Steve Elcock: Orchestral Works Volume Two

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Although Elcock’s distinctive musical universe sounds not quite like that of any other composer, there are influences from such diverse composers as Mahler, Simpson, Nielsen, Pettersson, and... — Fanfare, November 2020 More…

Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: TOCC0445
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 77 minutes

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Elcock: Incubus, Op. 28

Work length8:34

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Siberian Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Vasiliev

Elcock: Haven - Fantasia on a Theme of J. S. Bach, Op. 4

Work length24:56

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Andrey Lopatin (violin)
Siberian Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Vasiliev

Elcock: Symphony No. 5, Op. 21

Work length43:45

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Grigorii Vever (clarinet)
Siberian Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Vasiliev

I. Allegro - Lento - Moderato

Track length15:56

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II. Ostinato. Allegro

Track length6:24

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III. Canzonetta. Largo

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IV. Allegro

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This second volume of orchestral music by the English composer Steve Elcock (b. 1957), long since resident in France, brings three powerful works all with their origins in earlier pieces. Incubus examines the terrors of nightmare-riven sleep in a vigorous symphonic essay-based on a movement from Elcock’s string quartet Night after Night. The impulse behind Haven, an expansive and surprisingly muscular fantasy, is the Sarabanda theme from Bach’s First Partita for solo violin. And Elcock’s Fifth Symphony takes its cue from the most famous of all Fifth Symphonies, re-examining Beethoven’s structural logic in Elcock’s own musical language to produce a volcanic new Fifth, its charge of wild energy husbanded to maximum dramatic effect.

Steve Elcock’s music first drew attention after the release of his Third Symphony and the triptych Choses renversées par le temps ou la destruction on Toccata Classics (TOCC 0400), a Radio 3 recording of the week in October 2017. He has written six symphonies and other orchestral and chamber works, and another Toccata Classics album, a first volume of chamber pieces, released in

December 2018 (TOCC 0506), was described in Gramophone as ‘terrific music’.

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November 2020

Although Elcock’s distinctive musical universe sounds not quite like that of any other composer, there are influences from such diverse composers as Mahler, Simpson, Nielsen, Pettersson, and Shostakovich...Most enthusiastically recommended, including the compelling performances by the Siberian SO under the secure conducting of Dmitry Vasiliev. A strong Want List contender.

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