Anders Koppel - Works for Saxophone and Orchestra (2006)
Contemporary Classical | Dacapo | 2006 | 64:50 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Booklet | Various File Hosts | 369 MB
Benjamin Koppel, saxophone, Nicolae Moldoveanu, conductor, Odense Symphony Orchestra
Contemporary Classical | Dacapo | 2006 | 64:50 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Booklet | Various File Hosts | 369 MB
Benjamin Koppel, saxophone, Nicolae Moldoveanu, conductor, Odense Symphony Orchestra
Anders Koppel (b. 1947) is to a rare degree a composer of his time. With one foot firmly planted in the classical European musical tradition and the other in world music, rock and jazz, Anders Koppel's career as a composer can be seen as one long continuous mission to unite these cultures in a contemporary musical idiom. This has resulted in a long succession of original works, all bearing the mark of a special ability to communicate emotions and energy, powerfully and straightforwardly, between musicians and audience.The saxophone is one of the instruments that Anders Koppel has composed for most often. One explanation of this is that the saxophone, by virtue of its unusually wide acoustic and dynamic range, is the perfect vehicle for Anders Koppel's expansive musical language. The sound of the saxophone can modulate from the most refined and transparent to the downright aggressive and raw. Both extremes are represented in Anders Koppel's musical aesthetic. And just as the saxophone has a special ability to move freely between the classical and the rock/jazz tradition, Anders Koppel's music is capable of pointing out new musical paths among the usual genres - a quality also familiar from Gershwin's music. Another explanation of the saxophone's prominent position in Anders Koppel's oeuvre is that since the beginning of the 1990s he has had a close artistic collaboration with his son Benjamin Koppel, who is one of the most wide-ranging Danish saxophonists today. Both of Anders Koppel's two saxophone concertos were written for Benjamin Koppel, and exploit his ability to alternate uninhibitedly between virtuoso passages in a rigorously composed sequence and original, imaginative improvisations.
I have to admit it was my guilty pleasure to listen to this (just check out the last piece called Swan Song) and two other of Koppel's CDs (to be shared later) in the last few months. I have a soft spot for Koppel's beautiful saxophone writing that while stemming from long jazz tradition seems to trenscend both jazz and classical spheres and inhabit a world of its own. Anders Koppel is a brother of late Thomas Koppel, whose Moonchild's Dream I shared earlier.
Contents:
Concerto No. 1 for Saxophone and Orchestra (1992, rev. 2004) [29:58]
Concerto No. 2 for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra (2003) [31:27]
Swan Song (1987, rev. 2005) [3:30]
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9 | 61:28.41 | 3:30.55 | 276641 | 292445
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Read more about Anders Koppel here.
Read more about the CD here.
3% recovery record is included.
Of related interest:
Thomas Koppel - Los Angeles Street Concerto (2006) Link
More contemporary American and European music is available at my blog.