Composer: Johannes Brahms, Maddalena Casulana, Brett Dean, Steve Elcock, Andrew Ford, Robin Holloway, Mihkel Kerem, Jon Lord, John Pickard, Poul Ruders, Ragnar Søderlind
Orchestra: Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Mann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0333
Release: 2016
Size: 963 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Brahms: Gesänge, Op. 43 Nos. 1-4
01. No. 1. Von ewiger Liebe (arr. R. Soderlind for string orchestra)
02. Holloway: Music for Yodit
03. Ruders: Lullaby for Yodit
04. Kerem: A Farewell to Yodit
05. Ford: Sleep
06. Elcock: Song for Yodit, Op. 23
07. Dean: Angels’ Wings (Music for Yodit)
08. Lord: Zarabanda Solitaria (arr. P. Mann for string orchestra)
09. Pickard: …forbidding mourning…
Søderlind: 15 Variations on a Norwegian Folktune, Op. 120 “Å, den svalande vind”
10. Introduction
11. Tema
12. Variation 1
13. Variation 2
14. Variation 3
15. Variation 4
16. Variation 5
17. Variation 6
18. Variation 7
19. Variation 8
20. Variation 9
21. Variation 10
22. Variation 11
23. Variation 12
24. Variation 13
25. Variation 14
26. Variation 15
27. Tema
28. Casulana: Il vostro dispartir (arr. C. Matthews for string orchestra)
When in late 2014 Yodit Tekle was diagnosed with stomach cancer, her partner, Martin Anderson, who runs Toccata Classics, asked a couple of composer friends to write some music to bring her comfort in her illness. As her life slipped away, he had the idea that she could be remembered in music and so he began to commission other pieces for string orchestra in her memory. To his surprise, almost everyone he asked generously accepted, and so the project snowballed: there are now over 100 composers who have written or agreed to write for it – an undertaking unique in the history of music. This first volume presents the first eleven pieces in an initiative which, in effect, transforms love into something you can hear.