Poul Ruders
Guitar Concertos & Solos
David Starobin, guitar
Classicstoday.com:
10/10 "Highest Rating"
"The long
and intimate collaboration between Poul Ruders, the brilliant composer, and
David Starobin, the splendid guitarist, (who also happens to be David Starobin,
the successful record executive--co-founder of Bridge Records)--has led to some
of the most challenging and original compositions in the modern guitar
repertory. Consider this a kind of "greatest hits" for the
modern classical guitar."
- Sequenza21.com
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Paganini Variations - Theme
Paganini Variations - Var.
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Poul Ruders
Guitar Concertos & Solos
David Starobin, guitar
Psalmodies (Guitar Concerto No. 1)
Etude and Ricercare
Chaconne
Paganini Variations (Guitar Concerto No. 2)
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Jan Wagner, conductor
Speculum Musicae
Donald Palma, conductor
BRIDGE 9136
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This disc compiles 4 award-winning recordings of works that Danish composer Poul
Ruders has written for the guitarist, David Starobin.
"Psalmodies" is an eleven movement ‘concerto-concert suite' that
begins that ends with movements for solo guitar, and displays a wide range of
emotions–from introspective to circus-like. Starobin and Speculum
Musicae's performance was named a Fanfare 'Best of Year'.
"Etude and Ricercare" is a sober 13 minute essay in pure polyphony.
Originally on BRIDGE 9057, the recording was a Gramophone "Editor's
Choice". "Chaconne" is a short meditative solo that was
originally on Starobin's "Newdance". Newdance won the 2000
"Indie" for "Best Solo CD of the Year" and a Grammy
nomination for "Best Solo Performance". "Paganini
Variations" (originally released on BRIDGE 9122) is a high-spirited
concerto based on Paganini's famous 24th Caprice. Given a 10-10
(highest rating) by ClassicsToday.com, critic David Hurwitz wrote: "Poul
Ruders' music is expressionistic in the best sense of the term: exciting,
extreme, violent, hallucinatory, and often strikingly beautiful–it grabs you
by the throat and never lets go. How guitarist David Starobin gets all of
those notes under his fingers is anyone's guess, but manage it he does.
It's an amazingly virtuosic display of supreme musicianship."
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