Heribert Beissel - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor Op. 11 Fantasy on - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Carta / Nuova Orchestra Pedrollo / Santo - Dodici Romanze Poesie Dickinso [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/07/2019

In these works for guitar, George Kontogiorgos explores melodic fragments from the ballades he wrote in his youth and uses them in a classical setting. These pieces are mostly tonal and deeply communicative - Sea Vespers evokes lazy days by the sea, while the dance-like Cansonata is a songful duo for guitar and cello. Kaleidoscope often refers to the musical style of the 1960s and1970s when the guitar was the dominant instrument in pop and rock music, whereas Elegy1980 and Emotions draw out darker and more dramatic musical landscapes. Having worked closely with Kontogiorgos, these performances by Pavlos Kanellakis are both idiomatic and definitive.

Selim Palmgren, a student of Busoni, was one of the leading Nordic composers during the first decades of the 20th century. His wide-ranging music for piano was performed and recorded by some of the greatest artists of the day. This third volume in the first complete cycle of Palmgren's piano music on disc includes a varied cross-section of works written over a 50-year period. It includes the youthful Lyriskt intermezzo, Op. 8, romantic miniatures of great charm - as well as one of his greatest achievements, the atmospheric suite Kevät ('Spring'), in which impressionist elements fuse with rich Finnish folk melody.