Composer: Corentin Boissier
Performer: Valentina Seferinova
Orchestra: Ukrainian Festival Orchestra
Conductor: John McLaughlin Williams
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0569
Release: 2021
Size: 659 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Glamour Concerto, Op. 7 (Version for Piano & Orchestra)
01. I. Glamour appassionato
02. II. Manhattan Waltz-Romance
03. III. Spanish Lovers in Brooklyn
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 18 “Appassionata”
04. I. Allegro impetuoso
05. II. Intermezzo. Andante espressivo
06. III. Finale. Allegro appassionato
Philip Marlowe Concerto, Op. 8
07. I. Allegro drammatico
08. II. Lento
09. III. Allegro feroce, tempo di toccata
The phrase “unashamed Romantic” might not have been coined for the French composer Corentin Boissier, born in the Paris suburbs in 1995, but it certainly fits him well. As the titles of his Glamour Concerto and Philip Marlowe Concerto suggest, he revels in the full-textured sound of 1940s and ’50s Hollywood, the golden age of Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto, Rota’s Legend of the Glass Mountain and other such high-calorie classics. The Second Piano Sonata, “Appassionata”, is no less Neo-Romantic, but has flecks of Russian colour, locating it downstream from Rachmaninov.