Release Date: 31 January 2011
Label: Aurora
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7044581350645
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Norwegian Safari
Release Date: 31 January 2011
Label: Aurora
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7044581350645
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Norwegian Safari
Description
As a portable version of the piano, the modern accordion is an instrument with a broad spectrum of references, both musical and social, and has an important place in today’s music scene. The range of styles represented in this collection of pieces by contemporary composers reflects this. The soloist is the award winning instrumentalist Øivind Farmen.
The CD begins with Håkon Berges Girlander (Garland). In this piece the musical phrases twist outwards in repeated circular movements. The circle is also present as a feature of the harmony. A similar idea can be heard in Wolfgang Plagge’s Fractals. Plagge conducts a dialogue between pedal notes and light echo effects, which creates a composed resonance on the instrument. Antonio Bibalo’s Sonata quasi una fantasia is the longest piece on the disc, and is a narrative with many layers, unfolding in a way that testifies to the composer’s experience of music theatre. In Erlend Skomsvoll’s Piece for Accordion the composer allows the musical form to move forward organically, with frequent use of unexpected harmonic building blocks. Meditatio by Terje Bjørklund is a piece that has a lyrical style and an atmosphere akin to film music. Finally Sigmund Lillebjerka brings us back to a folky, playful idiom with his Dazzle Dance.
Personnel: Øivind Farmen (accordion), Elise Båtnes (violin)
Tracklisting
Kristine Tjogersen
Stephan Meidell & Bergen Barokk
Various Composers
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Lemur
Ellen Ugelvik, Sanae Yoshida and Hakon Austbo
Kristine Tjogersen
Bilayer & Sarah-Jane Summers
Wu Wei; Martin Stegner; Janne Saksala
Vinciane Beranger; Anne-Lise Gastaldi; Florent Heau
Giovanni Antonini; Kammerorchester Basel
Borbala Dobozy
Mitja Quartet; Giorgiana Strazzullo; Lorenza Maio; Carmine Caniani; Veronica Fabbri Valenzuela
Luca Ranieri; Andrea Trovato
Lord of the Dance
Decibel