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Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths

Maxim Rysanov (viola, conductor), Kristina Blaumane, Torleif Thedéen, Boris Andrianov (cello), Roman Mints, Janine Jansen, Julia- Maria Kretz (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Raimondas Sviackevicius (accordion), Donatas Bagurskas, Stacey Watton (double bass) & Vaiva Eidukaityte-Storastiene (harpsichord)

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Tabakova writes for her chosen instruments with disarming naturalness and enthusiasm...Contemporary music, in short, that's amazingly easy on the ear. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th May 2013
Catalogue No: 4764826
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 72 minutes

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Tabakova: Insight

Work length9:35

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Maxim Rysanov (viola), Roman Mints (violin), Kristina Blaumane (cello)
Recorded: 2011-04-04
Recording Venue: Vilnius

Tabakova: Concerto for Violoncello and Strings

Work length20:53

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Kristina Blaumane (cello)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Rysanov
Recorded: 2011-04-04
Recording Venue: Vilnius

I. (Turbulent, Tense)

Track length7:19

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II. (Longing)

Track length8:42

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III. (Radiant)

Track length4:52

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Tabakova: Frozen River Flows

Work length6:12

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Roman Mints (violin), Raimondas Sviackevičius (accordion), Donatas Bagurskas (double bass)
Recorded: 2011-04-04
Recording Venue: Vilnius

Tabakova: Suite in Old Style

Work length18:35

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Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė (harpsichord)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Rysanov
Recorded: 2011-04-04
Recording Venue: Vilnius

Prelude: Fanfare From The Balconies - I. Through Mirrored Corridors

Track length6:01

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II. The Rose Garden, By Moonlight

Track length7:30

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III. Riddle Of The Barrel-Organ Player - Postlude: Hunting And Finale

Track length5:04

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Tabakova: Such different paths

Work length16:57

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Janine Jansen (violin), Julia-Maria Kretz (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Boris Andrianov (cello), Stacey Watton (double bass)
Recorded: 2013
Recording Venue: Berlin

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ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the composer Dobrinka Tabakova, who was born in Bulgaria in 1980, raised from a young age in London, and is now a British citizen. This remarkable recording of her orchestral and chamber compositions for strings is richly melodic, texturally sensuous, and often emotionally radiant.

The disc features Tabakova’s Concerto for Cello & Strings and the Rameau-channeling Suite in Old Style for viola and chamber orchestra - both performed by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra - as well as three chamber works: the string trio Insight, the string septet Such Different Paths and a trio for violin, accordion and double-bass, Frozen River Flows.

The performers include star violinist Janine Jansen, leading the septet heard in Such Different Paths, and several of Tabakova’s former conservatory colleagues from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama: violinist Roman Mints, violist and conductor Maxim Rysanov, and Kristina Blaumane, principal cellist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tabakova’s music has a particularly 21st-century feel for its broad palette - its free mix of tonality and modality, of folk-music influence and the example of past masters. In it there resides the new and the familiar, or rather the familiar within the new, and vice versa; there are the spirits of East and West coursing through the pieces, usually hand in hand; and just as the composer’s technical virtuosity is apparent, she displays a gift for direct communication that can be heard in virtually every measure.

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Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

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August 2013

Tabakova writes for her chosen instruments with disarming naturalness and enthusiasm...Contemporary music, in short, that's amazingly easy on the ear.

June 2013

The performances are as formidably assured as the roster of musicians would suggest...If not revelatory, Tabakova's is still a thoughtful and approachable new voice which ought to secure an enthusiastic following.

16th July 2013

Tabakova may be Bulgarian-born but she has drunk deep from the British pastoral spring. Her music is tonal, unequivocally emotional and tuneful...Revel in this - you cannot help but be emotionally moved.

1st June 2013

she’s brilliant at seizing your attention...Tabakova’s Suite in Old Style for viola and chamber orchestra won’t frighten anyone – an affectionate baroque pastiche which does plumb genuine depths...ECM’s sound is, as usual, rich and detailed.

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