Entangled Tales by Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Het Gelders Orkest / Residentie Orkest The Hague

Robin de Raaff

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Het Gelders Orkest / Residentie Orkest The Hague

Entangled Tales

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917274721
Catnr: CC 72747
Release date: 10 March 2017
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Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917274721

Catalogue number
CC 72747

Release date
10 March 2017

"I recommend the Entangled Tales CD for anyone wantlng an introduction to this signlficant 21st -century compositlonal voice."

The Whole Note, 01-2-2018

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This cello concerto is a miracle, both for the listener and for the soloist. The listener is swept along through unexplored terrain. The instrumentation stands out - even for a master like Robin. For a cello, Robin's concerto is innovative and challenging from a technical point of view. The premiere with Yannick and the orchestra was like a celebration - you can hear it. New work only reveals its secrets after a lot of listening, so it is fantastic that this recording is being made. In the summer of 2007, Robin de Raaff wrote Entangled Tales for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Entangled Tales is built up of several layers. It is a continual variation of small elements: rhythms, brief melodies, and ever-changing sounds in the rich palette of a large symphony orchestra. He does not hesitate to use an opulent instrumentation in impressionist and expressionist sphere. For the occasion of its 125th anniversary in 2015, the Het Gelders Orkest asked Robin de Raaff to write a speci

Drie maal Robin de Raaff
Op dit album zijn drie bijzondere werken van Robin de Raaff te horen; zijn Cello Concert, Entangled Tales en zijn Derde Symfonie. Over het Cello Concert verlelt celliste Marien van Stalen dat het concert een 'mirakel' is, zowel voor de luisteraar als de solist. 'De luisteraar wordt door onontgonnen terrein gesleepd. De instrumentatie is opvallend, zelfs voor een meester als Robin en voor de cellist is de partij zowel zeer innovatief als uitdagend wat betreft de speeltechniek. De premiere met Yannick [Nézet-Séguin] was als een feest, dat kun je horen. Nieuw werk onthult zijn geheimen vaak pas na veel luisteren, dus het is fantastisch dat er nu een opname van gemaakt is.'

Entangled Tales was geschreven in de zomer van 2007 voor het Boston Symphony Orchestra. Het werk bestaat uit meerdere lagen. Het is een continue variatie van kleine elementen: ritmes, korte melodieën, and alsmaar veranderende klanken in het rijke palet van een groot symfonie-orkest. Raaff twijfelt niet om voor een weelderige instrumentatie te kiezen die zowel binnen een impressionistische als een expressionistische sfeer past.

Ter gelegenheid van het 125-jarig jubileum van het Gelders Orkest was Robin de Raaff gevraagd om een speciaal werk te componeren. Het resultaat is een symfonie van drie delen waarin het thema 'donker en licht' centraal staat. Daar wordt naar verwezen met de titel Illumination...Eclipse. Deze woorden verwijzen niet een staat van zijn, maar naar beweging. Het gaat niet over donker en licht zijn, maar naar de verlichting en de verduistering.

Robin de Raaff wurde am 5. Dezember 1968 im niederländischen Breda geboren. Er wuchs in einer sehr musikalischen Familie auf, wo klassische wie Pop-Musik an der Tagesordnung waren. 1999 erhielt de Raaff das besondere Privileg, als George Benjamins einziger Kompositionsstudent am Royal College of Music in London zu arbeiten.

Marien van Staalen über das Cellokonzert: Dieses Cellokonzert ist ein Wunder, sowohl für den Hörer als auch für den Solisten. Der Hörer wird mitgerissen durch unerforschtes Terrain. Die Instrumentierung fällt auf – selbst für einen Meister wie Robin. Für einen Cellisten ist Robins Konzert aus technischer Sicht innovativ und herausfordernd. Die Premiere mit Yannick und dem Orchester war wie eine Feier – das kann man hören. Ein neues Werk enthüllt sein Geheimnis erst nach viel Hören, darum ist es phantastisch, dass diese Aufnahme gemacht wurde.

