John Pickard: Tenebrae, Piano Concerto & Sea-Change
Fredrik Ullén (piano)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This may be one of the most important contemporary orchesral CDs of 2013...Brabbins puts plenty of fire into the Norrköping players in presenting this full-blooded, ferociously positive music....
John Pickard: Tenebrae, Piano Concerto & Sea-Change
Fredrik Ullén (piano)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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This may be one of the most important contemporary orchesral CDs of 2013...Brabbins puts plenty of fire into the Norrköping players in presenting this full-blooded, ferociously positive music....
About
Martyn Brabbins is at the forefront of contemporary music: well renowned and high profile, he conducted at the opening Night of the Proms 2012.
The three orchestral pieces presented here are a masterclass in orchestral colour and sound. Each piece was composed a decade apart and they give a good overall sense of Pickard’s development. Booklet notes are detailed and informative (by the composer).
Contents and tracklist
Work length31:18
- Fredrik Ullén
- Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra
- Martyn Brabbins
- Recorded: March 2010
- Recording Venue: Louis De Geer Hall, Norrkoping, Sweden
Toccata
Track length9:02
Passacaglia
Track length12:06
Fuga
Track length10:10
Work length17:33
- Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra
- Martyn Brabbins
- Recorded: March 2010
- Recording Venue: Louis De Geer Hall, Norrkoping, Sweden
- Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra
- Martyn Brabbins
- Recorded: December 2011
- Recording Venue: Louis De Geer Hall, Norrkoping, Sweden
Awards and reviews
June 2013
This may be one of the most important contemporary orchesral CDs of 2013...Brabbins puts plenty of fire into the Norrköping players in presenting this full-blooded, ferociously positive music. BIS's sonics are first-rate. An absolute triumph.
May 2013
Brabbins directs with undemonstrative mastery and the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra is suitably uninhibited in its response...That a Swedish orchestra (and record label) should have taken up [this music's] cause in so committed a fashion says much for its intrinsic qualities
23rd May 2013
terrifically exciting...The Norrköping Symphony and Martyn Brabbins may not sound like a guaranteed-knockout team, but here, as on the earlier Pickard disc, they have the technique, the muscle and the insight to make this a recording to cherish
