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Release Date: 27th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: BIS2255
Label: BIS
Length: 83 minutes

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Palumbo, V: Concerto barocco

Work length16:17

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Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Peter Olofsson (violin), Per Öman (violin), Åsa Wirdefeldt (violin), Tony Bauer (viola), Mats Olofsson (cello), Tomas Wahlund (double bass)
Recorded: March 2017
Recording Venue: Petruskyrkan, Stocksund, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length5:48

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II. Adagio

Track length4:34

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III. Vivacissimo

Track length5:55

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Palumbo, V: Cello Concerto

Work length37:34

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Mats Olofsson (cello)
Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín
Recorded: May 2016
Recording Venue: Gävle Concert Hall, Sweden

Track length13:29

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II.

Track length13:38

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III.

Track length10:27

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Palumbo, V: Recorder Concerto

Work length29:22

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Dan Laurin (recorder)
Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín

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The genesis of this disc was Dan Laurin’s idea to commission a concerto for recorder and symphony orchestra. He had performed a number of such works already, but felt that the new, more powerful ‘Eagle’ recorder developed by the maker Adriana Breukink could help with avoiding the usual problems with balance between soloist and orchestra. Having interested the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in the project, he then approached the Italian composer Vito Palumbo – and the ball was set in motion!

In 2013, after an intense collaboration between composer and soloist, the concerto was finished – a single movement almost thirty minutes long, and according to Laurin ‘by far the most difficult piece I have ever encountered’. The ‘Eagle Concerto’ is here coupled with two earlier concertante works by Palumbo, featuring Dan Laurin’s close chamber music partners, harpsichordist Anna Paradiso and cellist Mats Olofsson.

All three works differ greatly in style, forming a complex portrait of the composer. Palumbo himself describes the lightly scored Concerto Barocco as ‘a reappropriation of the baroque style’, while the large-scale Cello Concerto is intended as a tribute to Shostakovich. The Recorder Concerto, finally, is in the words of its creator ‘a large poetic fresco that to my mind is truly operatic’.

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