The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Anthony Iannaccone: Looking Back, Moving On (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Anthony Iannaccone: Looking Back, Moving On (2023)
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Formed in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra, the company became the Scottish National Orchestra in 1950, and was awarded Royal Patronage in 1977.

Throughout its history, the Orchestra has played an integral part in Scotland’s musical life, including performing at the opening ceremony of the Scottish Parliament building in 2004. Many renowned conductors have contributed to its success, including George Szell, Sir John Barbirolli, Walter Susskind, Sir Alexander Gibson, Neeme Järvi, Walter Weller, Alexander Lazarev and Stéphane Denève.

The Orchestra’s artistic team is led by Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård, who was appointed RSNO Music Director in 2018, having previously held the position of Principal Guest Conductor. Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan succeeds Søndergård as Principal Guest Conductor.

The RSNO performs across Scotland, including concerts in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Perth and Inverness. The Orchestra appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms, and has made recent tours to the USA, China and Europe.

The music of composer Anthony Iannaccone could be classified, if one had to make a classification, as neo-Romantic, but really, he straddles the divide between modernist and neo-Romantic composition, with scores that are highly atmospheric but also rigorously constructed. This release offers a sampling of Iannaccone’s orchestral music that will inspire many listeners to look further. Consider the innocent-sounding Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound, where the intended pictorial content is clearly communicated, but in place of an impressionist haze, are little stabs of light deployed in entirely unexpected ways. The album includes two of Iannaccone’s symphonies; the three-movement Symphony No. 4 is an especially imposing contemporary orchestral work but also sample the shorter single-movement pieces. Consider the Concertante for clarinet and orchestra, which is strong enough to have brought the veteran clarinetist Richard Stoltzman out of what is presumably a reduced schedule in his ninth decade, and which gives an idea of the composer’s powers. The problems of reconciling the solo clarinet with an intensely turbulent orchestral part are substantial and are elegantly solved by Iannaccone here. There are a couple of orchestras involved, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic, each with its own conductor, and the album does not really make a sonic whole. However, it is worth it to have all this exciting music in one place. – James Manheim

Tracklist:
1-1. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Symphony No. 3 “Night Rivers” (20:24)
1-2. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – I. Bold Advance, Heavy Toll (12:22)
1-3. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – II. Imagination and Endurance (08:18)
1-4. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – III. Strong Steel Emblems Vault the Channel (05:43)
1-5. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound (12:12)
2-6. Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra – Concertante for Clarinet & Orchestra (15:38)
2-7. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – No. 1, Once Upon a Time (11:42)
2-8. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra – No. 2, Moving Time (04:06)

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