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Brincken - Orchestral Music Vol.1 | Toccata Classics TOCC0550

Brincken - Orchestral Music Vol.1

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0550

Barcode: 5060113445506

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 6th December 2019

Contents

Artists

Alexander Brincken (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Rainer Held

Works

Brincken, Alexander

Capriccio for piano and chamber orchestra
Symphony no.4 in G minor

Artists

Alexander Brincken (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Rainer Held

About

Alexander Brincken, born in Leningrad in 1952 and Swiss-based since 1992, writes in an accessible and unashamedly late-Romantic language. His grandiose Fourth Symphony of 2014–15, written for a huge orchestra, has echoes of a number of earlier composers, among them Berlioz, Bruckner, Martinů, Wagner and, especially, Franz Schmidt and Richard Strauss, all assimilated into a big-hearted style that blends dignity, lyricism and power, with a strong sense of the Swiss landscapes in which he has made his home. The earlier Capriccio for piano and orchestra – a concerto in all but name – has, in turn, something of the sober strength and wiry energy of Frank Martin – curiously, since it was written seven years before Brincken moved to Switzerland.

Rainer Held’s recent Sutermeister recording for Toccata Classics was a revelation, and here’s proof that he has not yet run out of symphonic surprises.

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