The composer Arnold Griller (b. 1937), son of the violinist Sidney Griller, grew up in London, surrounded by some of the world's best-known musicians. In spite of this propitious beginning to his career, his considerable output remains largely unknown. This second volume of orchestral pieces presents four major works, one of them Griller's only symphony. His music is highly individual: it absorbs a number of disparate influences, not least Milhaud (his main teacher) and late Stravinsky, shows an occasional touch of the surreal and the bizarre, and infuses the result with radiant lyricism, edgy humor and restless energy. The career of Alexander Walker has taken him all over the world. His pioneering recordings for Naxos have been of music by Havergal Brian and Ignaz Waghalter. He works regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and has toured with the Royal Ballet to the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters in Russia and throughout the USA. Emin Martirosian, born in Yerevan in 1987, graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire in 2011 as both cellist and pianist. Since 2001 he has toured actively, both in Russia and abroad: the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Moldova, Switzerland, Turkey, and elsewhere.

Tracklist:

Scherzoid
Symphony: I. With Uncertainty - Resolutely
Symphony: II. Playfully - With Agitation - With Uncertainty
Symphony: III. Più Mosso
Symphony: IV. Meno Mosso - Exuberantly
Symphony: V. Searchingly
Symphony: VI. Presto, Frenzied
Symphony: VII. Calmo
Introduction, Cakewalk And Allegro For Piano & Orchestra: I. Introduction
Introduction, Cakewalk And Allegro For Piano & Orchestra: II. Cakewalk
Introduction, Cakewalk And Allegro For Piano & Orchestra: III. Allegro
Rhapsody Concertante: I. Quarter Note = 168
Rhapsody Concertante: II. Quarter Note = 120
Rhapsody Concertante: III. Quarter Note = 132
Rhapsody Concertante: IV. Quarter Note = 144
Rhapsody Concertante: V. Half Note = 108

UPC: 5060113444608
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 10.5.18
Format: CD

Griller / Musica Viva Symphony Orchestra - Orchestral Music 2 (CD)