Weyand Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford Abel - Orchestral Works - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

?Symphonic works by the long-forgotten Russian composer Vasily Kalinnikov

Danacord continues it's tribute to the Danish cellist Erling Blondal Bengtsson. For this third volume of recordings emanating from Danish Radio Bengtsson plays a selection of solo sonatas and is also heard collaborating with friends and relations in a diverse choice of chamber pieces, from Schumann to Thybo. By complete contrast there is also Bloch's mighty Schelomo, his Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and large orchestra. This 2-disc set offers a further feast of Bengtsson's resourcefulness and sterling musicianship.

The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to 'examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth' - a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. His works are often interrelated, not only by a certain sensitivity or a distinctive tone, but also by the recurrence of particular features that he reworks in different contexts. The present disc combines three orchestral works composed over a period of almost a quarter of a century. In Paysages avec figures absentes, played here by solo violinist Ilya Gringolts, the composer wished to find a new approach to writing for violin within an ensemble. Premièred a few months before this recording by the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, the Sechs Augeblicke for orchestra suggest a concentration or implosion of sound matter within musical fragments, as a sort of reference to Schubert. Finally, the guiding idea of Un long fracas somptueux de rapide céleste with solo percussionist Florent Jodelet is a short, powerful 'initial explosion' that recurs, like a punctuation mark, throughout the piece, more or less regularly, in different forms