Denise de Freitas; Marina Martins; Goias Philharmonic Orchestra; Neil Thomson - Claudio Santoro: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto

The 1960s proved to be a significant decade in Claudio Santorois ever-eventful life. The charged atmosphere of the Cello Concerto can be attributed to his experiences in East Berlin at the moment construction started on the Berlin Wall. Despite its challenging solo writing, the concerto is the most symphonically proportioned of all his concertante works. Exceptionally for Santoro, the dramatic Eighth Symphony combines serial techniques with an openly Expressionist idiom. TrIs AbstraAoes explores timbres and dynamic contrasts with string orchestra, while InteraAoes AssintUticas is Santorois only work to use quarter-tone tuning for some remarkable effects.