Brett Dean: new CD portrait including Viola Concerto

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Brett Dean: new CD portrait including Viola Concerto

(October 2008)

Brett Dean: new CD portrait including Viola Concerto

A new CD released by BIS (CD-1696) focuses on Brett Dean’s twin creative roles, as “a formidable and musical player as well as an impressive composer” (The Guardian). The central work is Dean’s Viola Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young and the composer playing the virtuosic solo part. Dean has already performed the concerto 17 times on four continents since its premiere in 2005.

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“The Viola Concerto is one of Dean’s most successful orchestral works, an asymmetrical, three-movement structure that pivots about a dark, central scherzo. Intimate Decisions, from 1996, is a wonderfully virtuosic solo piece that only someone with a deep knowledge of the viola could have composed. Twelve Angry Men, composed for the 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, is an instrumental drama inspired by Sidney Lumet’s famous film, while the miniature tone poem Komarov’s Fall was one of the pieces that Simon Rattle commissioned to accompany Holst’s The Planets. It all makes an excellent showcase of Dean’s range as a composer.”
The Guardian

“…imaginative reflection touching on the darkness of Berg, Shostakovich and late Beethoven, contrasted with energy vexed to nightmare by the modern world. A fine recording of a composer who continues to grow in stature.”
Sydney Morning Herald

Brett Dean’s Songs of Joy were premiered on 2 October with Simon Rattle conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and baritone Peter Coleman-Wright. The work sets texts by Amanda Holden and relates to Dean’s operatic adaptation of Peter Carey’s Bliss, to be unveiled in Sydney in 2010. Lars Vogt and the Ensemble Wien-Berlin is touring Dean’s Polysomnography for piano and wind quintet to the UK, Belgium, Germany and Austria in October, following its premiere at the Lucerne Festival.

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