Orchestra

Watch and listen to the complete recording on YouTubeSounds of Generation Y Part II was commissioned by Theater & Philharmonie Thüringen in 2018. Stylistically... Read more

An exciting and virtuosic showpiece composed for the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble which stems from the famous Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Giancarlo Castro D’Addona has realized in 2016 this transcription for symphony orchestra. Read more

A notable characteristic of this symphony is the addition of a saxophone quartet, which doesn’t mean that it is a jazz work or even less a concerto in which the four saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone) would be soloists. They exist and... Read more

The 4th Symphony is divided into four movements. I. Lento misterioso, Allegro
The first half of the work opens with an ostinato in the celli, in which an anxious, continually syncopated six-note motif develops toward a paroxysm of violence. The... Read more

The work, subtitled "For the Freedom of Mind and Thought," follows the concerto grosso model of the Baroque Era and features a small group, consisting of three violins, viola, and cello being employed as the concertino ensemble that is contrasted... Read more

The title, which translates as “to shout for joy’, reflects the generally celebratory mood of this short “mini-overture”. The work opens with a solemn “fanfare” by the solo trumpet. This theme, based on a tune appropriate to the occasion, is then... Read more

This Adagio was originally composed in 1991 and revised in 2009. It was written in memory of Rayburn Wright, a former teacher of mine at the Eastman School of Music, shortly after he passed away. The music is meant to convey both the sense of loss... Read more

"I, Jeremy, am sad at heart. There are no remedies to heal my sorrow..." This is the passage from "Jeremy's Lamentations" which has, in all humility, inspired me, the composer states, and his sound portrait is indeed strongly inspired by that... Read more

Weiter is a short work for orchestra that uses a single rhythmic motif as its main impulse. This motif (a series of eighth notes followed by eighth rests) propels the piece through its various sections. The word Weiter is used in many ways in... Read more

Georgi Mintchev wrote Contrasts at the request of Thomas Kalb, GMD of the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany),  for the 2003-2004 music season. A poetic and emotional, yet virtuosic piece where the dynamic and rhythmic content covers a wide... Read more

This string orchestra work was written to the memory of the author’s great grandfather, whose name was Otto N. Thorlaksson. He was a seaman, mostly working in very harsh circumstances on the old cutter-ships in the early years of the 20th century.... Read more

Frón means Iceland, and this work is based on fragments from Icelandic folk songs. The opening trumpet statement thus includes fragments from three of the oldest known Icelandic melodies and these are also the ones most frequently referred to in the... Read more

This short «Sinfonia à 6» in D (Allegro - Grave - Presto) for two horns, strings and b.c. (completed and edited by Kirill Karabits) displays the technical skills and creative musical imagination of Johann Gottlieb Graun. Until 1943 the original... Read more

The Chamber Symphony for strings is structured in a single movement. In writing this work the composer was inspired by the complex collisions of our difficult and contradictory time. The symphony is dedicated to the memory of Aram Khatchaturyan. Read more

This very melancholic piece opens with a melody made of “mourning colored” notes which pass from one instrument to another. Then the music becomes more and more luminous with the successive enrichment of the instrumentation. Read more

Birth...The beginning of an existence. Mystery. The first breath. Germs of life appear, synergies are created, networks generated. A life force develops, imposing itself jubilantly. Read more

About the movements of the suite «Le Temps» (The Time) Kronos… First I thought about a more peaceful sounding work with a title like «The Delights of Time». Then the piece changed slowly. A fast, dissonant sequence slipped into the middle of the... Read more

The title, with its "end of 19th c." connotation, indicates a rather contemplative and elegiac piece, in form of an arch, with an esthetic and syntax - tonal and modal - which places it slightly out of its time. Read more

This work is rather symptomatic of my composing manner: a string orchestra which I use in a most traditional way. No mute effect, no glissandi... The ideas, as well as the procedure of the work are classic. The first movement is an Allegro in Sonata... Read more

Promenade avec Jean-Jacques Rousseau plays with excerpts of the Devin du Village (1752), instrumented, arranged and composed for strings. Played for the king, in Fontainebleau in 1752,  Le Devin du Village [The Diviner of the Village] gained a... Read more