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Alexander Prior - Velesslavitsa: Concerto for piano, 2 violins & cello | Toccata Classics TOCC0109

Alexander Prior - Velesslavitsa: Concerto for piano, 2 violins & cello

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0109

Barcode: 5060113441096

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 23rd November 2009

Contents

Artists

Zhang Xiao Ming (piano)
Michael Province (violin)
Simone Preston (violin)
Nathan Chan (cello)
Northern Sinfonia

Conductor

Alexander Prior

Works

Prior, Alexander

Concerto for piano, 2 violins and cello 'Velesslavitsa'

Artists

Zhang Xiao Ming (piano)
Michael Province (violin)
Simone Preston (violin)
Nathan Chan (cello)
Northern Sinfonia

Conductor

Alexander Prior

About

In spring 2009, Channel 4 sent the sixteen-year-old British-Russian composer-conductor Alex Prior around the world: his task, to find ‘The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies’ for a TV series with that title and to compose a concerto for them, which Alex would conduct. The resulting work, Velesslavitsa (the title means ‘Glory to Veles’, the god of music in ancient Slav cultures), is steeped in the Russian Romantic tradition, with echoes especially of Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.

This live recording features the ten-year-old Chinese pianist Zhang Xiao Ming, the American violinists Simone Porter and Michael Province, twelve and thirteen respectively, and the fifteen-year American cellist Nathan Chan.

Press Reaction to the first performance of Velesslavitsa:
‘I promise that you won’t hear a more exciting, invigorating work of classical music anywhere.’ - Journal Alive 30/4/09

There is grandeur in its progress from darkness to light and a sense of growing unity as the four soloists become more closely intertwined with each other and the orchestra. It had a superb first performance and could put more than its composer on the musical map for a long time to come.’ - North East News 2/5/09

[…] a triumph. The concerto is an exhilarating, rip-roaring melodic noise […]. And the four young musicians […] rise to the occasion like seasoned professionals’ - The Times 21/6/09

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