all expressed within a broadly legato flow; even the more angular and hostile episodes serve to illuminate the music’s broader context.
Ignite (2010) is similarly a work of dark and light, its structure dominated by spirals, the music calming to near stasis as it approaches the centre before being flung out again into the turbulent finale. It is an invigorating and virtuosically scored symphonic poem and finds Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra fully on their mettle. Superb sound, as always from the black label.
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