Gerhard: Leo - Gemini - Libra - Concerto for 8 - Neos: NEOS11110 - CD or download

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

their quick-witted brilliance and virtuoso writing are instantly attractive...Although it ideally needs a bit more affection than it gets from the rather straitlaced performances on this disc,... — The Guardian, 15th May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2014
Catalogue No: NEOS11110
Label: Neos
Length: 61 minutes

This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

Gerhard: Leo

Work length21:07

Album only

Collegium Novum Zürich
Peter Hirsch

Gerhard: Gemini

Work length12:30

$3.00

$3.85

Christopher Keller, Rahel Cunz

Gerhard: Libra

Work length16:36

$4.00

$5.15

Collegium Novum Zürich
Peter Hirsch

Gerhard: Concerto for 8

Work length10:59

$3.00

$3.85

Collegium Novum Zürich
Peter Hirsch

About
Reviews
Explore

About

One can occasionally puzzle over why some music of high quality is hardly noticed in musical life, only finding its way into the repertoire with difficulty, if at all, and this is case of the works of Roberto Gerhard.

The works recorded here were all composed during the 1960s. In them, one recognises a musical handwriting with roots in the classics of modernism; it succeeds in forming the kind of synthesis, so pronouncedly realised by Stravinsky, of methods schooled by Schönberg with concertante elements and a rhythmical and sonorous sententiousness. “Dodecaphonic, but human and even a bit divine” – as Frank Harders-Wuthenow entitled an essay dedicated to Gerhard.

Reviews

15th May 2014

their quick-witted brilliance and virtuoso writing are instantly attractive...Although it ideally needs a bit more affection than it gets from the rather straitlaced performances on this disc, the beauty and exuberance come across clearly.

Gerhard: Leo - Gemini - Libra - Concerto for 8

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue