#42 - Remembering Bulgarian Composer Dimitar Nenov

The 42nd episode of Dress Rehearsal, on 107.3 KBFG Seattle, featured Bulgarian composer Dimitar Nenov and his monumental Piano Concerto written in 1936. In line with the recent podcast on Iannis Xenakis, in Nenov we find a similar polymath, as he, other than a composer and a pianist, was also a practicing architect, a pedagogue and a radio producer. Nenov's Piano Concerto is built as a single sonata form of gigantic proportions, exceeding even those achieved in the symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner and such an immense, cathedral-like, edifice may not be so surprising as this is, after all, the work of a composer who was also a professional architect. The work has been recently resurfaced and brought to the stages by intervention of Pianist Ivo Varbanov, an advocate of Bulgarian music. During the hour we are going to listen to a live performance of the Nenov Piano Concerto performed by Ivo Varbanov with the Turku Philharmonic conducted by Leif Segerstam. Don't miss it!