Kristina Blaumane Lithuanian - Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the composer Dobrinka Tabakova, who was born in Bulgaria in 1980, raised from a young age in London, and is now a British citizen. This remarkable recording of her orchestral and chamber compositions for strings is richly melodic, texturally sensuous, and often emotionally radiant. rr

The disc features Tabakova's Concerto for Cello & Strings and the Rameau-channeling Suite in Old Style for viola and chamber orchestra - both performed by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra - as well as three chamber works: the string trio Insight, the string septet Such Different Paths and a trio for violin, accordion and double-bass, Frozen River Flows.

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The performers include star violinist Janine Jansen, leading the septet heard in Such Different Paths, and several of Tabakova's former conservatory colleagues from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama: violinist Roman Mints, violist and conductor Maxim Rysanov, and Kristina Blaumane, principal cellist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Tabakova's music has a particularly 21st-century feel for its broad palette - its free mix of tonality and modality, of folk-music influence and the example of past masters. In it there resides the new and the familiar, or rather the familiar within the new, and vice versa; there are the spirits of East and West coursing through the pieces, usually hand in hand; and just as the composer's technical virtuosity is apparent, she displays a gift for direct communication that can be heard in virtually every measure.

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Personnel: Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Maxim Rysanov (viola, conductor), Kristina Blaumane, Torleif Thedxe9en, Boris Andrianov (cello), Roman Mints, Janine Jansen, Julia-Maria Kretz (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Raimondas Sviackevicius (accordion), Donatas Bagurskas, Stacey Watton (double bass), Vaiva Eidukaityte-Storastiene (harpsichord)

Insight

Concerto for Cello and Strings, I. (Turbulent, tense)

II. (Longing)

III. (Radiant)

Frozen River Flows

Suite in Old Style, Prelude: Fanfare from the Balconies, I. Through mirrored corridors

II. The Rose garden, by moonlight

III. Riddle of the barrel-organ player / Postlude: Hunting and Finale

Such different paths

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 28947648260

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