Kurt Bertels; Flanders Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 28 August 2020
Label: Etcetera
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8711801016702
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Introducing the world’s first concertos for saxophone and orchestra by Paul Gilson (1865-1942).
Including two premiere recordings, saxophonist Kurt Bertels hopes not only to make the Belgian composer Paul Gilson’s works for saxophone and orchestra much better known but also to broaden the instrument’s standard repertoire with his CD Works for Saxophone and Orchestra by Paul Gilson.
In collaboration with Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Bertels endeavours to present these works in a historically informed manner, with the intention of linking the instrument to the movement for historically informed performance.
This CD is the artistic result of the doctoral research carried out by Kurt Bertels which focused on the context, performance practice and repertoire of the saxophone school that existed at the Royal Brussels Conservatory between 1867 and 1904 which led to the rediscovery of the autographs of Gilson’s Premier Concerto and Recitatif et Serenade.
The Brussels-born Paul Gilson composed two concertos for saxophone and orchestra — the first ever to be composed — in 1902; Gilson also reworked his Recitatif et Serenade
for cello and orchestra into a version for tenor saxophone in 1906. Gilson’s first saxophone concerto, on the other hand,
was only rediscovered after a long search.
Tracklisting
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Hendrickje Van Kerckhove, Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Severine Sierens, Hannelore Vermeir, Hans Ryckelynck,
Nuno Cernadas
Amy Norrington, Piet Kuijken
Herman Jeurissen, Ensemble Capricorno, Geerten van der Wetering
Currende, Erik van Vevel
Thomas Blondelle, Filip Rathe
Marco Mantovani
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
