Composer's Notebook 5

The music of Alexey Shor is regularly performed in the most prestigious concert halls in the world. He owes his popularity to his distinctive style, which combines neoclassical clarity with a strong emphasis on rhetoric and traditional harmonies, as heard in his First Violin Concerto. The Second and Fifth Violin Concertos are works that explore a spectrum of emotions, ranging from deep sadness and loss to exciting and rousing passions, which require a high degree of virtuosity from both the soloist and the orchestra.