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
Engegard Quartet
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
Matthew Schellhorn
Bruce Wolosoff
Christoph Croise; Daniel Schnyder
Jorgen Pettersson, Paulina Sundin, Jens Hedman, Jonny Axelsson
Liza Lim, JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, Rohan Dasika
Sean Jones, Nicholas Phan, London Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Young
The Lyris Quartet; Cedric Berry, Alyssa Park, Timothy Loo, Michael Matsuno, Jon Stehney, Sidney Hop
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
