7044581350744

Lars Petter Hagen

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Rolf Gupta

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Format: CD

Cat No: ACD5074

Release Date:  21 October 2013

Label:  Aurora

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  7044581350744

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    On this CD the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Rolf Gupta perform the complete works to date by the contemporary composer Lars Petter Hagen whose imaginative music has gained him high regard especially in his native Norway. The Hardanger fiddle part in the concerto "To Zeitblom" is taken by rising star Gjermund Larsen.

    Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen was born in 1975. His music has been performed by many of the world's top modern music groups and orchestras, including Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Modern, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the SWR Symphony Orchestra. In addition to instrumental, vocal and electronic music, he also works with sound-installations and music for stage and film.



    "Norwegian Archives" was written for the Donaueschingen festival in 2005, and is a 5 movement piece for chamber orchestra and electronics. The concerto "To Zeitblom" features an improvising solo Hardanger fiddle and was premiered at the same festival in 2011. In "Tveitt-Fragments" Hagen builds his music on bits of burned score pages found in the ruins after the fire on the Tveitt farm in 1970, which is said to have destroyed more than 300 of the composer's works. "The Artist's Despair..." reflects on the situation of the symphony orchestra post-Mahler. Also included is the "Funeral March over Edvard Grieg", for Chamber group and an "off-stage" symphony orchestra.



    Personnel: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor), Gjermund Larsen (fiddle)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Norwegian Archives - for chamber orchestra and electronics, I. Det norske som natur (Norwegian-ness as Nature)
      • 2. II. 6 Salmer (Six Hymns)
      • 3. III. Hørespill om melankoli (A Play About Melancholy)
      • 4. IV. St Tomas stille (St. Thomas Tuning)
      • 5. V. Sørgemarsjer (Funeral Marches)
      • 6. The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins - for symphony orchestra
      • 7. Tveitt-Fragments - for string orchestra
      • 8. Funeral March over Edvard Grieg - for chamber group and off-stage symphony orchestra
      • 9. To Zeitblom - Concerto for Hardanger fiddle and symphony orchestra