GD 204 GEORGI MINTCHEV - Compositions
"SentiMetal" Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Michael MULLER - violoncello
Radio Symphony Orchestra NOS (Holland)
Micha HAMEL - conductor
Symphonic Suite from the Ballet "Fahrenheit 451"
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen NATCHEV - conductor
Issued: 1996
Style: Classical Music
Company: Gega New, GD204
Georgi MINTCHEV is from the generation of composers who began composing at the beginning of the 70ies. This is when his first big opuses appear, like the oratorio Old-Bulgarian Chronicles, which placed him among the avant-garde composers in Bulgarian musical art. Since then he has earned international recognition and has won a number of national and international awards. He is an artist who has a great mastery of the mechanisms for grasping the attention of his audience, capable of inventing and keeping "the intrigue" in music, something that has always been one of his main concerns.
The compositions presented in this programme were created during the 90ies of the last century and illustrate the composer's sensitivity and confession. His messages to the public are emotional, especially as far as Fahrenheit 451 Symphonic Suite from the Ballet is concerned. The other work is SentiMetal Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, one of the composer's most outspokenly lyrical works. A little sentiment, a little metal, this is an explanation, characteristic of the author's paradoxical thinking and sense of humour. This work, commissioned by the Dutch Radio NOS expresses the author's evolution in style. The high quality of the recordings is another strong point of the CD - both of Michael Muller, violoncello and Radio Symphony Orchestra NOS (Holland), conductor Micha Hamel, and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Milen Natchev
Contents:
• SentiMetal - Concert for violoncello and orchestra
• Beatty
• Mildred
• Clarissa
• Montag
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