Orchestra: Moscow Soloists
Composer: Dun Tan, Toru Takemitsu, Hikaru Hayashi
Audio CD
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (image+cue)
Label: Onyx Classics
Size: 308 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Concerto for String Orchestra & Pipa: I. Andante molto
02. Concerto for String Orchestra & Pipa: II. Allegro
03. Concerto for String Orchestra & Pipa: III. Adagio
04. Concerto for String Orchestra & Pipa: IV. Allegro vivace
05. Nostalghia for Solo Violin & String Orchestra
06. Music of Training and Rest (José Torres)
07. Funeral Music (Black Rain)
08. Waltz (Face of Another)
09. Concerto for Viola & Strings ‘Elegia’: I
10. Concerto for Viola & Strings ‘Elegia’: II
Kudos for Bashmet in his double role as soloist and conductor!
The cornerstone that distinguishes and separates both western music oriental conception, is the contemplative ecstasy.
Three distinguished composers enhance this extraordinary album. Tan Dun, with the world premiere of his Concerto for pipa, is of the three, the most closely related to the ancestral roots of being Japanese. Four movements outlined and defined this work, has fiercely nationalist.
Toru Takemitsu is the most representative and recognized worldwide for its contribution to the films of Kurosawa (Ran), Kobayashi (Kwaidan) or Teshigahara (The face of another). His work Nostalgia for violin is basically, a musical cell on which multiple collateral branches emerge. Three additional scores make up the rest of the album.
Finally, Hayashi’s Elegy for Viola is perhaps, the most approximates a state of meditative stillness, suspended tempo allows the soloist entering a cosmic introspection , the orchestra maintains accompanying dialogue and to draw like a trail of timbres and sound melodious raptures distinctly elegiac.
The Moscow Soloists and Yuri Bashmet do an admirable and tenacious effort to disseminate and raise awareness of the immense legacy of these three incredibly talented composers.
Do not forget to buy this album. Absolutely rewarding.