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The second cello concerto, entitled: Y: la fiesta está en pleno apogeo – And: The feast is in full progress (1993), is based on a poem by the Chuvash poet Gennadi Aigi. The vision of a raging mass of people awaiting the last Judgment is transformed into music by the composer with gripping, immediate, expressive force, free of graphic patterns. A moment of glory not for Gubaidulina only, but for David Geringas on cello, too. And as a bonus on this CD: Diez Preludios –Ten Preludes for Cello, in Vladimir Tonkha’s equally inspired interpretation. Both cellists are the dedicatees of the works they perform.
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (Cond.)
David Geringas (Cello)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Culture House, Helsinki, Finland 1994
Vladimir Tinkha (Cello)
Anthroposophisches Zentrum, Wilhelmshöhe 1994
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A single (and singular) CD documents the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik 2004: Wolfgang Mitterer’s electrifying pieces for organ and electronics.  |
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| Contrasts, hard cuts and discrepancies: Stefan Wolpe’s chamber music offers the listener a stylistic variety that defies simple categorization. |
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| “The building blocks upon which your tradition rests“: Cristóbal Halffter brings together Spanish, Sephardic and Arabic texts in his Siete cantos de España. |
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