KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS CD SPIRITS OF SIBERIA / LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI
"Counterpoints" in Krasnoyarsk, a Siberian centre which geographically forms almost the centre of Asia: Composition commissions for two festivals, the "Transsiberian Art Festival" in April 2019 and the festival "Asia - Siberia - Europe" in September 2019. One for chamber orchestra - one for symphony orchestra. Once the natural world of the archaic world of Siberia - once the artificial world of Mozart's opera. In the first work, the double bass from art music (played by Artem Chirkov, the soloist of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra) and the double bass balalaika, which seems almost exotic in such a context (played by Mikhail Dzyudze, a jack-of-all-trades from folklore to the electric bass of rock music) are juxtaposed. - In the other work, Reinhold Friedrich combines three highly contrasting registers of the trumpet and plays the flugelhorn, the trumpet and the high piccolo trumpet, which fathom the depths and are contrasts that can hardly be mastered from a technical point of view. BUT: the contrasts - as with the plus/minus pole of electricity - are the source of voltage and suspense. Yes, - consistently creating suspense and taking the listener on a journey marked by contrasts is the intention of this CD compilation