Entagled Tales: Im Sommer 2007 schrieb Robin de Raaff Entangled Tales für das Boston Symphony Orchestra. Das Stück ist aus verschiedenen Schichten aufgebaut. Es ist eine kontinuierliche Variation kleiner Elemente: Rhythmen, kurzen Melodien und sich beständig verändernden Klängen im reichhaltigen Tonspektrum eines großen Symphonieorchesters. Er zögert nicht, opulente Instrumentierung zu nutzen und in impressionistische und expressionistische Sphären vorzudringen.

Symphonie Nr.. 3: Anlässlich des 125. Jubiläums beauftragte Het Gelders Orkest Robin de Raaff 2015 mit einer besonderen Komposition. Das Ergebnis ist eine Symphonie in drei Sätzen, basierend auf dem Konzept von Hell und Dunkel, hier Illumination und Finsternis genannt. Diese Worte deuten nicht auf einen Zustand hin, sondern auf Bewegung. Es geht nicht nur um Stadien – hell und dunkel – sondern eben auch um die Bewegung: Erleuchtung und Verdunkelung.

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Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra

Motivated by musical ambition, inspired by their public and bonded with their surroundings. That is Het Gelders Orkest! They share their passion for classical music with people from all ages in Gelderland and abroad. They make populair and less populair works and they make music with world famous solists, young top talents and big guest conducters. Their musicians grow and shine in the direction of chef-conducter Antonella Manacorda. He can make as a young 'old soul' the emotions melt with the orchestra like no one else can. Het Gelders Orkest want totouch as many as they can. Beside of organising symphonic concerts they have a bright scala of alternative musical meetings and adventural cross-overs, in the form of kidsconcerts, education-...

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Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

The Rotterdam Philharmonic is a modern orchestra which has its roots deep in the classical music tradition. It embodies the temperament of its home base, Rotterdam. Experts say that it distinguishes itself by the intensity of its concerts, the rich variety of its sound and the bold way in which it communicates with its audiences. This is enjoyed by many Rotterdam residents and visitors from far and wide. The orchestra also enjoys success on the world’s major stages. Critics are unanimous: this orchestra, together with its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, is among the best in the world.

The Rotterdam Philharmonic is a modern orchestra which has its roots deep in the classical music tradition. It embodies the temperament of its home base, Rotterdam.

Experts say that it distinguishes itself by the intensity of its concerts, the rich variety of its sound and the bold way in which it communicates with its audiences. This is enjoyed by many Rotterdam residents and visitors from far and wide.
The orchestra also enjoys success on the world’s major stages. Critics are unanimous: this orchestra, together with its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, is among the best in the world.

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Residentie Orkest The Hague

Residentie Orkest The Hague proves that even in the 21st century, symphonic music can still be meaningful to large and diverse audiences. Its reputation as one of the finest orchestras in Europe makes it an appropriate figurehead for The Hague as a cosmopolitan city of justice, peace, and culture. The orchestra performs concert series in the Zuiderstrandtheater in Scheveningen and in addition performs at venues such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg Utrecht and De Doelen in Rotterdam. Special crossover and innovative productions are also provided at The Hague’s prominent pop venue Paard van Troje throughout the season. The Residentie Orkest performs regularly at various other major concert halls abroad. Tours have brought the orchestra to New York, Boston, Chicago, London and Vienna amongst others and the orchestra also performed in countries like Japan, China, Germany, France and South America. There are also many prolific collaborations with a wide range of partners, including the Dutch National Theatre, Gemeentemuseum and the Dutch National Opera. Recent seasons have seen a much acclaimed production of Messiaen’s rarely performed opera Saint François d’Asisse and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.

A rich history Since its first concert in 1904, the Residentie Orkest has developed into one of the prominent symphony orchestras of The Netherlands. Founded by Dr Henri Viotta, who was also its first principal conductor, it quickly attracted composers like Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Max Reger, Maurice Ravel, Paul Hindemith and Vincent d’Indy. Guest conductors included Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein and Hans Knappertsbusch.

