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Release Date: 03 July 2026
Label: Lawo
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090020183947
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Eivind Buene
Description
With Personal Best, Norwegian composer Eivind Buene presents a new work written for Trio Accanto that blurs the boundaries between composition, performance, and reflection. The title suggests competition and measurement, but Personal Best turns the idea inward. Rather than striving for virtuosity in the conventional sense, the work investigates what it means to perform at one's limits--artistically, physically, and mentally. The instrumental writing moves between sharply etched gestures and moments of suspended clarity, creating a constantly shifting terrain in which sound, text, and presence interact. The result is a work that feels at once rigorously constructed and strikingly immediate. The album also includes Serious Songs, Buene's adaptations of Johannes Brahms' Four Serious Songs. Here Buene himself appears as singer, his performance bringing back imperfection and vulnerability to art music and blurring the boundaries between real life and the art of interpretation.
Trio Accanto; Eivind Buene
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Andris Poga
Ssens Trio
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Aivis Greters
Oslo Circles
Sunniva Rodland
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Andris Poga
Ole Martin Huser-Olsen
VIDA Guitar Quartet
Trio Parnassus
Trio Kanon/Lena Yokoyama/Alessandro Copia/Diego Maccagnola/Irina Dubrovskaya
Rie Kimura/Pieter-Jan Belder/Musica Amphion
Luigi Magistrelli/Matteo Fedeli/Carlo Balzaretti
Het Nederlands Bach Consort
Ensemble Mark Rothko/Massimiliano Ferrati/Andrea Ferrati
DaVinci Ensemble
