Kurt Bertels; Flanders Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 28 August 2020
Label: Etcetera
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8711801016702
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Introducing the world’s first concertos for saxophone and orchestra by Paul Gilson (1865-1942).
Including two premiere recordings, saxophonist Kurt Bertels hopes not only to make the Belgian composer Paul Gilson’s works for saxophone and orchestra much better known but also to broaden the instrument’s standard repertoire with his CD Works for Saxophone and Orchestra by Paul Gilson.
In collaboration with Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Bertels endeavours to present these works in a historically informed manner, with the intention of linking the instrument to the movement for historically informed performance.
This CD is the artistic result of the doctoral research carried out by Kurt Bertels which focused on the context, performance practice and repertoire of the saxophone school that existed at the Royal Brussels Conservatory between 1867 and 1904 which led to the rediscovery of the autographs of Gilson’s Premier Concerto and Recitatif et Serenade.
The Brussels-born Paul Gilson composed two concertos for saxophone and orchestra — the first ever to be composed — in 1902; Gilson also reworked his Recitatif et Serenade
for cello and orchestra into a version for tenor saxophone in 1906. Gilson’s first saxophone concerto, on the other hand,
was only rediscovered after a long search.
Tracklisting
Yarno Missiaen
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Jiska Lambrecht (violin), Marco Sanna (piano)
Werner Van Mechelen, Sylvie Decramer
Keigo Mukawa
Gauguin Ensemble
Michel Strauss, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden
Elena Marangou, Yorgos Ziavras
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Vladimir Delman; Milan RAI Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Schippers; Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra
Johanna Domotor; Meesun Hong Coleman; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
