Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806-26)
Watching this fascinating documentary. There’s about an hour of additional interviews as bonus material that really are very interesting to hear . …Teddy Charles, Billy Taylor, Ira Gitler et al.
Kalevi Aho: Symphony No. 15 (2009-10)
Michael Jarrell: …es bleibt eine zitternde Bebung… (Nachlese III) for clarinet, cello and orchestra (2007)
Ernesto Molinari, clarinet
Thomas Demenga, cello
WDR Sinfonieorchester/Peter Rundel
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Thanks for the tip. Schubert is a bit ‘out of period’ for me but I listened to it and was impressed at how it had been transformed into something resembling a concept album. Just looking at some of her other albums it would appear that Ms Kopatchinskaja likes to mix things up a bit. Since I find full orchestra a bit overwhelming nowadays I then played this more conventional interpretation. I shall now escape gratefully back to Baroque!
The concerts with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra were concept events. The album is a recording made at the concerts. When she first appears on stage she was in a one-piece black leotard with a white skeleton. The concerts were delicious fun.
All of her performances are outside of the box. I recently saw her perform the Beethoven violin concerto. She plays parts very softly, adds glissandos, flirts with other orchestra members, mimics other’s phrasing, etc. Playful, dramatic, borderline nutty. I sometimes find her brilliant; others, highly annoying - which of course means she is expressing something new.
Rediscovering Dave Brubeck.
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Mirror II
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard
Recorded: 14-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, United Kingdom
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Wow! You are consistently posting 21st century European composers that I’m not familiar with…thanks for all the suggestions. It’s hard to keep up but I’m trying… 
Unfortunately Gerard Grisey didn’t quite make it to the 21st century. He died at age 52 in 1998.
I just noticed that myself. 52 is young. Ruptured aneurysm?
Pascal Dusapin: À Quia, for piano and orchestra (2002)
Ian Pace, piano
Orchestre De Paris/Christoph Eschenbach
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Tessa Souter “Obsession”
Wow. Very nice.
