A tribute to inwardness, patience and beauty.' This is how the Danish composer Poul Ruders (b. 1949) described his Viola Concerto from 1994. The music has an almost Late Romantic expressive style and is played with rich, many-faceted feeling by the Norwegian viola virtuoso Lars Anders Tomter. In his Handel Variations (2009) Poul Ruders has composed no fewer than 90 variations on eight bars from Handel's Water Music. The short variations grow together into a symphonic totality where the orchestral colours are constantly shifting and where Handel's starting point develops into pure Ruders.
Tomter is a hugely experienced, fully rounded player…But this is a concerto with orchestra, and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, expertly directed by Marc Soustrot, relish the warmth of Ruders’s at times late-Bergian orchestration…The music is always Ruders’s own, with a strong element of parody throughout, although the work’s conclusion is subdued, almost melancholic. Dacapo’s sound is vivid with terrific depth.
Works Ruders: Handel Variations Ruders: Viola Concerto Conductors Soustrot, Marc Groups & Artists Aarhus Symphony Orchestra Tomter, Lars Anders
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