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Updated Site: New CD Release, "Double Mirror" by Friedrich Lips - Russia/Austriaby Harley Jones |
New CD release, Catalog CD030 "Double Mirror" composed by Efrem Podgaits, performed by Friedrich Lips with Alexander Buzlov (cello) and the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev has been long awaited. This live recording in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on October 4th, 2018, received 1st prize at the international competition “Pure Sound“ for the best audio recording of works of Russian academic music in 2019. Recording engineer: Victor Osadchev. Efrem Podgaits writes “The Double Mirror“ concerto for cello, bayan and orchestra was written at the request of my friend Friedrich Lips, the outstanding bayanist. The epigraph to the composition are lines from the novel Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans): “Like a double mirror, the Soul will give birth to rows of beautiful reflections, extending them forward and backward“. “Double Mirror“ is a one-part composition in the center of which there are two heroes: a bayan and a cello...... Tracks list below. Sound samples, further information and to purchase online: Catalog CD030 |