Lupu Bonamy Liepaja Symphony Orchestra Mann - Violin Discoveries - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The raw intensity of emotions in works like InchAretusaInch, InchSatya IInch, and InchIl faudrait d'abord désespérerInch, where each note unfolds with hypnotic allure, envelops the listener in a world of transcendental states. Dive into the depths of Camus' InchThe StrangerInch with InchPour triumpher du soleilInch and InchÀ chaque épée de lumièreInch - Dinescu's masterful use of sound effects challenges your comfort zone, evoking moments of scorching desperation and futile blankness, a testament to the composer's acute sensitivity. InchWorking with Violeta Dinescu in preparation for this recording opened, for me, a new music portal I discovered sounds I never knew my violin possessedInch - Irina Muresanu; Violinist Irina Muresanu's performance of Dinescu's work is astonishing, the combination of her technique and Violeta Dinescu's imagination is so contemporary, visceral and intellectually thrilling as to create the feeling that we are hearing an entirely new instrument. This is solo work at it's best, derived from wholly successful collaboration.

Derek Scott, born 1950, Birmingham, has an international reputation as a leading historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment but he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and a profoundly felt and natural response to his (often Celtic) subject matter. These works reveal a master craftsman and natural tunesmith, who manages to unite good humor, unerring technique and deep feeling, in music of immediate appeal. Scott's Airs and Dances is a real rarity a concerto for the Highland bagpipe and orchestra (he plays the instrument himself), a memorable mix of his own melodies and pipe tunes collected on the Isle of Skye, off the West Coast of Scotland.

The Russian-born Mischa Spoliansky (1898-1985) became one of the major names in cabaret in 1920s Berlin and then, as a refugee from Nazi Germany, in London, he became one of the best-known composers of film scores. He also wrote a handful of orchestral works, which have remained unknown until now. His Boogie is a witty, tongue-in-cheek piece of orchestral jazz, and the Overture to My Husband and I, one of his stage shows, has a Mozartian sparkle and wit. But it is his only Symphony, an epic statement composed over a period of nearly three decades, that constitutes his real achievement as an orchestral composer - the fourth of it's five movements apparently offering Spoliansky's own musical commentary on the Holocaust.