Bernard Rands: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Music for Shoko: Aubade & Canti del Sole (2019)

Jonathan Biss (piano)
Stephen Chaundy (tenor)
Robert Walter (cor anglais)
Stephen Rose and Jeffrey Zehngut (violins),
Joanna Patterson Zakany (Viola),
Charles Bernard (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Markus Stenz
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/William Boughton
rec. 2014/18, BBC Promenade Concert;
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio, USA;
Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
LYRITA SRCD379 [61.56]

Bernard Rands, has over a hundred well-crafted scores of notable formal cohesion, dramatic intensity and lyrical beauty, one of his most important musical statements is rooted in the literature of ‘Canti del Sole (Songs of the Sun)’. Canti del Sole for tenor and orchestra describes a day’s progression from dawn to dusk through a continuous setting of fourteen poems about the sun. This release contains two other première recordings Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Music for Shoko: Aubade, dedicated to Bernard’s friend Shuoko Suzki.