Steve Elcock: Orchestral Music, Volume Four
Steve Elcock – UK-born (in 1957) but long since based in France – was recently hailed by a fellow composer in the American magazine Fanfare as ‘the greatest living symphonist’. All eleven of the symphonies he has composed to date are, in various ways, concerned with the large-scale accumulation and dissipation of tension, rather in the manner of the later Nielsen symphonies – the half-hour span of his Fourth Symphony also reconciling tonality and atonality in its wild and energetic arch. Elcock is fond of bringing popular elements into his music, and a folk-like dance duly animates his Viola Concerto. These major works are book-ended here by two big-hearted orchestral showpieces that could become audience favourites.
Paul Silverthorne, viola
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
- Hammering, Op. 15 (2005) (5:52)
Viola Concerto, Op. 29 (2017-18) (22:35)
- Tempo commodo – (4:04)
- Doppio movimento – (4:33)
- Largo – (7:48)
- Moderato – (0:24)
- Subito allegro molto – Un poco meno mosso – Allegro molto – Più allegro (5:46)
Symphony No. 4, A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time, Op. 19 (2012-13, rev. 2017) (36:38)
- Largo – (5:35)
- Allegro – (3:53)
- Letter G – (0:51)
- Letter H – (3:32)
- Allegro – (1:27)
- Largo – (9:36)
- Allegro – (5:37)
- Pesante – (1:18)
- Lento – (1:31)
- Allegro – (1:30)
- Largo (1:48)
Fermeture, Op. 38 (2020) (6:44)
- Allegro – (2:36)
- Un poco più mosso – (1:38)
- Tempo I (2:30)
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