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THOMAS GOULD Live in Riga
Sinfonietta Riga

1-3. Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 - Ludwig van Beethoven
	I. Allegro ma non troppo
	II. Larghetto
	III. Rondo (Allegro)

4. The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams  

Produced by Raphaël Mouterde
Executive producer Dave Stapleton

‘Live in Riga’ is the major new album from the celebrated 31 year old British violinist Thomas Gould.  Recorded live in concert with Sinfonietta Riga on April 11th 2014 at the Great Guild Hall in Riga, Latvia, it confirms Gould’s enormous potential as one of the most inventive and colourful instrumentalists of his generation.  Gould is no ordinary classical musician but one of a new generation who refuse to be defined by a single genre.  He has developed impressive jazz credentials, but it is in this environment as soloist/director of classical repertoire where he really excels.  The Times recently described Gould as “intent on becoming the Nigel Kennedy of his generation”.  Gould, however, is incomparably his own musician.  Bold and courageous enough to forge his own path and follow his singular vision, he steps outside the footsteps of the greats.

‘Live in Riga’ is a defining album for Gould, his first disc of a three-album deal with forward-thinking British jazz and classical record label Edition Classics.  Over the last decade he has been in demand as a soloist with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra and LA Phil New Music Group.  He is also much in demand as a leader/director, working with Britten Sinfonia, Aurora Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s ACO2, but it’s when he brings these disciplines together that the magic happens.  As Gould explains, “It means that everyone plays in a more engaged way. There is a group commitment to making it work, so the process is much more collaborative than when working with conductor.”

Sinfonietta Riga is an orchestra with a story to tell.  Formed in 2006, their vision is as bold as Gould’s.  Equally happy to play in concert dress or T-shirts they are intent on building new audiences for the music while reaching for the highest artistic standards.  Their collaboration is a perfect match and a unique experience for both the orchestra and for Gould.  This live concert recording bears witness to this special musical symbiosis.

To release an album featuring Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending is a bold decision.  As two cornerstones of the violin repertoire, there are plenty of performances to compare, but Gould’s versions demonstrate a brilliance of tone and colour that demands attention.  His flexibility and breadth of musical interests is fully evident.  Gould’s playing has the clarity you would expect from any major performer but radiates a freedom in its expression as though improvised with an immediate elegance and poise.

For Gould it’s all about achieving the right balance.  Whether it’s jazz or classical, written or improvised, as soloist or director, Gould is right in the eye of the storm.  If the dark clouds gathering in the wider music world imply that the days of the single-minded virtuoso are coming to an end; if to succeed in that brave new world we need to attract more diversity and brighter colours, then in Thomas Gould we may have found the lightning conductor to spark a new generation.


THOMAS GOULD Beethoven - Violin Concerto In D, Op.61 - II. Larghetto

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Flute Sonata op.94 (1943)

IV. Allegro con brio

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Alessandro Baticci, flute
Pauli Jämsä, piano

recorded at FM-Saal at the University for Music and performing Arts in Vienna, 25.10.2014 

Prokofiev - Flute Sonata op.94, IV. Allegro con brio

Φ Any system with integrated information different from zero has consciousness Φ  


Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer's Theme
Bela Bartok - Piano Violin Sonata N°1 
Brian Eno - Pour it out
Caretaker - When The Dog Were Crawling To An End
Charlemagne Palestine & Terry Jennings - Short and Sweet
Coil - Are You Shivering
Cristian Vogel - Mount the 137
David Rosenboom - Desert Night Touch Down
Deux Filles - Song for Ozu
Dolphins Into The Future - Onset Beyond Clouds
Erkki Kurenniemi - Nimetön
Ghédalia Tazartès - Un Amour Si Grande
Helm - Olympic Mess
Henri Chopin - Riches Heures Signistes
Joan LaBarbara - Klee Alee
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
Kim Cascone - Polychromatic Cloud 1
Maryanne Amacher - Head Rhythm 1, Plaything 2
Marcus Schmickler / Julian Rohrhuber - Surreal Number
Michel Redolfi - Pacific Tubular Waves
Mike Ratledge Riddles of The Sphinx, Sequence 2
Pinkcourtesyphone - wistful wishful wanton
Randy Greif - Sobs Choked His Voice
Robert Ashley - She was a Visitor
Terry Riley - Mescalin Mix, Music For The Gift 5
Tim Hecker - Song of the Highwire Shrimper
Unknown - You Start With Yelling
Voices of the Loon - Side A
Yoshi Wada - Bagpipe
Zoviet France - Siege

channel 1 - park

Mahler´s "Titan", 1st movement (ending)

This excerpt was created using a new flute sample library, which I created over the last weeks in lock-down

Mahler 1st Symphony (excerpt) with HYPERFLUTE Sampler

Gustav Mahler

Symphony no.1 (1898)

I. Langsam, schleppend

transcribed by A.Baticci using only flute samples 
Enjoy!

disclamer: triangle and cymbals are the only foreign sounds...

Mahler - Titan - 1. Langsam, schleppend - HYPERFLUTE

E. Elgar 
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 

Played by HYPERFLUTE

Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 - E. Elgar - HYPERFLUTE

Alessandro Baticci (Milan, 1991) works at the interception of music and technology. 
As a composer, flautist and electroacoustic performer, Alessandro is active internationally in the field of contemporary music and sound art. Alessandro is also serial entrepreneur, inventor and product designer. He developed various electro-acoustical instruments, digital control and mapping systems, sound libraries, as well as sound and ergonomic solutions for acoustic instruments. Alessandro holds lectures and workshops in various universities across the world. He pursued studies in composition, flute, sound engineering as well as multimedia art in Milan, Vienna and Graz.

Alessandro is a Luzern Festival Academy Alumnus, fellow of Akademie Musiktheater heute by the Deutsche Bank Stiftung and Fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation (2022). His work has been rewarded with prestigious awards, such as the Staats-Stipendium of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (2021), the Publicity Award of the SKE Cultural Sponsorship (2022), the Theodor Körner Prize (2022) and the ERSTE Bank Composition Award (2023). 
Alessandro is founding member of The Black Page Orchestra, as well as co-founder of the composer-performer duo Nimikry. His recent compositions include commissions for Lucerne Festival, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Staatsoper Stuttgart and Ensemble Phace.

Prokofiev - Flute Sonata op.94, IV. Allegro con brio

Alessandro Baticci

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