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This recording presents the double concerto for violin, cello and orchestra of the Spanish composer Francisco Coll, born in 1985. Les Plaisirs Illuminés, a title inspired by Dalí’s painting of the same name, is rooted in Spanish traditions, including flamenco, yet is resolutely modern: ‘Its music is very lively rhythmically, it dances and sings – but at the same time it is very abrupt, always in search of extremes’, says Patricia Kopatchinskaja. For this world premiere conducted by the composer, she is reunited with a longstanding partner who pursues an equally brilliant international career, the cellist Sol Gabetta. The programme also features the Musica concertante for twelve strings by the Hungarian-born Swiss composer Sándor Veress, premiered by the Camerata in Bern in 1966. A year earlier, the Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera wrote his fascinating Concerto for Strings. A kaleidoscope of colours and sounds from all over the world...
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Reviews
Assorted Programs category – Nominee
International Classical Music Awards 2022
Winner of Concerto category
BBC Music magazine Awards 2022
Nominee in the Contemporary category
Gramophone Awards 2021
"... this is a thrilling disc, demanding and somewhat draining both physically and emotionally, but it makes a strong case for these lesser-known works in performances that frankly couldn't be much more dramatic. Recorded sound is appropriately close and detailed."
David Kettle – The Strad – March 2021
***** Coup de Cœur
Jeremie Bigorie - Classica (France) – March 2021
Concerto Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
“…Camerata Bern’s performances come across with fiery spirit …”
John Allison – BBC Music magazine – March 2021
*****
Uwe Krusch – Pizzicato.com.lu – 8 January 2021
“Though the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja naturally takes centre stage in this thoughtfully constructed collection, the disc is as much a portrait of the remarkable Camerata Bern as it is another showcase for Kopatchinskaja’s dazzling virtuosity… both string works [Veress/Coll] are played with remarkable finesse and precision, without a conductor. Coll’s concerto is an expansion of a two-movement piece for violin and cello, and borrows its title from a painting by Salvador Dalí. The musical imagery in the fast-slow-fast-slow scheme certainly conveys the heightened, almost grotesquely vivid immediacy of surrealism, with the two solo instruments often pushed to their expressive and technical extremes. Sol Gabetta is the cello soloist, and her partnership with Kopatchinskaja is very much one of equals, with each seeming to push the other on to even more brilliance…” ****
Andrew Clements – The Guardian – 14 January 2021
Editor’s Choice – Orchestral
Tim Ashley – Gramophone magazine – January 2021
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