Release Date: 05 May 2023
Label: Aurora
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090057990099
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Composer/Series: Critical Bands
Description
Aurora Records proudly presents Critical Bands, featuring some of Norway's leading performers on the contemporary music scene: Bjørnar Habbestad (flutes), Hild Sofie Tafjord (horn), Lene Grenager (cello), and Michael Francis Duch (double bass). The new album will be available as a CD and on digital platforms on May 5th 2023, and is the highly productive composition collective's first release on Aurora. The album will be celebrated with a concert in Oslo on the 6th of May.
Critical Bands is the culmination of Lemur's decade-long exploration of physical, abstract, and ephemeral sonic spaces. Recorded by more than fifty musicians in different sites and configurations across several countries, the album exposes deep layers of sonic exploration. Complex instrumental materials are captured and filtered through different architectonic spaces, revealing a modular, site-specific composition practice.
'Critical Bands is designed as a process' LEMUR states. 'It takes form as negotiation between different sites, musicians, scores, and recordings that investigates how music can relate to the space in which it is performed'.
The album was recorded inNidarosdomen (Trondheim), Korskirken (Bergen), Sofienberg kirke (Oslo), LiteraturHaus (Copenhagen), Notam (Oslo), Harpa (Reykjavik), and Athletic Sound (Halden) and subsequently combined, edited and re-composed by the ensemble. The work is realized with performances from outstanding musicians from Norway and abroad; Eivind Lønning (trumpet), Morten Barrikmo (clarinets), Tanja Orning (cello), Robin Hayward (tuba), Torben Snekkestad (sax), Lotte Anker, Caput Ensemble, Ole Henrik Moe (octobass, violin, viola), Kari Rønnekleiv and many more!
Tracklisting
Kristine Tjogersen
Stephan Meidell & Bergen Barokk
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Lemur
Bilayer & Sarah-Jane Summers
Kari Beate Tandberg
Oslo Philharmonic, Olari Elts
Kristin Bolstad
Uli Fussenegger, Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke, Sofia Jernberg, Holger Falk, ORF Radio-Symphon
Elena Ruehr; Stephen Salters; Donald Berman; David Zobel
Peter Ruzicka, Nils Monkemeyer, Carolin Widmann, Albrecht Mayer, Kris Garfitt, NDR Elbphilharmonie
Adam Berenson
Present Music, Ariadne Greif, David Bloom
Bilayer & Sarah-Jane Summers
Adam Baldych; Ensemble Peregrina
Andrew Poppy
