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Now Available! London Symphony Orchestra's Nazareno
Posted May 13, 2022
London Symphony Orchestra Releases Album of Works by Bernstein, Stravinsky, and Golijov
Out May 13, 2022
“It was like turning the clock back twenty years or more: a Simon Rattle concert that buzzed from the first note to the last, the programme bold and varied and every performance showed the works in their best possible light, and what’s more, everyone left the hall toe-tapping.”
– Chris Garlick, Bachtrack
Celebrating the union of classical and jazz,LSO Live’s latest release encapsulates the very best of the two genres with an irresistible selection of works by Bernstein, Stravinsky and Golijov, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Argentinian tango and jazz course through Golijov’s vibrant Nazareno. Superstar piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque are flanked by brass, percussion and cello in this special arrangement for two pianos and orchestra by Gonzalo Grau.
LSO Principal Clarinettist Chris Richards steps into the spotlight in Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto. The work is an era-defining amalgamation of jazz and classical, reflecting back the variety of a rapidly changing world, at turns frenetic and agitated, mournful and bluesy. This fluidity extends into Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs—an exuberant display of contrasting musical ideas, harmoniously intertwined together.