Linus Roth, Brussels Philharmonic, Robert Groslot
Release Date: 25 August 2023
Label: Antarctica
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917734621
Genres: Classical
Description
The premiere recording of Robert Groslot's First Symphony. German virtuoso Linus Roth makes the violin solo for Groslot's SecondViolin Concerto totally his own with his brilliant interpretation.
Now, Voyager, sail... (First Symphony), Op. 130 is Robert Groslot's first symphony. The title refers to a poem by the American author Walt Whitman. And the "Scherzo" movement shares a link with the Beatles song,Getting Better from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Groslot borrows musical motives and paraphrases them in his musical language.
A unique selling point of the present recording is that the solo part of the Violin Concerto is performed by German virtuoso Linus Roth. Roth received the prestigious ECHO KLASSIK Award in 2006 (as best newcomer) and in 2017 for his recording of the Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra. But he is also a tireless advocate of repertoire that has been unjustly neglected. Since Linus is almost exclusively responsible for the (re)discovery of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a late Romantic composer whose music hovered on the brink of modernism, he is also a perfect fit for Groslot's new concerto.
"Groslot's Walt Whitman-inspired Now, Voyager, sail, here recorded for the first time, is full of cinematic bombast and tense atmosphere. His Second Violin Concert is a virtuosic trapeze act which walks a perfect line between accessibility and intellectual rigour." – BBC Music Magazine, 4 STARS
Tracklisting
Svenja Van Driessche & Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort
C-Sisters
Antarctica
Roeland Hendrikx, Jan Michiels, Brussels Philharmonic, Il Novecento, Robert Groslot
Mayke Rademakers
Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Zemlinsky Quartet, Ataneres Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble
George De Decker
Aart Bergwerff
C-Sisters
Ilze Reinis & Aigars Reinis
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Andre Rieu
Kari Beate Tandberg
Flute Alors
Marie Nadeau-Tremblay; Corriveau; Milnes; Bursey
