Night Song
Ketil Bjornstad & Svante Henryson
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Release Date: 31 January 2011
Label: Ecm Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602527095790
Ketil Bjornstad & Svante Henryson
Release Date: 31 January 2011
Label: Ecm Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602527095790
Description
Night Song is an album of intimate duos for piano and cello, featuring original compositions by Norwegian Ketil Bjørnstad (with the melodies of Franz Schubert as an inspirational source) and by Swede Svante Henryson.
Ketil Bjørnstad's ability to write warm and inviting music for piano and cello was confirmed by the The River (1996) and Epigraphs (1998), his duets with David Darling, which count amongst the popular works in his discography. Now the Norwegian pianist encounters a cellist of quite different temperament, "the perfect chamber musician" in Ketil's estimate: Svante Henryson, who also contributes four compositions to the album.
This charming duo project is conceived by Bjørnstad as a "musical dialogue with Franz Schubert and a tribute to him." Since schooldays, Ketil has been "obsessed with Schubert's linear melodic and harmonic patterns": some of these are re-channelled in this suite.
Currently one of the most talked-about figures in the European arts, Ketil Bjørnstad is going from strength to strength on two fronts. Each of his ECM recordings has received a chorus of praise from the critics. The recent Remembrance, released 2010, was described by the Daily Express as "exquisite, intriguing and, in its quiet way, life-affirming". As a novelist Bjørnstad is also highly regarded. His book "To Music" is nominated for The Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize 2010. In France it won the "Prix des Lecteurs" prize and in Germany it shot into the best-seller lists.
Svante Henryson, also an artistic polymath, has a following in his own right, acquired in the course of an idiosyncratic career that has variously found him playing double-bass with the Oslo Philharmonic, bass guitar with Yngwie Malmsteen's hard rock band, and cello with Jon Balke's Magnetic North Orchestra. He has appeared on recordings of Stevie Wonder, Ryan Adams and Elvis Costello amongst others, and is also recognised as a composer of contemporary classical music.
Personnel: Ketil Bjørnstad (piano), Svante Henryson (cello)
Tracklisting
John Surman
Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano
Sebastian Rochford
Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Fred Thomas & Matthieu Michel
Keith Jarrett
Mette Henriette
Keith Jarrett
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy
ELISION Ensemble
The Royal Wind Music
Jonatan Alvarado; Ariel Abramovich
Graindelavoix; Bjorn Schmelzer
Heinrich-Isaac-Ensemble; ensemble officium
Anita Cerquetti
Leipzig String Quartet
Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)