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破浪 葛雷絲·威廉士/巴采維琪/喬安娜·繆勒-赫爾曼:弦樂作品改編集
瑪琳·布羅曼 小提琴/指揮
(芬蘭)奧斯卓伯尼安室內管絃樂團
Evocative, moving and exciting works by three women composers
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
Malin Broman, leader and artistic director
Three works by three women composers from three different countries, each piece with its own original idiom, are performed here by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its dynamic conductor and artistic director Malin Broman. Three
works that assuredly deserve a wider audience!
The Sea Sketches by Welsh composer Grace Williams open the programme. Inspired by the beaches of Glamorganshire and by its seascape, this five-movement
work seems in constant motion and evolution. One can practically taste the salt spray and feel the power of the waves.
The second work is Grażyna Bacewicz’s Fourth String Quartet, played here in an arrangement for string orchestra. Bacewicz was an important figure on the Polish music scene in the mid-20th century, and her quartet is an approachable work – something that has
undoubtedly contributed to making it her best-known composition – with influences of folk music and passages which, according to Malin Broman, can only be described as heavenly.
Vienna-born Johanna Müller-Hermann’s String Quartet, also in an arrangement for string orchestra, concludes the programme. Exciting, beautiful and powerful, this
work with its post-romantic language is a testimony to the golden age of Vienna, when the music of Mahler, Strauss and her teacher Zemlinsky reigned supreme.
Grace Williams (1906—77)
1—5 ) Sea Sketches for string orchestra (1944) 17'28
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909—69) arr. Marijn van Prooijen
6—8 ) String Quartet No. 4 (1951) 22'25
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868—1941) arr. Ingvar Karkoff
9—12 ) String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 6 21'40
TT: 62'2112 |
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