Oliver Triendl, Isabelle van Keulen - Frid: Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto & Inventions (2019) [24/48]

With his opera The Diary of Anne Frank (1968/69), by virtue of the subject alone Grigory Frid could be sure of attracting attention beyond the borders of Russia. The remaining enormous oeuvre by the composer, covering mainly instrumental works, songs, radio and film music, still remains to be discovered and treated in depth. Both prior to and after the collapse of the Communist USSR, Frid was awarded the highest honours, e.g. the title of Artist of Merit (1986) and the Moscow Prize (1996). If it is probably not erroneous to view Frids aesthetic position in a propinquity to Dmitri Shostakovich, on the one hand, and in the environment of his contemporaries a generation younger such as Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke. As in the cases of these composers, Frids music is also positioned in a field of tension between following the great Russian tradition and the quest for possibilities of expression in keeping with new, modern and international trends.

Tracklist:
01. Double Concerto for Viola, Piano & String Orchestra, Op. 73: I. Lento
02. Double Concerto for Viola, Piano & String Orchestra, Op. 73: II. Allegro moderato
03. Double Concerto for Viola, Piano & String Orchestra, Op. 73: III. Sostenuto
04. Symphony No. 3 for Timpanis & String Orchestra, Op. 50: I. Allegro
05. Symphony No. 3 for Timpanis & String Orchestra, Op. 50: II. Lento
06. Symphony No. 3 for Timpanis & String Orchestra, Op. 50: III. Allegro energico
07. 2 Inventions, Op. 46a: No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor

Personnel:
Isabelle van Keulen, violin
Oliver Triendl, piano
Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt
Ruben Gazarian, conductor