Stuart MacRae: Violin Concerto

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The premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto at the 2001 Proms cemented his reputation and transformed him at the age of 25 from a hugely promising talent into a composer of real stature... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Sep 2006
Catalogue No: NMCD115
Label: NMC
Length: 67 minutes

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MacRae: Violin Concerto

Work length38:57

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$6.50

Christian Tetzlaff
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov

I. Giusto

Track length17:40

Album only

$1.30

II. Largo e mesto

Track length7:55

$1.50

$1.30

III. Animoso

Track length6:59

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Malinconico

Track length6:23

$1.00

$2.60

MacRae: 2 Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino

Work length3:00

$1.00

$3.85

Lore Lixenberg
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Susanna Mälkki

No. 1, Sostenuto

Track length3:00

$1.00

$3.85

MacRae: 2 Scenes from "The Death of Count Ugolino

Work length9:44

$1.50

$1.30

Lore Lixenberg
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Susanna Mälkki

No. 2, Energico

Track length9:44

$1.50

$1.30

MacRae: Motus

Work length10:27

$1.50

$5.15

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Susanna Mälkki
Recorded: 24 April 2005
Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

MacRae: Stirling Choruses

Work length5:35

$1.00

$2.60

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov
Recorded: 24 April 2005
Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, commissioned for the 2001 BBC Proms, is performed here by soloist Christian Tetzlaff with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Ilan Volkov; it is coupled with Stirling Choruses, written for the brass section of the BBC SSO, which portrays the "dark and foreboding" Stirling Castle.

These are works are joined by Motus, a processional for 6 instruments; and Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino, for voice and instrumental ensemble - based on a gruesome section of Dante's Inferno, and featuring mezzo-soprano Lor? Lixenberg.

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September 2006

The premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto at the 2001 Proms cemented his reputation and transformed him at the age of 25 from a hugely promising talent into a composer of real stature and maturity. Christian Tetzlaff is one of a number of violinists to have taken the Concerto into their repertory, and his performance on this disc is dazzling.

2010

A disc devoted to Stuart MacRae is timely, as the 30-year-old composer has built a considerable reputation. As the composer remarks in his booklet-note, all four pieces (written between 1999 and 2004) outline a journey. Abstractly, in the Birtwistle-like division of brass in the hieratic Stirling Choruses and the vividly soloistic sextet of Motus, whose progress from the fractured and discursive to the sustained and cumulative recalls that of the fine trumpet concerto Interact; graphically, as in the Dante texts relating the Infernal afterlife of Count Ugolino, even if the vocal line seems overwrought – at least when delivered with the vehemence of Loré Lixenberg – in the context of instrumental writing itself rich in expressive detail. The Violin Concerto is the most impressive work here: a successful formal recasting of the genre with the emotional emphasis on its finale, a striking amalgam of cadenza and apotheosis that handles the orchestra with considerable finesse. Dedicated playing from Christian Tetzlaff, along with the BCMG and BBC Scottish SO. An important release.

November 2006

The Violin Concerto is the most impressive work here: a successful formal recasting of the genre with the emotional emphasis on its finale, a striking amalgam of cadenza and apotheosis that handles the orchestra with considerable finesse. Dedicated playing from Christian Tetzlaff, along with the BCMG and BBC Scottish SO; an important release.

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