This collection of recordings by conductor Christian Baldini, leading, for the most part, the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra in California, was not intended as a single album; the recordings were all made live, at different times, and were rediscovered by Baldini during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have not been cleaned up. One was made with a different group, the Munich Radio Orchestra, but coherence may be recognized as well as planned, and Baldini spotted it here. At the core of the program are two violin concertos, although ...
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This collection of recordings by conductor Christian Baldini, leading, for the most part, the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra in California, was not intended as a single album; the recordings were all made live, at different times, and were rediscovered by Baldini during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have not been cleaned up. One was made with a different group, the Munich Radio Orchestra, but coherence may be recognized as well as planned, and Baldini spotted it here. At the core of the program are two violin concertos, although only one is so designated, by Witold Lutoslawski (Chain 2) and György Ligeti. They make a fascinating pair, and they have apparently never been put together on recordings. Both composers are modernists of Eastern European origin, and both attempt to incorporate ideas from the past into essentially novel structures, contrasting free (and in Lutoslawski's case improvised) materials with more fixed procedures. Within these frameworks, the two works are entirely different in feel and...
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