Rands: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra - Music for Shoko: Aub

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Label
Lyrita
Release Date
May 3, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      RANDS, BERNARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales
    • PERFORMER
      Biss, Walters, Chaundy, Rose, Zehn
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 03, 2019
    • UPC
      5020926037923
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SRCD379
    • LABEL
      Lyrita
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Fantasia: Noble

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Biss

      Conductor: Markus Stenz

    2. II. Slow, quiet, vague and mysterious

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Biss

      Conductor: Markus Stenz

    3. III. Delicate and playful

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Biss

      Conductor: Markus Stenz

    4. Music for Shoko, "Aubade" (version for cor anglais and orchestra)

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Robert Walters, Stephen Rose, Jeffrey Zehngut, Joanna Patterson Zakany, Charles Bernard

      Conductor: Markus Stenz

    5. No. 1. Mattina

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    6. No. 2. The Dawn Verse

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    7. No. 3. The Masque of the Twelve Months

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    8. No. 4. Soleil et chair

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    9. No. 5. Portami il girasole

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    10. No. 6. Vision and Prayer

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    11. No. 7. Sono tre calabroni

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    12. No. 8. Futility

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    13. No. 9. September

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    14. No. 10. November by the Sea

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    15. No. 11. Fadensonnen

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    16. No. 12. Harmonie du Soir

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    17. No. 13. The Sunset Verse

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton

    18. No. 14. Ed è subito sera

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Stephen Chaundy

      Conductor: William Boughton


The international reputation of Bernard Rands as one of the leading composers of his generation rests on over a hundred well-crafted scores of notable formal cohesion, dramatic intensity and lyrical beauty. The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2013) was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in celebration of Rands's eightieth birthday year and as implied by it's title, the piece is for piano and orchestra rather than a piano concerto. Hence, the solo part is primus inter pares and is not required to play the conventional role of a protagonist striving heroically for supremacy over the masses. Canti del Sole, for tenor and orchestra (1983) describes a day's progression from dawn to dusk through a continuous setting of fourteen poems about the sun. The poems are arranged into two groups of seven. Music for Shoko: Aubade is an atmospheric mini-tone poem for English horn and string quartet (2017). It is dedicated to Bernard Rands's friend Shoko Suzuki in appreciation of their many years of friendship and her devotion to the composer's music. The piece is a transcription of the central 'Aubade' movement from the Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra, which was written for the soloist Robert Walters. The solo part of the chamber piece is identical to that of the concerto movement, while the orchestral music is accommodated, with adjustments, by the string quartet.