After World War II, Willem van Otterloo was appointed chief conductor. He led the orchestra from 1949 to 1973 and built a strong reputation by combining high-quality performances with adventurous programming. Van Otterloo was succeeded by Jean Martinon, Ferdinand Leitner, Hans Vonk, Evgenii Svetlanov, Jaap van Zweden and Neeme Järvi.

Chief conductor Starting season 2018/2019 Nicholas Collon is chief conductor and artistic advisor of the Residentie Orkest. Richard Egarr will join the orchestra as principal guest conductor in 2019. Until the summer of 2019 Jan Willem de Vriend will act as principal conductor.

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Neeme Järvi (conductor)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

By the time the Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin made his European debut in 2004, he had already founded his own professional orchestra and vocal ensemble, La Chapelle de Montréal, going on to conduct all the major ensembles in Canada.
In 2018, he completed his engagement with the Rotterdam Philharmonic for whom he'll stay Honorary Conductor, and became Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, remaining in post with The Philadelphia Orchestra, until at least summer 2026. In 2019, he was appointed as Chief Conductor for life of the Orchestre Métroplitain of Montreal.
Yannick has worked with many leading European ensembles and enjoys close collaborations with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Bayerischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester and Chamber Orchestra of Europe; between 2008 and 2014 he was also Principal Guest Conductor of London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared three times at the BBC Proms and at many European festivals, among them Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg and Grafenegg (Vienna). With the Philadelphia Orchestra, he goes regulaly to Carnegie Hall. He also conducts master classes, notably at two of the most renowned institutions, the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia and the Julliard School of New York.
Yannick is equally comfortable in the pit and on the concert podium. After doing his first opera conducting experiences for the Opéra de Montréal from 2000 to 2004, in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Le Barbier de Séville, Cosi fan tutte, Pelléas et Mélisande and L'Elisir d'amore, he returned once in a while for Wozzeck, Madame Butterfly, Salomé and Elektra. In the 2009/10 season, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut with their new production of Carmen; since then, he has returned each season to conduct Don Carlo, Faust, La Traviata, Rusalka, Otello, Der fliegende Hollander, Parsifal and Elektra before he was named Music Director beginning with the season 2018-2019.

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Antonello Manacorda (conductor)

Antonello Manacorda is currently Artistic Director of Kammerakademie Potsdam, a position he has held since 2010. He has been Principal Conductor of the Het Gelders Orkest in the Netherlands since 2011 – a position he bids farewell to in the 2018-19 season. He was Principal Conductor of I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan from 2006-10. In addition to his two current positions, Manacorda also has guest conducting relationships which include the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and the Tapiola Sinfonietta. He has also worked with a number of other orchestras including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Sydney Symphony. In January 2015 Antonello Manacorda made his debut at the Salzburg Mozartwoche with the Mozarteumorchester...

In addition to his two current positions, Manacorda also has guest conducting relationships which include the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and the Tapiola Sinfonietta. He has also worked with a number of other orchestras including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Sydney Symphony.

In January 2015 Antonello Manacorda made his debut at the Salzburg Mozartwoche with the Mozarteumorchester in a performance of Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella followed by an appearance at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a programme of Strauss and Stravinsky. In February 2014 he conducted a Beethoven Cycle over four consecutive days in Potsdam with Kammerakademie Potsdam, while in April he conducted a performance of Mendelssohn’s complete Midsummer Night’s Dream which was broadcast live from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Manacorda is currently engaged in recording a Schubert Symphony cycle for Sony Classical with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. The recordings have been met with high praise, including one being listed in Die Welt’s top ten CDs of 2013. He has also recently recorded a CD of Mahler’s 4th Symphony with Het Gelders Orkest and soprano Lisa Larsson, which was released in November 2014 by Challenge Records.

