Despite its dreamy title and cover, Nordic Spell is actually solid and substantial, and the modern flute concertos on this 2005 release from BIS are, for the most part, far from fluff. The highly gifted flutist and prolific recording artist Sharon Bezaly is the recipient of many new works, and this CD presents pieces by Kalevi Aho, Haukur Tómasson ...
For this 2007 disc -- their 16th for the BIS label -- conductor Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony have turned to a subject quite congenial to musicians of an island nation: the sea that surrounds them and shapes their lives. Thus, three of the four works bear the same title -- Debussy's La Mer, Bridge's The Sea, and Glazunov's The Sea -- and one ...
Sweden's BIS label has issued a series of recordings centered loosely on the idea of rediscovering virtuosity; many of them contain concertos, either contemporary or from the early twentieth century. Perhaps the concerto was once thought to be a form in decline, along with the magnificent individualism it was thought to represent. But if this was ...
Israeli-born violinist Sharon Bezaly now lives in Sweden, where this recording was made, with a Brazilian orchestra and conductor (a grand-nephew of Arnold Schoenberg). The program is international as well, with entertaining liner notes presenting an instructive short history of the musical relationship between France and Spain. It is intriguing ...
Sofia Gubaidulina's The Deceitful Face of Hope and of Despair (2005) is stark, existential music, a weighty flute concerto cast in one continuous movement that lasts close to a half hour, and which challenges the emotions of the listener almost as much as it taxes the endurance of the soloist. If the title -- drawn from T.S. Eliot's penitential ...
Sharon Bezaly's Spellbound serves as an installment among a number of BIS releases whereby the label assists in commissioning new works by contemporary composers for the young Israeli-born flutist to play. In this case, all of the pieces are by women of widely ranging generations and backgrounds; Sofia Gubaidulina, of course, is the venerated ...
Born in 1975, the three works of Finnish composer Uljas Pulkkis heard on this album come from a young man of only 25-27 years of age. In such a short span of time, it's rather remarkable to notice just how compositionally different each of these works are. The earliest work is Enchanted Garden, an eight-chapter tour de force for solo violin and ...
Buyers should note that the Swedish pun in this album's title doesn't work in English; the title Barocking Together suggests a Baroque-rock fusion, but this is a program of straight Baroque music, mostly by Bach. Further, of the four Bach flute sonatas on the program, one (the Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031) is probably by C.P.E. Bach, and ...
Israeli-born Swedish flutist Sharon Bezaly has been in the forefront of a group of players who have rediscovered the virtuoso literature of the flute (and other instruments) from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in France especially. She yields to no one in the technical arena, flawlessly executing the circular-breathing ...
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