Lokshin - Les fleurs du mal
Vanda Tabery (soprano), Wolfgang Redik (violin)
Grosses Orchester Graz, Michel Swierczewski
Both [The Art of Poetry and the Sinfonietta] are scored for [Lokshin's] favourite combination of voice and chamber ensemble, and both manage to be simultaneously laconic and passionate. Impressive...
Lokshin - Les fleurs du mal
Vanda Tabery (soprano), Wolfgang Redik (violin)
Grosses Orchester Graz, Michel Swierczewski
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Both [The Art of Poetry and the Sinfonietta] are scored for [Lokshin's] favourite combination of voice and chamber ensemble, and both manage to be simultaneously laconic and passionate. Impressive...
About
This third disc on BIS of the orchestral music of Alexander Lokshin opens with Les fleurs du mal, his first acknowledged composition. The piece was also his graduation work after five years of study under the great Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory.
Purely instrumental is also the symphonic suite In the Jungle from 1960, compiled from music written for a film based on ‘The Jungle Book’ by Kipling. The Art of Poetry, considered by the composer to be one of his best works, also has a Russian text, a poem by Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903–58).
Contents and tracklist
Lokshin:
Les fleurs du mal
Work length17:39
- Vanda Tabery
- Recreation - Graz Grosses Orchester
- Michel Swierczewski
- Recorded: July 2005
- Recording Venue: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz, Austria
I. A une passante
Track length6:53
II. Parfum exotique
Track length3:28
III. Tristesse de la lune
Track length7:18
Lokshin:
Hungarian Fantasy
Work length18:07
- Wolfgang Redik
- Recreation - Graz Grosses Orchester
- Michel Swierczewski
- Recorded: July 2005
- Recording Venue: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz, Austria
Bengerskaya fantaziya (Hungarian Fantasy)
Track length18:07
Lokshin:
Iskusstvo poezii (the Art of Poetry)
Work length6:31
- Vanda Tabery
- Recreation - Graz Grosses Orchester
- Michel Swierczewski
- Recorded: July 2005
- Recording Venue: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz, Austria
Lokshin:
Sinfonietta No. 2
Work length15:34
- Vanda Tabery
- Recreation - Graz Grosses Orchester
- Michel Swierczewski
- Recorded: July 2005
- Recording Venue: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz, Austria
Lokshin:
In the Jungle
Work length23:22
- Recreation - Graz Grosses Orchester
- Michel Swierczewski
- Recorded: July 2005
- Recording Venue: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz, Austria
I. Introduction
Track length1:47
II. The Jungle
Track length3:04
III. Games of the Monkeys
Track length5:27
IV. The Night
Track length3:46
V. The Birds
Track length2:00
VI. The Drive Hunt
Track length2:30
VII. The Round-up - Finale
Track length4:48
Awards and reviews
August 2010
Both [The Art of Poetry and the Sinfonietta] are scored for [Lokshin's] favourite combination of voice and chamber ensemble, and both manage to be simultaneously laconic and passionate. Impressive stuff...Performances are faithful and well prepared, and BIS's recording is predictably first-rate.
