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Symphony No. 5

Olaf Elts

Symphony No. 5

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404947520
Catnr: BRIDG 9475
Release date: 25 November 2016
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404947520
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9475
Release date
25 November 2016
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

This disc presents the world premiere recording of Poul Ruders's latest symphony, completed in 2013. The symphony, composed in three movements, is in some ways, the great Danish composer's most traditional symphony- an explosive, quick-paced first movement followed by an hypnotically inward-looking slow movement, followed by a bristling dance finale. Aside from its outer-trappings, Ruders 5 inhabits a sound world all its own. The first movement's opening brass fanfare is followed immediately by startling police whistles and pounding drums- music of volcanic power and intensity. The slow movement employs a huge registral span, and the third movement's funky dance rhythms collide with dense harmonic underpinnings. The work is given a brilliant reading by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, led by the Estonian maestro, Olari Elts. The recording was made in the Danish Radio's new concert hall, named by Gramophone, as one of the "10 best concert halls in the world".
Diese CD präsentiert die Weltpremiere von Poul Ruders' letzter Symphonie, 2013 fertig gestellt.
Die Symphonie besteht aus drei Sätzen und ist in gewisser Weise die traditionsreichste Symphonie des großen dänischen Komponisten - ein explosiver, rasanter erster Satz, gefolgt von einer hypnotisch nach innen gerichteten langsamen Bewegung, abgelöst von einem stürmischen Tanz Finale.
Die Arbeit wird vom dänischen National Symphony Orchestra - unter der Leitung des estnischen Maestro Olari Elts - genial aufgeführt. Die Aufnahme entstand im neuen Konzertsaal des Dänischen Rundfunks, laut ‘‘Gramophone‘‘einer der "10 besten Konzerthallen der Welt".

Composer(s)

Poul Ruders

Poul Ruders (b. 1949) is one of the era’s most highly regarded composers for both the opera stage and the symphonic concert hall. His operas have been staged in Copenhagen, New York City, London, Toronto and Munich, and his orchestral music commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Ruders lives a spartan life in the countryside of Denmark. The isolation has afforded him the opportunity to produce a deep and highly varied catalog which includes five operas, 45 symphonic works and concertos, and dozens of chamber and solo pieces. The music of Poul Ruders has been well-documented by the record labels DaCapo (Denmark) and Bridge (USA), and is published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen. In 2019, Poul...
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Poul Ruders (b. 1949) is one of the era’s most highly regarded composers for both the opera stage and the symphonic concert hall. His operas have been staged in Copenhagen, New York City, London, Toronto and Munich, and his orchestral music commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Ruders lives a spartan life in the countryside of Denmark. The isolation has afforded him the opportunity to produce a deep and highly varied catalog which includes five operas, 45 symphonic works and concertos, and dozens of chamber and solo pieces. The music of Poul Ruders has been well-documented by the record labels DaCapo (Denmark) and Bridge (USA), and is published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen.

In 2019, Poul Ruders will celebrate his 70th birthday with the world premiere of his newest opera, The Thirteenth Child, staged by the Santa Fe Opera. Prior to the premiere, Bridge Records will release a studio recording of the two act ‘fairytale’ opera. Also on tap in 2018/2019 are new productions in the USA and Europe of Ruders’s best known opera, The Handmaid’s Tale after the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood.


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