Composer: Arnold Rosner
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Nick Palmer
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0710
Release: 2024
Size: 1.47 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Variations on a Theme by Frank Martin
01. Scherzo for Orchestra, Op. 29a
Concerto Grosso No. 2
02. I. Lento. Allegro
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Allegro molto
A Mylai Elegy
05. Theme
06. Var. 1, Grazioso
07. Var. 2, Adagio
08. Var. 3, Allegro
09. Var. 4, Adagio
10. Var. 5, Allegro
11. Scherzo
12. Canzona Secundi Toni
The musical language of the New York-based Arnold Rosner (1945–2013) clothes the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque polyphony in rich Romantic colours, producing a style that is instantly recognisable and immediately appealing. This fourth Toccata Classics album of his orchestral music opens with an engaging and energetic early Scherzo and a Concerto Grosso that has something of the dignified reserve of the Swiss composer Frank Martin, whom Rosner much admired – as the broadly expressive Variations on a Theme by Frank Martin go on to show. Rosner’s A Mylai Elegy, a symphonic poem inspired by a massacre of civilians in Vietnam, has few equals in the orchestral repertoire: it veers from profound sadness to wild, freewheeling anger – protest music at its grandest and most passionate.