Håkan Hardenberger plays Dean and Francesconi

Most bewitching is the soulfulness of Hardenberger’s response as Francesconi pays poetic tribute to that real-life hero of the trumpet and more, Miles Davis. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2067
Label: BIS
Length: 58 minutes

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Dean, B: Dramatis personæ

Work length31:28

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Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: November 2014
Recording Venue: Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden

I. Fall of a Superhero

Track length13:15

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II. Soliloquy

Track length8:33

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III. The Accidental Revolutionary

Track length9:40

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Francesconi: Hard Pace

Work length26:58

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Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
John Storgårds
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden

I. Quarter Note = 60

Track length12:23

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II. Adagio

Track length7:41

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III. Miles

Track length3:35

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IV. Finale

Track length3:19

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Ever since his very first disc, released by BIS some thirty years ago, Hakan Hardenberger has earned recognition for his performances of the classical repertory, but also as a pioneer of significant and vituosic new music for the trumpet. Collaborations with composers such as Takemitsu, Part, Henze, and H.K. Gruber have resulted in numerous works, of which the two recorded here are among the more recent. Brett Dean's concerto Dramatis personae is named after the term used for the list of characters in a stage work, and casts the soloist in the role of the ''Hero''. Dean's protagonist is a complex one, however, with traits inspired by comic book super heros as well as the classical flawed heros of literature and legend: ''Soliloquy'', the second movement, is a reference to Hamlet, while Charlie Chaplin's character in Modern Times has inspired the work's finale, ''The Accidental Revolutionary''. If there is a hero in the concerto by Luca Francesconi, it is Miles Davis. In his comment sto the work, Francesconi talks of Davis as ''a musician who transcends all labels'' with ''a delicate, cracked sound'' and a voice which speaks directly to the listener. Hard Pace, the title of Francesconi's work, is an allusion to a difficult journey, but it is also a conflation of the names of the performers for whom it was written: Hardenberger, Antonio Pappano and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra. On the present recording it is the Gothenburg Symphony and conductor John Storgards who provide Hakan Hardenberger with expert support in these demanding and rewarding scores.

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November 2017

Most bewitching is the soulfulness of Hardenberger’s response as Francesconi pays poetic tribute to that real-life hero of the trumpet and more, Miles Davis.

August 2017

Not only is Dean’s piece as theatrical as its title would suggest, it also has a compelling downwards trajectory...Luca Francesconi’s concerto Hard Pace couldn’t be more different but is just as special, perhaps even more so...With Storgårds and the GSO, it’s a dream team

6th August 2017

Two impressive 21st-century trumpet concertos...Both are brilliantly done by the Gothenburg Symphony, with Hardenberger’s thrilling trumpet playing taking centre stage.

Classical Ear September 2017

It’s virtuosic writing all round, vertiginously so for Hardenberger; the abiding impression granular, craggy and imposing. Superb support from John Storgårds’s Gothenburg forces in a bold, biting recording.

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