Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths Kristina Blaumane, Maxim Rysanov & Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

• Insight - For string trio
• 1 Insight 09:35
• Concerto for Cello and Strings
• 2 I. Turbulent, Tense 07:19
• 3 II. Longing 08:42
• 4 III. Radiant 04:53
• Frozen River Flows for violin, accordion and double bass
• 5 Frozen River Flows 06:13
• Suite in Old Style for solo viola, harpsichord and strings
• 6 Prelude. Fanfare from the Balconies, Back from Hunting - I. Through Mirrored Corridors 06:01
• 7 II. The Rose Garden By Moonlight 07:30
• 8 III. Riddle of the Barrel-Organ Player - Postlude. Hunting and Finale 05:04
• Such different paths for string septet
• 9 Such Different Paths 16:56
• Total Runtime 01:12:13

Info for Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths

ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the music of Dobrinka Tabakova, a composer born in Bulgaria in 1980 but raised from a young age in London. In Tabakova’s music – richly melodic, texturally sensuous, often emotionally radiant – there resides the new and the familiar, or rather the familiar within the new, and vice versa; there are the spirits of East and West coursing through the pieces, usually hand in hand; and just as the composer’s technical virtuosity is apparent, she possesses a desire, and a gift, for direct communication that can be heard in virtually every measure.

The recording features Tabakova’s Concerto for Cello & Strings and the Rameau-channeling Suite in Old Style for viola and chamber orchestra, as well as three chamber works: the string trio Insight, the string septet Such Different Paths and a trio for violin, accordion and double-bass, Frozen River Flows. The performers include star violinist Janine Jansen and several of Tabakova’s former conservatory colleagues: violinist Roman Mints, violist-conductor Max Rysanov and cellist Kristina Blaumane, principal with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

'...extraordinary ear for melody and texture...' (International Record Review)

'...startlingly original – immediately appealing...' (BBC Music Magazine)

'A multicoloured sound world…saturated with an inner, captivating and natural energy...' (Culture, Sofia)

Kristina Blaumane, violoncello
Maxim Rysanov, viola, conductor
Janine Jansen, violin
Roman Mints, violin
Julia-Maria Kretz, violin
Amihai Grosz, viola
Torleif Thedéen, violoncello
Boris Andrianov, violoncello
Raimondas Sviackevičius, accordion
Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė, harpsichord
Stacey Watton, double bass
Donatas Bagurskas, double bass
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

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