專輯類型: 1CD 發行年份: 2013 國際條碼: 7318590018736 音樂廠牌: BIS (瑞典)諾科平交響樂團 費德利克.烏仁 (鋼琴) 馬汀.布拉賓斯 (指揮) John Pickard (b.1963): Piano Concerto (1999–2000); Sea-Change for orchestra (1988–89); Tenebrae for orchestra (2008–09) Fredrik Ullen, piano Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins 'A born master of the orchestra' is how the British composer John Pickard was described when BBC Music Magazine reviewed a previous disc of his orchestral music, while Fanfare called it 'essential listening for lovers of modern music', finding the performances 'absolutely thrilling, emotionally involved and seamlessly evolved'. Given such reactions, it is not surprising that Pickard, Martyn Brabbins and the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra decided to continue their rewarding collaboration, with results that can be heard on the present disc. The three pieces included span three decades, and in his own liner notes to the disc, Pickard remarks that the programme gives an overall sense of his development as an orchestral composer: 'from the clear outlines of the early Sea-Change, with its indebtedness to the sound-world of several Nordic composers, through the colourful exuberance of the Piano Concerto, to the darkness and turbulence of Tenebrae.' Completed in 2009, Tenebrae takes as its starting point a fragment from Carlo Gesualdo's Tristis est anima mea (Sad is my soul) from the composer's settings for the Tenebrae services of Holy Week. The work is in itself a result of the earlier collaboration between Pickard and these performers; commissioned by the Norrkoping orchestra which gave it its premiere in 2010, it is dedicated to Martyn Brabbins. Joining the team on this disc is Fredrik Ullen, making his first recording with orchestra after a number of highly praised solo recitals. John Pickard's piano concerto has three movements, Toccata - Passacaglia - Fuga, forming a continuous span. During the course of the thirty minute-long work, three different basic relationships between soloist and orchestra are explored: dialogue, dominance and partnership, the latter illustrated in the closing double fugue, throughout which the soloist and the orchestra work together very much as a team. John Pickard Piano Concerto (1999–2000) 30'56 01 Toccata 9'00 02 Passacaglia 12'05 03 Fuga 9'51 04 Sea-Change for orchestra (1988–89) 17'11 05 Tenebrae for orchestra (2008–09)