L. van der Pals: Concertos for Violin, Piano & Cello

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Label
CPO
Release Date
August 14, 2020
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      PALS, LEOPOLD VAN DER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Gordan Trajkovic, Tobias Van Der Pals, Marianna Shirinyan, Fredrik B
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 14, 2020
    • UPC
      761203531622
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555316-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. I. Intrada: Allegro - Andante

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Gordan Trajkovic

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    2. II. Allegro energico

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Gordan Trajkovic

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    3. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Tobias van der Pals

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    4. II. Adagio

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Tobias van der Pals

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    5. III. Allegro

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Tobias van der Pals

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    6. I. Andante

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Marianna Shirinyan

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    7. II. Intermezzo: Vivace

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Marianna Shirinyan

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    8. III. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Performer: Marianna Shirinyan

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    9. I. Vorspiel

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    10. II. Mond

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    11. III. Merkur

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    12. IV. Venus

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    13. V. Sonne

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    14. VI. Mars

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    15. VII. Jupiter

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    16. VIII. Saturn

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt

    17. IX. Abstieg

      Composer: Leopold van der Pals

      Ensemble: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

      Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt


Leopold van der Pals wrote a total of three works in which he dealt with the concerto genre. His early music, including his Concert Piece op. 10, was composed in an unmistakably Romantic style, but even then van der Pals challenged harmonic structures and endeavored to submit them to further development. By contrast, his Piano Concerto op. 100 and the Concertino of 1937-38 from his later years attest to a composer who in the meantime had experienced enormous development. Broad Romantic gestures are no longer found in his music, which had become more concentrated with respect to thematic work, formal development, and performance length in individual compositions. The alternation between various musical characters as well as the various means employed in developmental work have expanded. Study of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy led van der Pals to Goethe's idea of metamorphosis, which he then increasingly endeavored to incorporate into his music as a structural basis. The idea that an entire artistic complex can develop from a single seed became an increasingly important factor in his work process and led to entirely new approaches that continued to stamp his creative production through to his late oeuvre. In his late suite on the dramatic poem Monk Wanderer op. 84 the celestial spheres represent association with the physical world, freedom of the spirit, love, light, courage and strength, wisdom, and profound knowledge of the mystery.