Composer: Emil Tabakov
Orchestra: Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Emil Tabakov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0562
Release: 2020
Size: 812 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 2
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Allegro moderato
Symphony No. 6
03. I. Allegro agitato
04. II. Largo
05. III. Allegro
06. IV. Allegro
The music of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov (b. 1947) explores the darker side of the human spirit in epic scores as austere as they are powerful. The Second Symphony is a diptych where the wild, stamping, manic whirl of the second movement releases the store of energy pent up by the grief-stricken first. The four-movement Sixth Symphony is a tragic utterance in the monumental manner of the middle-period Shostakovich symphonies, bleak and gripping in equal measure.