From a mood of wild abandon to the mysteries of the spirit, this concert swings to the extremes.
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In Dvorák’s noisily exuberant Carnival Overture, night-time revellers vent their feelings in songs and dances. Ross Edwards’ dancing-chanting violin concerto veers between deep introspection and ecstatic rhythms, and it has an irrepressible impulse to dance that’s made it a winner with audiences all over the world.
But for philosophy, euphoria and a dizzying vision of music, no one can beat Scriabin, the Russian mystic. His Divine Poem is no mere symphony – it’s a revelation of the pleasures of the physical senses and the joys of “untrammelled existence”.
DVORÁK Carnival Overture
EDWARDS Maninyas – Violin Concerto
SCRIABIN The Divine Poem (Symphony No.3)
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
Dene Olding violin
AUDIO PLAYER LISTING
Track 1 – DVORÁK Carnival Overture
Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta
DECCA 476 9907
Track 2 – EDWARDS Maninyas – Violin Concerto
Dene Olding, violin, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stuart Challender
ABC CLASSICS 438 6102
Tracks 3 and 4 – SCRIABIN Divine Poem (Symphony No.3)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
DECCA 460 2992
Audio kindly supplied by Universal Music
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