Composer: Arnold Rosner
Performer: Christopher Burchett
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Nick Palmer
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0465
Release: 2018
Size: 1.25 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
5 Ko-ans, Op. 65
01. No. 1. Music of Changes
02. No. 2. Ricercare
03. No. 3. Ostinato
04. No. 4. Music of Stillness
05. No. 5. Isorhythmic Motet
06. Unraveling Dances, Op. 122
07. Parable of the Law, Op. 97
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 second Toccata Classics album of his orchestral music contrasts the high-spirited Unraveling Dances – a rhapsody with more than a nod to Ravel’s Bolero – with the powerful symphonic suite Five Ko-ans for Orchestra and Rosner’s dramatic, dark, hieratic setting of Kafka’s The Parable of the Law for baritone and orchestra.