Artist: Tigran Mansurian
Album: Quasi parlando
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2014
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:02:34
Total Tracks: 10
Total Size: 1,06 GB

Tracklist:

1. Tigran Mansurian – Double Concerto: I. Largo concentrando (13:09)
2. Tigran Mansurian – Double Concerto: II. Largo sostenuto (09:37)
3. Tigran Mansurian – Romance (09:24)
4. Tigran Mansurian – Quasi parlando (08:00)
5. Tigran Mansurian – Concerto No. 2 “Four Serious Songs”: I. Andante con moto (06:19)
6. Tigran Mansurian – Concerto No. 2 “Four Serious Songs”: II. Andante mosso, agitato (07:43)
7. Tigran Mansurian – Concerto No. 2 “Four Serious Songs”: III. Allegro vivace (01:08)
8. Tigran Mansurian – Concerto No. 2 “Four Serious Songs”: IV. Con moto, molto semplice (07:10)

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“Quasi Parlando” is an important addition to ECM’s documentation of the work of Tigran Mansurian, an often breathtaking account of highly original contemporary chamber orchestra music. Issued in the wake of his 75th birthday, the album opens with the Armenian composer’s fiercely-concentrated Double Concerto, and proceeds to new music performed by its dedicatees: the lyrical Romance, dedicated to Moldavian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and the intensely expressive Quasi Parlando, dedicated to German cellist Anja Lechner. Both are world premiere recordings, as is the Concerto No 2, subtitled Four Serious Songs, which concludes the programme. Throughout, the soloists deliver committed performances, as does the Amsterdam Sinfonietta under the direction of Candida Thompson.