Jalbert, Bach, Part, Vasks - Music for Violin and Orchestra
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2309
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 30th August 2019
Contents
Works
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV1041Violin Concerto
Fratres (version for violin, strings and percussion)
Lonely Angel for violin and string orchestra
Artists
Margaret Batjer (violin)Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Jeffrey KahaneWorks
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV1041Violin Concerto
Fratres (version for violin, strings and percussion)
Lonely Angel for violin and string orchestra
Artists
Margaret Batjer (violin)Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Jeffrey KahaneAbout
For the second half of the programme we return to our own time, travelling northwards to the Baltic countries, as Bach is followed by one of his great admirers in modern music, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935). Margaret Batjer and the orchestra offer us their performance of what is probably Pärt’s most famous piece, Fratres from 1977. Originally written for chamber ensemble ‘without fixed instrumentation’, it soon became a modern classic and exists in numerous versions. The one heard here, for violin, string orchestra and percussion, was made by the composer in 1992. The closing Lonely Angel is by Pärt’s slightly younger colleague Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946) from Latvia. Reworked from a movement for string quartet, the piece was inspired by a particular image: ‘I saw an angel, flying over the world; the angel looks at the world’s condition with grieving eyes, but an almost imperceptible, loving touch of the angel’s wings brings comfort…’
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