Tromso Chamber Orchestra & Kolbjorn Holthe
Release Date: 25 June 2012
Label: Simax
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7033662013029
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
69°42' north - 19°00' east represent the map coordinates of the town of Tromsø in Norway, and therefore also of the orchestra featured on Perspectives. It is from this vantage point that its perspective on five European composers is applied, five composers who in turn exist in mutual contrast and perspective. The varied works by Webern, Pärt, Lutoslawski, Kurtág, and Fredrik Högberg embrace 99 years of European music history and are balanced by paradoxical opposites. The programme is dominated by moods of the long, arctic winter night - grief, longing, absence - and the midnight sun's unceasing orgy of light and life.
Tromsø Chamber Orchestra is the only full-time professional chamber orchestra in Norway. It has become well-known as a modern and versatile ensemble of high international standard. The orchestra gives weekly concerts in Tromsø, and the musicians also serve regularly as a part of the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, through the organisation NOSO AS. They appear with some of the most sought after soloists and artistic leaders from all over the world. Musically their range is from chamber ensembles and chamber orchestra to bigger symphonic productions. In addition to this, the orchestra has a high reputation in crossover repertory, through several co-productions with some of Norway's most in-demand pop and jazz artists.
Personnel: Tromsø Chamber Orchestra, Kolbjørn Holthe (leader/conductor), Dan Styffe (solo double-bass)
Tracklisting
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
Tone Kummervold
Per Kristian Skalstad, