Elisabeth Holmertz, Asamisimasa, Cikada - Henrik Hellstenius: Places of Sounds and Words
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premiera polska: 2023-03-08
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Norwegia
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Norwegian composer Henrik Hellstenius explores the relationship between music and the wider reality that it exists within.
On this recording participating musicians are soprano Elisabeth Holmertz, and the ensembles Cikada and asamisimasa.
What is the nature of the relationship between music and the wider reality that it exists within? Does art. Imitate life, or can life imitate art.? Can the two meaningfully coexist? When a sound is taken from the real world and placed into a musical context, does it mean the same thing? Where does meaning come from, and how do we decide what a sound means?
Henrik Hellstenius first began investigating these questions in 2007, with Places of Sound, a work composed for a choreographed performance at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, that combined two singers, strings and sounds from the real world. Some years later, Hellstenius returned to this, exploring in more depth what he refers to as a “polyphony of signs”, bringing together the worlds of composed and found sounds and investigating their impact and effect on each other.
On this recording he presents three works: Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics, Unfolded for Piano Trio, and Instrument of Speech for Ensemble and Electronics. Participating musicians are soprano Elisabeth Holmertz, and the ensembles Cikada and asamisimasa.
Henrik Hellstenius (born 1963), a Norwegian composer, studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music and with Gérard Grisey at Conservatoire Supérieur.
Hellstenius’s output encompasses a large range of works: chamber music, orchestral works, opera, electro-acoustic music and music for theatre and dance. His music has been performed frequently at concerts and festivals around the world by ensembles and musicians such as Cikada, BIT20, Oslo Sinfonietta, Court Circuit, Irvine Arditti, Peter Herresthal, asamisimasa, Hans Kristian Kjos Sørensen, Ensemble El Perro Andaluz, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Stavanger Philharmonic Orchestra.
His first opera, Sera, received the Norwegian Edvard Award in 2000, and has been staged in Oslo and Warsaw. His second opera, Ophelias: Death by Water Singing, premiered in Oslo in 2005 and was staged in Warsaw, Oslo and Osnabrück, Germany. It was recorded in 2014 and released on the LAWO Classics label in 2016 (LWC1098). In 2022 he received a Spellemann Award (Norway’s Grammy) as ‘Composer of the Year’ for the release Past & Presence, also on the LAWO Classics label (LWC1229).
Hellstenius has been composer in residence with the Bergen International Festival 2011, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra 2013/2014, and the June in Buffalo Festival 2017.
In recent years Hellstenius has focused on the musical relationship between sound, words and movement in its many forms, ranging from staged concerts and performance works to musical theatre pieces. He is at present conducting an artistic research project, ‘Extended Compositon’, where he focuses on the possibilities in composition with movement, sound and language.
Hellstenius is also a professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and has been a guest teacher of composition at festivals, conservatories and universities in Germany, the USA, Austria, France and the Nordic countries.
muzycy:
Elisabeth Holmertz - Soprano
ASAMISIMASA:
(Instrument of Speech)
On this recording:
Ellen Ugelvik, piano
Tanja Orning, cello
Anders Førisdal, guitar
Kristine Tjøgersen, clarinet
Håkon Mørch Stene, percussion
CIKADA:
Bjørn Rabben, percussion
Kenneth Karlsson, piano
Odd Hannisdal, violin
Torun Stavseng, cello
utwory:
1. Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics (2014) - I. Things, Places and People (05:43)
2. Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics (2014) - II. Mutated Birds (04:35)
3. Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics (2014) - III. A Girl (03:37)
4. Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics (2014) - IV. Lost in Life (05:28)
5. Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics (2014) - V. Animals in the Forest (04:56)
6. Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics (2014) - VI. Places, People and Things (02:17)
7. Places of Sounds and Words for Soprano, Ensemble and Electronics (2014) - VII. I Only See Forms (05:23)
8. Unfolded (2020) for Piano Trio - (12:35)
9. Instrument of Speech for Ensemble and Electronics (2016–17) - I. Bennett Talks (04:15)
10. Instrument of Speech for Ensemble and Electronics (2016–17) - II. Readings (03:15)
11. Instrument of Speech for Ensemble and Electronics (2016–17) - III. Chomsky Lectures (05:37)
12. Instrument of Speech for Ensemble and Electronics (2016–17) - IV. Babel (06:32)
wydano: 2022-11-07
more info: www.lawo.no
Opis
- Wydawca
- Lawo Classics
- Kompozytor
- Henrik Hellstenius (b.1963)
- Artysta
- Elisabeth Holmertz, Asamisimasa, Cikada
- Nazwa
- Henrik Hellstenius: Places of Sounds and Words
- Zawiera
- 1CD
- Data premiery
- 2023-03-08