When orchestras cannot play at full strength, what should they be playing?
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
…(He) writes long, slow, contemplative works with a strong feeling for lakes, forests and landscape. The title piece for string orchestra is one of those Samuel Barber-like adagios that has no beginning, middle or end while offering an image of the universe that is at once recognizable and nonthreatening. Much of his music is filled with mourning — for his country’s occupation by Germany and Russia, for friends who died — but his signal achievement is never to be morbid. There is always hope somewhere on a Baltic shore…
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
Arrangements for chamber ensemble of symphonic word.
Aren’t orchestras bored of playing the same music by dead people, regardless of how immense and unparalleled their talents are? Why do they play music by simplistic contemporary composers?
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== the Munich Radio Orchestra plays far better than we have a right to expect from the fourth-ranked band in town.
Faulty logic here. The reviewer should adjust his expectations and prejudices