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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Constantine, Brett Deubner – Patrick O’Malley: The Horizons (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:55 minutes | 1,90 GB | Genre: Classical
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Acclaimed composer Patrick O’Malley’s The Horizons constitutes a musical odyssey, curated by O’Malley and featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Constantine, with virtuoso violist Brett Deubner. The album explores depths of emotion, dichotomies, and the joys of orchestral expression. O’Malley’s viola concerto, named The Horizons, encapsulates a journey of rejuvenation and maturation. Born from the challenges of the Covid lockdowns, O’Malley’s composition captures a sense of rebirth, while Brett Deubner’s performance on the viola, navigating fragility and strength, demonstrates the delicate balance between soloist and orchestra. Elsewhere, “Obliviana” delves into anxieties surrounding technological advancement, juxtaposing dystopian visions with moments of euphoria, while “Rest and Restless” navigates terrestrial concerns, weaving through emotional landscapes with an orchestral palette amplifying the solo double bass origins. Brett Deubner’s expressive playing in O’Malley’s “Soliloquy,” serves as an encore, highlighting the viola’s beauty in isolation.
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Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Andrew Constantine – Bricht: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:04 minutes | 922 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Austrian composer Walter Bricht (1904-1970) was one of many musicians of Jewish ancestry who fled Vienna after the Anschluss for the safety of the USA; Bricht became a valued professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Fittingly, it is the nearby Fort Wayne Philharmonic, in its own debut recording, that has made the first album of Brichts music. The recording reveals another major Viennese voice and points to yet another potentially important career cut off in the bud by the Nazis. Bricht was reportedly Franz Schmidts favorite student, and the late-Romantic styles of the two men are indeed very closely aligned in their mix of Baroque counterpoint, Classical form and Wagnerian chromatic harmony: Brichts Symphony in A minor might almost be Schmidts No. 5.
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