Credits:

Lechner/Kopatchinskaja/Amsterdam

Description:

A new recording by Tigran Mansurian (1939-), one of Armenia's leading contemporary composers, is a collection of works for chamber music, celebrating his 75th birthday. Each piece is a breathtaking and highly original sound world. Mansourian's aesthetics can be summed up simply: every single note is where it belongs. Compositional sensibility follows the inherent latent power of sound, Wolfgang Sandner says in his liner notes. The gifted violinist Patrizia Kopatchinskaja, born in Moldova in 1977, and the German contemporary cellist Anja Lechner play Mansourian's free creativity with suppleness. Mansourian's free creativity. Universal Music/IMS

Tracklisting:

1.Double Concerto, for violin, violoncello and string orchestra: 1. Largo concentrando
2.Double Concerto, for violin, violoncello and string orchestra: 2. Largo sostenuto
3.Romance
4.Quasi parlando, for violoncello and string orchestra
5.Concerto No. 2, for violin and string orchestra "Four Serious Songs": 1. Andante con moto
6.Concerto No. 2, for violin and string orchestra "Four Serious Songs": 2. Andante mosso, agitato
7.Concerto No. 2, for violin and string orchestra "Four Serious Songs": 3. Allegro vivace
8.Concerto No. 2, for violin and string orchestra "Four Serious Songs": 4. Con moto, molto semplice