7318599925165

Latern Lectures

Latern Lectures

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Format: SACD

Cat No: BIS2516

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Release Date:  05 August 2022

Label:  Bis / BIS Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  7318599925165

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

Composer/Series:  Latern Lectures

  • Description

    Although born in Sweden, Klas Torstensson has spent most of his working life in the Netherlands following his studies in Utrecht in the early 1970s. Stylistically, he may call to mind Varèse, Xenakis and – perhaps more distantly – Stravinsky. First and foremost, however, Torstensson’s music is personal and distinctive. It is often nourished by his experiences of nature: rough granite, the sea, ice in the frozen Baltic inlets, the polar ice cap. His Lantern Lectures were composed in the aftermath of his opera The Expedition, about an ill-fated journey to the North Pole. While occupied with the opera he had received commissions from several different ensembles, and he therefore decided to write a cycle of works for these ensembles – compositions to be performed separately or as ‘movements’ forming a greater whole.

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