Composer: Brett Dean
Performer: Lawrence Power, Emma Bell, Elsa Dreisig, Alban Gerhardt, Bartosz Glowacki
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Enrique Mazzola, Hannu Lintu, Edward Gardner, Karina Canellakis, Vladimir Jurowski
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: LPO
Catalogue: LPO-0130
Release: 2024
Size: 2.59 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Amphitheatre (scene for orchestra)
Viola Concerto
02. Fragment
03. Pursuit
04. Veiled and Mysterious
In spe contra spem, Part One
05. Full grievous is the way
06. In spe contra spem
07. We Princes are set on stages
08. Were we but as two milkmaids
09. La fin de mon long et ennuyeux pèlerinage
In spe contra spem, Part Two
10. Interlude
11. I am not so ignorant, gentlemen
12. Yet I find no great cause
13. Accuse me not of presumption
CD 02
Cello Concerto
01. Extremely intimate, yet flowing and playful
02. Slow, dreamy, unhurried
03. Allegro agitato sempre
04. Fast, rhythmic, relentless
05. Slow, spacious, and still
3 Memorials
06. Dispersal
07. Ceremonial
08. Komarov’s Fall
09. Notturno inquieto
The Players (for accordion and orchestra)
10. Prelude
11. Look, look! Look where my abridgement comes!
12. Fanfare. The players arrive.
13. Pantomime
14. Postlude
Brett Dean was the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence from 2020-2023; this release brings together seven works recorded live in concert during his tenure. Together with five leading conductors and five outstanding soloists, the LPO skilfully navigates the diverse facets of Dean’s orchestral writing, from the vivid soundscapes and virtuosity of the Viola and Cello Concertos, to the drama of In spe contra spem – quoting letters and speeches by Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots – and the theatrical accordion work The Players, which revisits scenes from Dean’s award-winning 2017 opera Hamlet.