Release Date: 29 July 2012
Label: Bridge Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 090404938221
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Music of Poul Ruders Volume 8
Description
This disc presents the premiere recordings of two major Poul Ruders orchestral scores. Offred Suite is a suite of the five major arias from Ruders's greatest international success, the opera, The Handmaid's Tale. Ruders has structured the music in Offred Suite to flow continuously, so that the overall effect is that of a monodrama. Singing the role of Offred is the brilliant young soprano of Metropolitan Opera fame, Susanna Phillips.Ruders's Symphony No. 3 'Dream Catcher' is a 30-minute long work in two interconnected movements. After a stormy introduction, the music dissolves into the main movement. This dreamlike movement connects to a Scherzo prestissimo, a movement which annotator Malcolm MacDonald describes as: a tour-de-force of virtuoso orchestral writing, a teeming, yelping, squealing, buzzing, chittering, whooping riot of sound."The performances by the Odense Symphony under conductor Scott Yoo are nothing short of spectacular. Volume Six of Bridge's Ruders series (BRIDGE 9336) was Grammy-nominated, received an Editor's Choice in Gramophone and was a finalist in the contemporary category at the 2011 Gramophone Awards. Volume Seven (BRIDGE 9375) was chosen as Editor's Choice in the April 2012 issue of Gramophone and was awarded an IRR Outstanding in IRR's March issue."
Tracklisting
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Odense Symphony Orchestra; Flemming Dreisig; Leif Segerstam; Mi
Partch Ensemble
Gilbert Kalish; Timothy Eddy; Marcantonio Barone; Curtis Institute of Music Ensemble 20/21
The Orchestra Now
Robert Black; Scott Woolweaver; John McDonald
Justin Benavidez; Deloise Lima; Florida State University Wind Ensemble; Florda State University Win
Stuyvesant String Quartet
Romie de Guise-Langlois; Lark Quartet; James Austin Smith; Daedalus Quartet; Tony Arnold; Cygnus En
David Lively
Bill Hawkes & Shaun Lyon
Mahler Academy Orchestra; Philipp von Steinaecker
Various Artists
Yulianna Avdeeva
Simon Trpceski; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard
Plamena Nikitassova; Les Elemens
Patrick Him, Kirsten Docter, Shuai Want, John Diodati, Paul Vaillancourt, Catherine Ramirez, Jennet
