Lawrence Power, one of today's foremost violists, is a fervent champion of contemporary music and has developed a large repertoire of new works by composers like Olga Neuwirth and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Brett Dean's "Voices of Angels" uses a quotation from Rainer Maria Rilke's First Duino Elegy as an epigraph, exploring themes of angels moving between the living and the dead.
Compositional Technique
Sofia Gubaidulina's "Meditation" incorporates numerical symbolism, using numbers derived from the letters of 'BACH' (14) and 'SOFIA' (48) to govern section lengths.
Compositional Technique
In Brett Dean's "Voices of Angels," the initial 'E' (for 'Engel,' German for angel) is a recurring motif, starting from the E above middle C and appearing throughout the piece.
Compositional Technique
Brett Dean's "Voices of Angels" is instrumented similarly to Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet, but explores very different musical territory.
Album & Artwork
The Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble was formed about forty years after the 1973 Norrmalmstorg bank hostage crisis, which gave rise to the term 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
Composition History
Sofia Gubaidulina's "Meditation über den Choral 'Vor Deinen Thron tret ich hiermit'" was commissioned by the Bach Society of Bremen in 1993.
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