Hvoslef Chamber Music Project: Hvoslef Chamber Works No. VIII

Współczesna Muzyka Kameralna
premiera polska: 2023-01-16
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Norwegia
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
Ketil Hvoslef (b. 1939) is a productive, versatile and undogmatic composer who — even now, in his 80’s — continues to write music at a furious pace. Hvoslef’s style is characterized by an economy of means, the accumulation of latent energy, rhythmical ingenuity and, often, an element of humour.
“Hvoslef Chamber Works No. VIII” is the next to last in a series of nine albums of Ketil Hvoslef’s chamber music. The idea to document 38 of Hvoslef’s chamber music works on CD was initiated by violinist Ricardo Odriozola and pianist Einar Røttingen, both with backgrounds spanning many years of cooperation with the composer. The recordings draw from the vast pool of performers in Bergen, where the composer lives and works. The musicians are primarily from the Grieg Academy (University of Bergen) and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

KETIL HVOSLEF – COMPOSER
Now in his 80's, Ketil Hvoslef continues to write music at a furious pace. He has written for many thinkable and unthinkable ensembles, often relishing the challenge of working with potentially «hopeless» instrumental combinations. He is Norway’s most prolific composer of concertos, with 20 to date. He has three operas, numerous works for orchestra, and a wealth of chamber music. Hvoslef’s vocal music is of particular interest in that it includes, for the most part, «nonsense texts». Aware of the main pitfall of the Bel Canto tradition, where the beauty of tone in the vowels often results in the unintelligibility of the text, Hvoslef usually constructs his own «meaningless» words in order to underline the character of the music. He has also composed an impressive collection of works for solo instruments and a fair amount of incidental music.

Hvoslef’s style is characterized by an economy of means, the accumulation of latent energy, rhythmical ingenuity and, often, an element of humour. He has repeatedly said that he wishes for his listeners to lean forward on the edge of their chairs rather than sit back. There is, in Hvoslef’s music, always a sense of anticipation, a feeling that it is on its way to somewhere unknown, which in turn makes the experience of each moment all the more intense. There is always transparency in the music, allowing it to breathe and making it possible for the listener to follow what is happening in it.

HVOSLEF CHAMBER MUSIC PROJECT
The recordings draw from the vast pool of performers in Bergen, where the composer lives and works, in order to facilitate a closer collaboration between composer and players on every single work up to the time of the actual recording. The performers are primarily from the Grieg Academy (University of Bergen) and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, with the addition of some musicians from other Scandinavian countries. The aim of the recordings is to help promote the establishment of a performance practice for Hvoslef’s music.

muzycy:
String Quartets Nos. 1 and 4
Ricardo Odriozola – Violin
Mara Haugen – Violin
Ilze Klava – Viola
Ragnhild Sannes – Cello

Octopus Rex for 8 Cellos
John Ehde
Finlay Hare
Markus Eriksen
Tobias Olai Eide
Ragnhild Sannes
Marius Laberg
Carmen Bóveda
Milica Toskov
Ricardo Odriozola – Conductor

Concerto for Violin and Pop Band
Ricardo Odriozola – Violin
Einar Røttingen – Piano
Håkon Sjøvik Olsen – El. Piano
Benjamin Kallestein – El. Organ
Thomas Lossius – El. Bass
Sigurd Steinkopf – Percussion

utwory:
1. String Quartet No. IV (16:10)
2. Octopus Rex (for 8 Cellos) (08:03)
3. String Quartet No. I (08:23)
4. Concerto for Violin and Pop Band (16:50)

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