Beaser: Guitar Concerto
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ROBERT BEASER
Beaser: Guitar Concerto
José Serebrier, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Eliot Fisk
[ Linn / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 23 June 2017
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Conducting legend José Serebrier, together with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performs the premiere recording of four works by contemporary American composer, Robert Beaser.
Two of the works, Notes on a Southern Sky and the Guitar Concerto, were written for guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, a noted pupil of Andrés Segovia, who performed the concerto alongside José Serebrier in 2015 and returns for this recording.
Fisk describes them as 'epic works of historical importance in the history of the guitar.' Premiered by Fisk in New York in 2009, the Guitar Concerto is truly
symphonic in scale with virtuoso passages that only a master could write; the variety of styles perfectly exploits Fisk's dazzling agility.
Evening Prayer is an orchestral tone poem demonstrating the melodic and harmonic beauty which characterises Beaser's style Ground O is Beaser's own orchestration of an earlier work written within a month of the events of September 11; its power to reflect the enormous sadness of this tragedy is unspeakably moving.
'José Serebrier is a top rate conductor/composer with a sense of choice and judgement second to none. He gets the very best from a youthful RSNO.' MusicWeb International
'I consider Eliot Fisk as one of the most brilliant, intelligent and gifted young musical artists of our times.' Andrés Segovia
Tracks:
1. Chains and Hammers
2. Tombeau
3. Phrygian Pick
4. Notes on a Southern Sky
5. Evening Prayer
6. Ground O
