Release Date: 01 September 2018
Label: Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113444677
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Emil Tabakov
Description
Bulgarian Emil Tabakov (b. 1947) follows in the footsteps of such musicians as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, being active as both composer and conductor. Like Mahler, he prefers to write for large forces and now has ten symphonies to his name. Again like Mahler, Tabakov's symphonies explore the darker side of the human spirit in epic scores as austere as they are powerful. Behind the plain title of Tabakov's Concert Piece for Orchestra (1985) lurks an extraordinary explosion of violence and anger. The Fourth Symphony (1997) sandwiches a wild Bulgarian dance between two glacial slow movements, the second with an episode of Tchaikovskian lyricism at its centre; the finale is a dark, whirling moto perpetuo – a ride through hell. This is the third volume of a projected series of all ten Tabakov symphonies, most of them receiving their first recordings.
Tracklisting
Petri Komulainen; Jan Lehtola
Zemtsov/Bulgarian Nrso
Williams/Daniell/Lepper
Watkins/Rsno/Andrews
Warren Mailley-Smith
Wareen Mailley-Smith
Vinograde/Lpo/Amos
Varsovia/Hobson
