Beaser: Guitar Concerto

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The orchestral sound is big (though the orchestra itself isn’t large), confident and film-score vivid, and demands extraordinarily virtuosic playing from American master Eliot Fisk…Fisk’s tone... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: CKD528
Label: Linn
Length: 61 minutes

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Beaser: Guitar Concerto

Work length28:43

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Eliot Fisk, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier

I. Chains and Hammers

Track length11:40

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II. Tombeau

Track length9:25

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III. Phrygian Pick

Track length7:38

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Beaser: Notes on a Southern Sky

Work length12:10

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Eliot Fisk, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier

Beaser: Evening Prayer

Work length15:00

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier

Beaser: Ground O

Work length5:53

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier

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Conducting legend and José Serebrier, together with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performs the premiere recording of four works by contemporary American composer, Robert Beaser.

José Serebrier is one of the most recorded classical artists in history; he has received eight GRAMMY® wins and forty five GRAMMY® Award nominations including a Latin GRAMMY® nomination for his recording of Adler’s Sixth Symphony with the RSNO.

Two of the works, Notes on a Southern Sky and the Guitar Concerto, were written for guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, a noted pupil of Andrés Segovia, who performed the concerto alongside José Serebrier in 2015 and returns for this recording.Fisk describes them as ‘epic works of historical importance in the history of the guitar.’

Premiered by Fisk in New York in 2009, the Guitar Concerto is truly symphonic in scale with virtuoso passages that only a master could write; the variety of styles perfectly exploits Fisk's dazzling agility.

Evening Prayer is an orchestral tone poem demonstrating the melodic and harmonic beauty which characterises Beaser’s style.

Ground O is Beaser’s own orchestration of an earlier work written within a month of the events of September 11; its power to reflect the enormous sadness of this tragedy is unspeakably moving.

Guitarist Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire.

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August 2017

The orchestral sound is big (though the orchestra itself isn’t large), confident and film-score vivid, and demands extraordinarily virtuosic playing from American master Eliot Fisk…Fisk’s tone is snappy and metallic, wholly appropriate to the coruscating guitar figures. (There’s even hints of rock-guitar ‘shredding’).

August 2017

His music [is] accessible, emotionally direct and exciting. All four works have those qualities in abundance. But they are most pronounced in the Guitar Concerto, a thrilling, expansive composition brimming with terrific ideas. Performed here with Fisk’s fearless virtuosity and clearly inspired RSNO…[it is] an important contemporary contribution to the genre

Beaser: Guitar Concerto

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