Poul Ruders Edition, Volume Four

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This disc combines two spectacular concert performances and two studio recordings of works by Danish composer Poul Ruders. The disc opens with a performance from Copenhagen of Ruders's brilliant tone poem, "Fairytale" for large orchestra, performed by Orkester Norden, conducted by the then twenty year old Swedish wunderkind, Stefan Solyom. "Fairytale" is based on a passage from one of Hans Christian Andersen's lesser known fairytales, "The Wind Tells about Waldemar Daae and his Daughters", a mighty allegory about the transitoriness of Life, and the inevitable victory of Death (alias the wind), whose scything ravaging is sublimely depicted by Andersen in these few, truly breathtaking lines: 'And Winter rushed, Winter and Summer they rushed, and they rush, like I rush, like the howling snow, the flurrying apple blossom, the scurrying foliage; rush! rush! The people too!' Next, the noted British composer/pianist, Thomas Ades, plays Ruders's dramatic "Piano Sonata No. 2" in a live performance from the Aldeburgh Festival. Duo piano team Quattro Mani and percussionist David Colson essay Ruders's granitic "De Profundis", and a newly re-mastered version of Ruders's thrilling "Concerto in Pieces", with Sir Andrew Davis leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra, brings this disc to a blazing conclusion.

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Poul Ruders Edition, Volume Four
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    Manufacturer: Bridge Records, Inc.
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000204BXK
    Release Date: 2004-05-01

    Tracks:

    1. Fairytale
    2. Piano Sonata No. 2 - Vivace e ritmico
    3. Piano Sonata No. 2 - Tempo di sarabande
    4. Piano Sonata No. 2 - Leggiero e elegante
    5. Piano Sonata No. 2 - Monumentale e senza espressione
    6. De Profundis
    7. Concerto in Pieces
    8. Concerto in Pieces
    9. Concerto in Pieces
    10. Concerto in Pieces
    11. Concerto in Pieces
    12. Concerto in Pieces
    13. Concerto in Pieces
    14. Concerto in Pieces
    15. Concerto in Pieces
    16. Concerto in Pieces

    Album Description

    This disc combines two spectacular concert performances and two studio recordings of works by Danish composer Poul Ruders. The disc opens with a performance from Copenhagen of Ruders's brilliant tone poem, "Fairytale" for large orchestra, performed by Orkester Norden, conducted by the then twenty year old Swedish wunderkind, Stefan Solyom. "Fairytale" is based on a passage from one of Hans Christian Andersen's lesser known fairytales, "The Wind Tells about Waldemar Daae and his Daughters", a mighty allegory about the transitoriness of Life, and the inevitable victory of Death (alias the wind), whose scything ravaging is sublimely depicted by Andersen in these few, truly breathtaking lines: 'And Winter rushed, Winter and Summer they rushed, and they rush, like I rush, like the howling snow, the flurrying apple blossom, the scurrying foliage; rush! rush! The people too!' Next, the noted British composer/pianist, Thomas Ades, plays Ruders's dramatic "Piano Sonata No. 2" in a live performance from the Aldeburgh Festival. Duo piano team Quattro Mani and percussionist David Colson essay Ruders's granitic "De Profundis", and a newly re-mastered version of Ruders's thrilling "Concerto in Pieces", with Sir Andrew Davis leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra, brings this disc to a blazing conclusion.

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