Release Date: 30 July 2021
Label: Lawo
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090020182469
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
This recording is a result of Alpaca Ensemble's close collaboration with two living composers - both write music that reflects on humanity's place in a world profoundly greater than us.
In the first work on the recording, Karin Rehnqvist takes the listener into outer space, while on the last track Ellen Lindquist paints us a vast landscape.
Within Karin Rehnqvist's music, esoterism, mythicism and tradition are fused together with modernism's propensity for resistance and estrangement. At the same time, its dialogue with traditional music, liturgy, rituals and folklore and adherence to vocal musical practice, allows the music to break into open forms and address the listener very directly.
Ellen Lindquist's music features individual instruments and parts merging into large, sonorous landscapes. The composer often works in tandem with other art forms such as dance, poetry, performance and music theatre. In these interdisciplinary constellations, her music is allowed to insist on what is particular to instrumental music compared to other art forms, on its abstract, permeable qualities, which those other disciplines can approach, but never really achieve. .
Tracklisting
Christian Ihle Hadland
Ditte and Hans Christian Braein
Royal Norwegian Navy Band, The Norwegian National Opera Chorus, Bjarte Engeset
Alexandra Silocea
Nordic Voices, Nivalis Barokk
Tora Augestad, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Kare Nordstoga
Kammerkoret Nova, Julia Selina Blank
Marco Fusi
Kate Ledger
Kristine Tjogersen
Peter Pichler, Melanie Dreher, Harald Genzmer, Paul Hindemith, Paul Dessau, Henry Purcell
Uli Fussenegger, Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke, Sofia Jernberg, Holger Falk, ORF Radio-Symphon
Elena Ruehr; Stephen Salters; Donald Berman; David Zobel
Peter Ruzicka, Nils Monkemeye, Carolin Widmann, Albrecht Mayer, Kris Garfitt, Various Orchestras
Adam Berenson
