Emil Tabakov – Emil Tabakov: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 5 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:04 minutes | 813 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov (b. 1947) explores the darker side of the human spirit in epic scores as austere as they are powerful. The Second Symphony is a diptych where the wild, stamping, manic whirl of the second movement releases the store of energy pent up by the grief-stricken first. The four-movement Sixth Symphony is a tragic utterance in the monumental manner of the middle-period Shostakovich symphonies, bleak and gripping in equal measure.
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Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Emil Tabakov – Emil Tabakov: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 6 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:51 minutes | 597 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov (born 1947) explores the darker side of the human spirit in epic scores as austere as they are powerful. His mighty Seventh Symphony, almost an hour in length, is conceived on a massive scale. The monumental opening Allegro moderato passes through islands of calm during its desperate ride through hell, and is followed by a heaven-rattling funeral march and a wild, swirling dance. The finale opens by stoking up the tension in an extensive slow introduction before the music is once again whipped into a maelstrom of dark, driven energy, piling forward to its inexorable conclusion.
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Sofia Soloists Chamber Orchestra & Emil Tabakov – Emil Tabakov: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 7 (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:17 minutes | 712 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov (b. 1947) explores the darker side of the human spirit in monumental scores as austere as they are powerful. Like many of his earlier symphonies, the Ninth, nearly an hour in length, is conceived on a massive scale. The opening Adagio forms an epic, glacial prelude to the driving Presto second movement. Two further slow movements follow: a Largo, which offers an island of relief after the tumult of the scherzo, and a finale which, after opening with an extensive Largo of its own, is transformed into a wild, driving, violent Allegro moderato. The symphony is prefaced by a virtuoso study for string ensemble written over 30 years earlier and remarkable for its contrapuntal fireworks and its explosive, almost elemental energy.
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Elizabeth Joy Roe, London Symphony Orchestra, Emil Tabakov – Britten, Barber: Piano Concertos & Nocturnes (2015)
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This solo release, a unique coupling of two of the 20th Century’s greatest piano concertos marks Decca’s first-ever recording of the Barber concerto and the first of the Britten since the classic Richter account conducted by the composer in 1970.
Elizabeth Joy Roe has been performing both works since a student at Julliard and has written extensive booklet notes which detail the intriguing parallels between the two composers. Her New York concerto debut was in the Britten conducted by James Conlon at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center and in 2003 she was invited to replace the Barber concerto’s dedicatee, John Browning, at a performance with the Delaware Symphony shortly after Browning’s death.
The album is completed with two solo piano nocturnes by each composer: Britten’s ‘Night Piece’ and Barber’s ‘Nocturne – Homage to John Field’, widely-considered the father of the nocturne.
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