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Background: As a viola-playing composer Brett Dean is in the elevated company of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Dvorák, Hindemith and Vaughan Williams. But even if this disc includes two works focusing on Dean’s own instrument – in performances by the composer himself – his impressive work list consists of a wide spectrum of genres, including concertos, orchestral works, chamber music and vocal works.

On the present disc, two other ‘Berlin pieces’ are included. Twelve Angry Men, written for the cellists of the orchestra, was inspired by the famous courtroom film with the same name and charts the course of the jury’s heated deliberations. Komarov’s Fall, for full orchestra, was commissioned by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic as a companion piece for Holst’s The Planets, and was written in memory of the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the first person to die in space (in 1957). These two works are complemented by the solo-piece Intimate Decisions, and the recent and much-acclaimed Viola Concerto, which was met with great acclaim.

CATALOGUE NR: BISCD1696
RECORD LABEL: BIS
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 28-Jul-2008

COMPOSER: Brett Dean
TITLE: Composer and Performer
TRACKS: Viola Concerto. Twelve Angry Men for twelve cellos. Intimate Decisions for solo viola. Komarov’s Fall for orchestra.
ORCHESTRA: Sydney Symphony
CONDUCTOR: Simone Young and Hugh Wolff
ARTISTS: Brett Dean      

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