Charles Wuorinen: Eighth Symphony & Fourth Piano Concerto

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Wuorinen’s rugged atonality is challenging, yet the more I listen to these splendid scores, the more I’m won over by the richness of the music. — MusicWeb International, 25th November 2016 More…

Release Date: 14th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: BRIDGE9474
Label: Bridge
Length: 59 minutes

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Wuorinen: Symphony No. 8 "Theologoumena"

Work length32:12

$7.00

$9.05

Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine

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Track length9:47

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$2.60

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Track length16:00

$4.00

$5.15

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Track length6:25

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$1.30

Wuorinen: Piano Concerto No. 4

Work length27:25

$7.00

$9.05

Peter Serkin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine

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Track length11:26

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$3.85

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Track length8:44

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$2.60

III. —

Track length7:15

$2.00

$2.60

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In 2004, James Levine became music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine immediately began to commission major new works from leading American composers, including the two works recorded here. Wuorinen's Fourth Piano Concerto, written for the BSO, James Levine, and longtime Wuorinen collaborator Peter Serkin, was one of the first of the BSO commissions Levine conducted with the orchestra, in 2005. This was followed two years later by the Eighth Symphony (Theologoumena), a BSO 125th anniversary commission premiered under Levine's direction in 2007. These spectacular recordings document the premiere performances of both of these works.

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25th November 2016

Wuorinen’s rugged atonality is challenging, yet the more I listen to these splendid scores, the more I’m won over by the richness of the music.

23rd October 2016

Wuorinen is the daunting doyen of American serialist composers: prolific, uncompromising, intellectual...the Eighth Symphony is marked by explosive virtuosity, while the Fourth Piano Concerto, written for Serkin, ventures in its thorny fashion a lyric solo line.

27th October 2016

Serkin’s playing is consummately authoritative.

December 2016

The symphony is marked by explosive virtuosity, the concerto by thorny lyricism.

Classical Ear January 2017

[the Eighth Symphony] teems with an often combustible energy in its quest to find accommodation between ancient classical belief systems and Christian monotheism. Wuorinen is helped enormously by the strident advocacy of the Boston players under his long-time champion James Levine…[the Fourth Piano Concerto] displays its kinship with the symphony in music that is, by turns, concrete-hard and severe and magically poetic with an edge of fantasy

Charles Wuorinen: Eighth Symphony & Fourth Piano Concerto

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