GD 160 SIMEON PIRONKOV - Compositions, STRING QUARTET No. 3
String Quartet No.3
Requiem for an Unknown Young Man
Entrata e Capriccio for solo cello
Kammersinfonie for 11 soloists
SOFIA SOLOISTS - Pl. DJOUROV, conductor
Mixed Ensemble - Simeon PIRONKOV - Junior, conductor
Issued: 1994
Style: Classical Music
Company: Gega New, GD160
Simeon PIRONKOV ranks among the most famous Bulgarian composers from the second half of the 20th century. His works in various genres are performed both at home and at prestigious musical festivals for contemporary music in Berlin, Warsaw, Zagreb, Budapest, etc. He is the author of compositions commissioned by full orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo performers. PironkovÂ’s style is characterized by exquisitely colored melody, flexibility of metre and rhythm influenced by the Bulgarian folk music, delicacy of orchestration and emotional variety, being the result of the sensitivity and richness of his inner world. The works selected for this release represent the evolution of the composer's style. Requiem for an Unknown Young Man is a landmark work in his creative biography, extensively performed by the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble. The solo cello sonata Entrata e capriccio is an original virtuoso improvisation with an excellent form, and the music of String Quartet No. 3 (premiered in 1986 in Berlin) is reserved, now tender, now melancholic, cut through by metro-rhythmical and melancholic accents. Most characteristic is Kammersinfonie for 11 soloists, composed in the USA, an expression of maturity and creative imagination.
Contents:
String quartet No. 3
• Allegro assai
• Lento
• Sostenuto
• "Requiem for unknoen man"
"Entrata e capriccio" for solo cello
• Introduction
• Capriccio
"Kammersinfonie" for 11 soloists
• Andantino e sostenuto
• Adagio
• Allegro
• Grave
• Allegro
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