Composer: Boris Papandopulo
Performer: Michael Martin Kofler, Jörg Halubek, Miljenko Turk
Orchestra: Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Conductor: Timo Handschuh
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 7779412
Release: 2018
Size: 319 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piccolo Concerto
01. I. Predigra
02. II. Romanca
03. III. Igra
Harpsichord Concerto
04. I. Toccata
05. II. Aria
06. III. Rondeau
5 Orchestral Songs
07. No. 1, Totensonntag 1920
08. No. 2, Rock’n Roll
09. No. 3, Judenliedchen
10. No. 4, Lied der Granaten
11. No. 5, Sing in den Wind
Boris Papandopulo: his name sounds Greek, and yet he has to be regarded as the most important Croatian composer of the twentieth century. cpo’s third release featuring this uncommonly versatile composer presents his Concertos for Piccolo and Harpsichord. As in many of his concertos for solo instruments and orchestra, here too Papandopulo draws on Baroque sources in his Harpsichord Concerto. The three characteristic movements follow the model fast-slow-fast in their sequence. In the introductory cantata the composer incorporates dodecaphonic features into the musical structure in a most highly individual and original manner in order then to blend them with compositional-technical elements of the Baroque. He employed the piccolo in many ways his works. It usually enabled him to evoke nature through musical means – the country idyll, the sounds of shepherd’s pipes and birdcalls, and the stylized folk dance. Such a sunny, idyllic and Arcadian atmosphere also radiates throughout the Prelude with its stylized birdsong forming the beginning of the Little Concerto. His orchestral songs round off the CD.