Despite what many might think, classical music and more mainstream sounds have never been mutually exclusive. From Strauss’s waltzes to Shostakovich’s jazz experimentations and Elgar’s incorporation of folk music into his work and then on to more modern-day film composition, the gap has never been that wide.
And what Peter Jonatan & Metropole Orkest do in this symphony is to underline this point and close that gap, if there is one, even further. While recognisably of the classical world, these four movements ebb and flow between folky forays and slick jazz lounge sophistication, sumptuous, filmic grandeur and big band bravado, delicacy and deftness. And, for the fourth movement, he even manages to move effortlessly from snappy jazz piano solos to ornate, operatic, and choral soundscapes.
If you’ve ever wondered where the line between the classical world and what is (quite wrongly) seen as more contemporary sounds start and finish, give Peter Jonatan’s latest piece a spin. You won’t come away with any answers on that score, it fact he will, quite purposefully make things less clear, but you will have a great time in his company.
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