David Gompper: Cello Concerto, Double Bass Concerto & Moonburst

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Gompper’s bold orchestral canvases are in an approachable transatlantic modernist style which explores binary opposites of line, timbre, tempo and so on...In the concertos, soloist is pitted... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: 8559855
Label: Naxos
Length: 60 minutes

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Gompper: Cello Concerto

Work length22:48

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$6.45

$8.75

Timothy Gill (cello)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Emmanuel Siffert

I. Mnemosyne

Track length13:06

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$3.85

$5.25

II. Lethe

Track length9:42

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$2.60

$3.50

Gompper: Double Bass Concerto

Work length26:52

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$9.00

$12.25

Volkan Orhon (double bass)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Emmanuel Siffert

I. Penumbra

Track length11:03

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$3.85

$5.25

II. Umbra - III. Antumbra

Track length15:49

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$5.15

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Gompper: Sunburst, Moonburst & Starburst

Work length10:34

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$3.85

$5.25

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Emmanuel Siffert

II. Moonburst

Track length10:34

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$3.85

$5.25

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"David Gompper is an award-winning composer and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. His luminously orchestrated and expressive works have attracted admiration throughout the US, Europe and beyond. Opening with relentless energy, the second movement of the Cello Concerto is spectral and dreamlike, while the Double Bass Concerto explores the light effects of a solar eclipse, using the soloist to suggest shadows, auras and glimpses of sound. A partner work to Sunburst (8.559835), the multi-layered Moonburst reflects the transformational imagery of nocturnal sounds and perceptions."

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February 2021

Gompper’s bold orchestral canvases are in an approachable transatlantic modernist style which explores binary opposites of line, timbre, tempo and so on...In the concertos, soloist is pitted against orchestra ‘in an attempt to world-build’ that yields highly listenable results, thanks also to the virtuoso commitment of Timothy Gill (cello) and Volkan Orhon (double bass).

May/June 2021

All this music has been recorded in strong, composer-supervised performances. Gompper has been writing impressive music for a long time, but in these three albums, we really get the full sense of this truly excellent composer.

March 2021

There are otherworldly aspects, of varying sorts, to the three works, best illustrated by the movement titles…[In the Double Bass Concerto] Volkan Orhon is remarkably agile as the soloist on an instrument not normally noted for being nimble…Emmanuel Siffert once again play this tricky and complex music with consummate professionalism and, once more, Naxos’s sound is exemplary.

David Gompper: Cello Concerto, Double Bass Concerto & Moonburst

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