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Pastoral 21
Ludwig van Beethoven

Gabriel Prokofiev

Pastoral 21

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212076125
Catnr: SIGCD 761
Release date: 02 February 2024
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212076125
Catalogue number
SIGCD 761
Release date
02 February 2024
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About the album

Pastoral Reflections is a contemporary exploration on what the concept of ‘Pastoral’ means to us in this time of climate crisis. It features classical string sextet alongside field recordings, electronic bass & angular beats, centered around Gabriel Prokofiev’s contemporary response to Beethoven's 250 year old Pastoral Symphony.

The Album opens with the original first movement of Beethoven’s famous symphony (arranged for sextet) - reminding listeners of our less troubled relationship with nature 250 years ago - before moving on to the modern beats of Prokofiev’s recent composition Breaking Screens, which explores ideas of consumerism, digital life and impending crisis. The programme climaxes with 5 movement 'Pastoral Reflections' which echoes Beethoven’s symphonic narrative, but from a contemporary perspective.

Artist(s)

Gabriel Prokofiev (synthesizer)

Composing music that both embraces and challenges western classical traditions, Gabriel Prokofiev has emerged as a significant voice in new approaches to classical music at the beginning of the 21st century. After completing his musical studies at Birmingham and York Universities, and dissatisfied with the seemingly insular world of contemporary classical music, he developed a parallel music career as a dance, grime, electro and hip-hop producer. This background in dance music combined with his classical roots gives his music a unique and truly contemporary sound.  Gabriel has built up a large body of orchestral and chamber works and has composed seven concertos (three featuring turntables), as well as many electronic works, often combining synthesisers and samples with classical instrumentation. His works...
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Composing music that both embraces and challenges western classical traditions, Gabriel Prokofiev has emerged as a significant voice in new approaches to classical music at the beginning of the 21st century. After completing his musical studies at Birmingham and York Universities, and dissatisfied with the seemingly insular world of contemporary classical music, he developed a parallel music career as a dance, grime, electro and hip-hop producer. This background in dance music combined with his classical roots gives his music a unique and truly contemporary sound.

Gabriel has built up a large body of orchestral and chamber works and has composed seven concertos (three featuring turntables), as well as many electronic works, often combining synthesisers and samples with classical instrumentation. His works have been performed internationally by orchestras including Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, MDR Leipzig, Copenhagen Phil, Luxembourg Philharmonique, Buenos Aires Filharmonica, Porto Symphony and Real Orquesta de Sevilla. Also, he frequently collaborates with contemporary dancers and has worked with companies including Stuttgarter Ballet, Rambert Dance, Bern Ballet, Shobana Jeyasingh, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Alexander Whitley Dance and Gandini Juggling. In 2019, his first full-length opera Elizabetta was premiered by Regensburg Opera in Bavaria.

Gabriel is also an events curator, producer and founder of the Nonclassical record label and club night, home to a host of artists who defy conventions. Through Nonclassical, he has been one of the leading proponents of presenting classical music in non-traditional venues; and he regularly performs in East London nightclubs, warehouses and electronic music festivals, often DJing and doing live remixes of the works just performed.

Gabriel studied electroacoustic composition under Jonty Harrison in Birmingham, and a Masters in composition with Ambrose Field & Roger Marsh. He is published by both Faber Music and Mute Song, and resides in Hackney, London, with his wife and their three young children.


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UNLTD Collective

UNLTD is a creative lab that shakes up the way we experience music by sparking curiosity and connecting generations. The UNLTD Collective is made up of alumni of the Verbier Festival Academy and Orchestra programmes, who come together to develop and present innovative original projects across Europe and beyond.
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UNLTD is a creative lab that shakes up the way we experience music by sparking curiosity and connecting generations. The UNLTD Collective is made up of alumni of the Verbier Festival Academy and Orchestra programmes, who come together to develop and present innovative original projects across Europe and beyond.

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Composer(s)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School.    Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob...
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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01.
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral' (Arr. for String Sextet): I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non troppo
11:31
(Ludwig Van Beethoven) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
02.
Breaking Screens: Green Into Red
02:25
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
03.
Breaking Screens: Fivatak
04:35
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
04.
Breaking Screens: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
00:56
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
05.
Breaking Screens: ChangeUp
02:11
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
06.
Breaking Screens: Sad Colours 1
02:32
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
07.
Breaking Screens: Memory Fields
03:19
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
08.
Breaking Screens: Reflessivo
03:59
Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
09.
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral' (Arr. for String Sextet): V. Hirtengesang, frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm. Allegretto
09:20
(Ludwig Van Beethoven) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
10.
Pastoral Reflections: I. Allegro ma non troppo (escape into nature)
04:45
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
11.
Pastoral Reflections: II. Andante con moto (nature reserve with canalised stream)
03:52
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
12.
Pastoral Reflections: III. Allegro Mechanico (Mega-farm, cyber village)
02:49
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
13.
Pastoral Reflections: IV. Vivace (Sturm)
01:29
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
14.
Pastoral Reflections: V. Allegretto (Stadtpark, faint hopes)
05:11
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
15.
Breaking Screens: Mobocracy
02:32
(Gabriel Prokofiev) Gabriel Prokofiev, UNLTD Collective
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