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Peter Oundjian, Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto (2018)

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Peter Oundjian, Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto (2018)

Peter Oundjian, Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Serenade to Music; Flos Campi (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 82:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 5201 | Recorded: 2017

The British serialist Elisabeth Lutyens characterized Ralph Vaughan Williams as a member of the "cowpat school." The description is not only uncharitable but inaccurate: Vaughan Williams was interested not only in pastoralism but in war, religion (although he was an atheist), mysticism, the works of Shakespeare, American poetry, and much more. Musically he could sound, as in the Piano Concerto in C major heard here, like a pure Parisian neoclassicist, like a fairly hard-edged modernist, like a neo-Renaissance glorifier of British tradition, or, yes, like a pastoralist, as in the marvelous little Oboe Concerto in A minor on this Chandos release.

Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

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Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)
Doric String Quartet; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Peter Oundjian, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA5199 | Time: 01:11:23

As part of his final year as Music Director and following a two-season celebration of the Orchestra’s 125th anniversary, Peter Oundjian and the RSNO here present their second recording of music by John Adams, with the exceptional participation of the Doric String Quartet. Written for a large orchestra including six percussionists, keyboard sampler, and amplified steel-string guitar, Naive and Sentimental Music is a sweepingly symphonic masterpiece, full of contrasts and clashes. It reflects the dichotomy between ‘naive’ and ‘sentimental’ poetry as analysed by Friedrich Schiller in his 1795 essay Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung, as well as the ‘bipolar’ musical life of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the dedicatee of this piece, who conducted the first performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1999. Absolute Jest is a large-scale scherzo for amplified string quartet and orchestra, heavily inspired by the music of Beethoven, which Adams has always deeply admired. The quartet of soloists, a late addition to the score, emphasises the echoes of Beethoven’s music (mainly his string quartets) and facilitates a ‘hyperspace rate’ of virtuosity, which the Doric String Quartet here perfectly demonstrates.