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Piers Lane, The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein – Rubbra & Bliss: Piano Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:17:27 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Two very different takes on the romantic piano concerto, both equally successful. The Bliss – written in 1939 for the World’s Fair in New York – is extrovert, exuberant and virtuosic, the Rubbra a profound reflection on, and continuation of, the English pastoral tradition.
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The Orchestra Now, Orion Weiss & Leon Botstein – Piano Protagonists (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:57 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records
This new studio recording contains three works for piano and orchestra that virtuoso pianist Orion Weiss and conductor Leon Botstein first performed in concert at the Bard Music Festival. Together, the three works span almost a century of musical Romanticism and are as different from one another as the generations they represent. In each piece, the virtuoso genre becomes a means by which the composer responds to a specific source of inspiration — in the first case (Korngold), a performer and family friend who had suffered a horrendous tragedy, in the second (Rimsky Korsakov), a venerated old master, and in the third (Chopin) a melody from a beloved opera.
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The Orchestra Now, Michael Nagy & Leon Botstein – Buried Alive (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:30 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records
Conductor Leon Botstein has consistently offered the musical public some of the most innovative and fascinating programs to be found on today’s concert stage. This album combines three orchestral works written within during the years 1926-1928, featuring Othmar Schoeck’s stunning 45-minute song cycle for baritone, chorus and orchestra, “”Lebendig Begraben”” (Buried Alive), alongside Arthur Honegger’s wildly colorful “”Rugby”” and Dimitri Mitropoulos’s rarely heard “”Concerto Grosso. Leon Botstein is a Swiss-American Jewish conductor and scholar, and the president of Bard College. He is currently conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra where he served as music director and principal conductor from 2003-2010.
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