Kristjan Randalu - Enter Denter - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Alessandra Gentile with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christian Schmitt, a monographic album dedicatedto W.A. Mozart with the two Concertos for piano and orchestra no. 19 and no. 9. The CD opens with the Concerto forpiano and orchestra no. 19 KV 459, completed in Vienna in 1784 and performed in 1790 by Mozart himself in Frankfurton the occasion of the celebrations for the coronation of Leopold II (and for this reason called the second CoronationConcerto) and published posthumously in 1800. A piece that appears particularly lively, not only for the enriched instrumentationof the wind instruments, but also and above all for the brilliant indications of meter and tempo and for the incrediblerichness of the writing.The Concerto no. 19 KV 459 is followed in the tracklist by a largescalework, the Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 9KV 271, also in three movements, composed in Salzburg between 1776 and 1777, a piece considered among the milestonesof Mozart's vast repertoire. The recorded program thus allows us to rediscover with new sophistication two cornerstonesof Salzburg's genius, entrusted to the interpretation of Alessandra Gentile and Christian Schmitt conductingthe Perugia Chamber Orchestra, a group that debuted in 2013 and collaborates regularly with important masters, soloistsand choral groups.Inch

Kristjan Randalu reimagines Schubert's Winterreise with a unique blend of classical and jazz influences. Collaborating with Estonian-American bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann, the duo creates a distinct sound through the combination of piano and bassoon, offering a completely new sonic landscape for Schubert's work. This innovative reinterpretation brings a dynamic and expressive twist to the original, blending emotion and spontaneity in a fascinating way.

Robert Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (1840), is widely considered the composer's most celebrated cycle of Lieder and, along with Franz Schubert's marginally earlier cycles Die Schone Mullerin (1823) and Winterreise (1828), constitutes part of the central core of the genre in musical literature. Based on German poet Heinrich Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo, a 65-poems spanning collection first published in 1823, Dichterliebe in a way even represents the epitome of romantic poetry set to music. Both Heine and Schumann were progressive spirits who bent genres and rewrote the rules of their crafts. Therefore, it only seems appropriate that the Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu, a forward-thinking mind in today's contemporary music world, would do his part in bending genres by tackling this song cycle and updating it's structure and vocabulary with the language of the 21st Century.