Release Date: 12 January 2024
Label: Lawo
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090020182841
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
This new release from LAWO Classics features recordings of works by
contemporary composers Rolf Wallin, Klaus Lang and Richard Barrett,
performed here by Norweigan contemporary music ensemble Cikada
Seven Disobediences is my answer to the tradition of character pieces for piano, such as Debussy's Preludes and Grieg's Lyric Pieces; short, relatively simple but concise miniatures with a motto, and usually with one prevalent sentiment--like a musical short story. The title of each of the seven pieces is an imperative consisting of four letters: Seek! Push! Lean! Etc - Rolf Wallin.
Parthenon, or the construction of beauty. In my work as a composer, the two
main infuences were the Greek and the Japanese tradition of art and thought.
Both traditions found ways of representing their world views in great pieces of
architecture. Architecture mirrors a world view. Parthenon is refecting basic
assumptions of Greek aesthetics. 'Parthenon' is something like a photographic
negative of the Greek structure: In the Greek frieze, marble is used to represent ever changing life; my piece uses the most ephemeral material - sound - to represent architecture. - Klaus Lang.
One of the highlights of my compositional activity at the beginning of the 21st
century was my collaboration with Cikada and Christian Eggen, which culminated in several runs of performances, and a CD recording, of the extended composition DARK MATTER, a collaboration also with installation artist Per Inge Bjorlo and the Elision Ensemble from Australia. The three pieces recorded here were written for Cikada and performed several times as a "triptych". The performance at Huddersfeld was particularly memorable. - Richard Barrett
"the whole package adds up to an attractive seventy-minute programme of gripping new music. […] I fervently commend Klaus Lang's magisterial Parthenon to all-comers." – MusicWeb International
Tracklisting
NyNorsk Messingkvintett, Thorolf Thuestad
Engegard Quartet
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Ssens Trio
Torleif Thedee & Marianna Shirinyan
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Berit Norbakken & Solmund Nystabakk
Cikada
Cikada
