José Serebrier - Composer & Conductor

 
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JOSE SEREBRIER
José Serebrier - Composer & Conductor
Sharon Bezaly, Alexandre Kantorow, Australian Chamber Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra José Serebrier, Richard Tognetti (conductors)

[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD ]

Release Date: Friday 31 January 2020

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An esteemed conductor who has worked with most of the major orchestras and made more than 300 recordings, José Serebrier is also a prolific composer. He became established at an early age with Leopold Stokowski giving the world première of his Symphony No. 1, when he was only 17 years old. He studied composition with Martinů and Copland, while also learning conducting from Doráti, Monteux and Stokowski, who named the 22-year old Serebrier his associate conductor. This dual career has flourished ever since, as demonstrated by this disc on which Serebrier conducts the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in some of his most recent works. These include the Symphonic BACH Variations for piano and orchestra in which Alexandre Kantorow, winner of the 2019 Tchaikovsky competition, shines in the solo part. Newly recorded material is combined with the previously released Flute Concerto - the only work on the disc not conducted by Serebrier himself - and two tango-inspired shorter pieces. For Serebrier, these and the recent Last Tango before Sunrise form a kind of return to his youth in Uruguay, where he was born.

"José Serebrier's concerto works are substantial and very fine indeed, and this whole disc has huge appeal to those interested in new music but are less enthusiastic about avant-garde extremes. Serebrier's idiom is punchy and uncompromising in its honesty, but it seeks to connect with its audience rather than to repel, and as you might expect from a skilled conductor the colourful orchestrations are both an education and a rousing entertainment." MusicWeb Feb 2020

Tracks:

Symphonic B A C H Variations, for piano and orchestra
Flute Concerto with Tango (2008)
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart