Lang Lang, China PO, Long Yu; Sophie Shao, 21st Century ChO, Ludwig Wicki - Howard Shore: Two Concerti (2016)
Howard Shore - Two Concerti: 'Ruin & Memory', 'Mythic Gardens' (2016)
Lang Lang, piano; The China Philharmonic Orchestra; Long Yu, conductor
Sophie Shao, cello; 21st Century Chamber Orchestra; Ludwig Wicki, conductor
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Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88985348732 | Time: 00:53:32
Lang Lang, piano; The China Philharmonic Orchestra; Long Yu, conductor
Sophie Shao, cello; 21st Century Chamber Orchestra; Ludwig Wicki, conductor
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 233 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 122 Mb | Scans ~ 43 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88985348732 | Time: 00:53:32
Howard Shore's is one of today’s most prolific and accomplished composers - his compositions are performed in concert halls around the world by the most prestigious orchestras & his numerous film scores are heard in cinemas across the globe. Most renowned for his score for the ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy & 'The Hobbit’ series, these scores have garnered him three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, as well as numerous critics’ and festival Awards. Ruin & Memory: This piano concerto was written for Lang Lang in 2010 for Chopin’s 200th anniversary year & was commissioned by the Beijing Music Festival Arts Foundation & artistically supported by Long Yu, Chairman of the Artistic Committee of the Beijing Music Festival. The concerto has romantic touches, including a cadenza in the third movement, but its musical forces owe much to the classical era. Mythic Gardens: This Concerto for Violoncello & Orchestra (2012) was written for Sophie Shao & sits as a companion piece to ‘Ruin & Memory’. Sophie Shao is the winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant & top prizes at the Rostropovich and Tchaikovsky competitions in recent years. Shore was inspired when writing this piece by the architecture of three classic Italian Gardens: Cimbrone, Medici and Visconti Borromeo Litta. It is commissioned by the American Symphony Orchestra & funded by a generous gift from Linda and Stuart Nelson.
Marketing materials bill this Sony release as containing "two concerti in celebration of Chopin's music" by Howard Shore, best known for the soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings films. Actually, only the opening Ruin & Memory concerto for piano and orchestra, played by Lang Lang, had that aim; the cello concerto Mythic Gardens, performed by cellist Sophie Shao, was inspired by Italian gardens, but is provided as a companion work to the piano concerto. Both works are successful, the cello concerto perhaps even a trifle more so. Shore's tonal world is that of Chopin, but Chopin never wrote music like this. Chopin's piano concertos were early works, structurally (although not melodically) rudimentary. Shore's treatment of the orchestra is that of a film composer, and that collides in interesting ways with the concerto concept: the solo instruments rarely take the stage alone, but are backed by shifting groups of instruments that create quite subtle shades (and the performers are ably backed by Sony's engineers here, working some time apart, in two entirely different venues). Sample the first movement of the Mythic Gardens concerto, where the cello's role is more like Berlioz than Chopin, walking through Italian garden paths with lots more going on. If it's neo-Chopin you're after, the slow movements do evoke him, but again with novel structural twists. Lang Lang, backed by the China Philharmonic Orchestra under Long Yu, delivers the dashing sweep that has made him a star, but an even stronger impression is left by Shao, with the 21st Century Chamber Orchestra under Ludwig Wicki; she is a passionate player who takes command of a difficult score. It may be that appealing to the growing Chinese audience is part of the agenda here, but this is superior "crossover" music for anyone, the kind that doesn't betray the structural rigor that has historically defined music in the classical tradition.Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com
Lang Lang, China PO, Long Yu; Sophie Shao, 21st Century ChO, Ludwig Wicki - Howard Shore: Two Concerti (2016)
Lang Lang, piano (1-3)
The China Philharmonic Orchestra (1-3)
Long Yu, conductor (1-3)
Sophie Shao, cello (4-6)
21st Century Chamber Orchestra (4-6)
Ludwig Wicki, conductor (4-6)
Tracklist:
'Ruin & Memory'
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
In Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Frederic Chopin
01. I. Andante Nobile (11:03)
02. II. Largo (10:24)
03. III. Prestissimo (8:26)
- Recorded 11.X.2010
'Mythic Gardens'
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
A Companion Concerto to 'Ruin & Memory'
04. I. Cimbrone (9:30)
05. II. Medici (6:52)
06. III. Visconti Borromeo Litta (7:17)
- Recorded 20.IV.2014
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Lang Lang, China PO, Long Yu; Sophie Shao, 21st Century ChO, Ludwig Wicki - Howard Shore: Two Concerti (2016)