With a strong experience in opera as well as symphonic repertoire, in December 2014 Manacorda conducted Kammerakademie Potsdam’s Winter Opera production of Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata to great critical acclaim. He also has a long-standing relationship with Teatro La Fenice, and the director Damiano Michieletto, and will be returning to La Fenice in November 2015 to conduct The Magic Flute. Future opera collaborations include La Monnaie, Theater an der Wien, Komische Oper Berlin and Frankfurt Opera.

A founder-member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Antonello Manacorda was its vice-president and concertmaster for eight years. A scholarship from De Sono in his home town of Turin allowed him to pursue his goal of becoming a conductor by enabling him to study with Jorma Panula for two years in Helsinki. From 2003-06 he was Artistic Director for chamber music at the Académie Européenne de Musique du Festival d’Aix en Provence.

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Composer(s)

Robin de Raaff

Robin de Raaff was born on December 5, 1968 in Breda, the Netherlands. He was raised in a very musical family where classical music and popular music were part of his daily life. As a child he received weekly piano lessons from his father and practised daily. De Raaff discovered his own musical world through playing the bass guitar, which he taught himself to play. As a teenager, under the explosive influence of fretless bass guitar legend Jaco Pastorius, De Raaff switched to fretless bass guitar, introducing him to a new world of complex instrumental music, and ultimately Jazz.
But even more passionately, already as a young teenager, composing his own music was his most important musical expression. Starting with pop songs, with ever increasing instrumental parts, larger symphonic proportions were soon imposed which inevitably lead him towards the great classical composers. Inspired by this newly discovered music De Raaff developed a musical style for symphony orchestra installing the necessity to compose in full score. After enrolling as a composition student at the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam, playing the bass guitar moved to the background, but his very broad musical interest would greatly influence his view on style in contemporary Classical music.
De Raaff first studied composition with Geert van Keulen and later with Theo Loevendie, with whom he graduated cum laude in 1997. In 1999 De Raaff had the special privilege of being invited to work as George Benjamin’s only composition student at the Royal College of Music in London where he also studied with Julian Anderson.
Since 2001 De Raaff has been a professor of composition and orchestration and an active faculty member at the Composition Department of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music (Codarts)

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Press

I recommend the Entangled Tales CD for anyone wantlng an introduction to this signlficant 21st -century compositlonal voice.
The Whole Note, 01-2-2018

The fact that three major Dutch orchestra's put there forces together for an amazing Dutch composer deserves all credits.
Luister, 17-7-2017

Robin de Raaff: Remember this name, his third symphony is a masterpiece
Crescendo, 14-7-2017

This CD with works by the Dutch composer Robin de Raaff invites the listener to a cornucopia of new sound experiences which Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Neeme Järvi and Antonello Manacorda are eager to display committedly with their excellent orchestras.
Pizzicato, 12-6-2017

Although the title of this album suggests, is a short title piece not the defining characteristics of the album.
Mania, 31-5-2017

The three pieces for the orchestra that Challenge Records has collected by composer Robin de Raaff on the Entangled Tales CD provides a beautiful steel chart the work of this particular composer.
Nieuwe Noten, 26-5-2017

Strange composer, Robin de Raaff (1968), one of the best we have; how is that possible, so complex but so accessible?
De Groene Amsterdammer, 10-5-2017

From the very first notes, De Raaff builds an intriguing soundtrack that delivers all her secrets, but intrigues immediately.
Mania, 21-4-2017

(...) The composer plays with the light-dark contrast into a four-part structure that begins to evolve into dark clouds, tangled layers and finally to complete dilution and solidification. (...)
De Volkskrant, 14-4-2017

(...) A miracle is a big word, but inspired workmanship, it certainly is.
NRC, 13-4-2017

(...) The music from Robin de Raaf doesn't let itself describe easily. (...)
Opus Klassiek, 14-3-2017

"(Laura) Aikin makes de Raaffs technically demanding music sound like childs play, mastered with a uncomparable naturalness and impressive ease."
klassik.com, 25-1-2016

" (...) It is an intelligent if not entirely successful attempt on a tempting but, perhaps in the end, a dramatically intractable subject. (...) "
The Guardian, 16-12-2015