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Håkan Hardenberger plays Dean & Francesconi

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Catalogue numberBIS-2067 SACD
Release date2017-05-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time58:30

Ever since his very first disc, released by BIS some thirty years ago, Håkan Hardenberger has earned recognition for his performances of the classical repertory, but also as a pioneer of significant and virtuosic new music for the trumpet. Collaborations with composers such as Takemitsu, Pärt, Henze and H K Gruber have resulted in numerous works, of which the two recorded here are among the more recent.

Brett Dean’s concerto Dramatis personae is named after the term used for the list of characters in a stage work, and casts the soloist in the role of the ‘Hero’. Dean’s protagonist is a complex one, however, with traits inspired by comic-book super heroes as well as the classical flawed heroes of literature and legend: ‘Soliloquy’, the second movement, is a reference to Hamlet, while Charlie Chaplin’s character in Modern Times has inspired the work’s finale, ‘The Accidental Revolutionary’.

If there is a hero in the concerto by Luca Francesconi, it is Miles Davis. In his comments to the work, Francesconi talks of Davis as ‘a musician who transcends all labels’ with ‘a delicate, cracked sound’ and a voice which speaks directly to the listener. Hard Pace, the title of Francesconi’s work, is an allusion to a difficult journey, but it is also a conflation of the names of the performers for whom it was written: Hardenberger, Antonio Pappano and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra. On the present recording it is the Gothenburg Symphony and conductor John Storgårds who provide Håkan Hardenberger with expert support in these demanding, and rewarding, scores.
 
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  Composer: Dean, Brett
  Dramatis personae for trumpet and orchestra 31:03
01 I. Fall of a Superhero 13:13 $ 3.18 USD
02 II. Soliloquy 08:29 $ 2.05 USD
03 III. The Accidental Revolutionary 09:21 $ 2.32 USD
 
 
  Composer: Francesconi, Luca
  Hard Pace, Concerto for trumpet and orchestra 26:17
04 I. 12:14 $ 2.97 USD
05 II. Adagio 07:39 $ 1.84 USD
06 Miles 03:35 $ 0.86 USD
07 Finale 02:49 $ 0.80 USD
 
  Album total 58:30
ComposerDean, Brett
Francesconi, Luca
TrumpetHardenberger, Håkan
OrchestraGothenburg Symphony Orchestra
ConductorStorgårds, John

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