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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelToccata, Tcct
UPC5060113445506
eBay Product ID (ePID)18046053996
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2020
GenreClassical Artists
ArtistBrincken / Royal Scottish National Orch
Release TitleOrchestral Music 1
Dimensions
Item Height0.39 in
Item Weight0.23 lb
Item Length5.61 in
Item Width4.91 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Number of Discs1
NotesAlexander Brincken, born in Leningrad in 1952 and Swiss-based since 1992, writes in an accessible and unashamedly late-Romantic language. His grandiose Fourth Symphony of 2014-15, written for a huge orchestra, has echoes of a number of earlier composers, among them Berlioz, Bruckner, Martinu, Wagner and, especially, Franz Schmidt and Richard Strauss, all assimilated into a big-hearted style that blends dignity, lyricism and power, with a strong sense of the Swiss landscapes in which he has made his home. The earlier Capriccio for piano and orchestra - a concerto in all but name - has, in turn, something of the sober strength and wiry energy of Frank Martin - curiously, since it was written seven years before Brincken moved to Switzerland. Rainer Held's recent Sutermeister recording for Toccata Classics was a revelation, and here's proof that he has not yet run out of symphonic surprises.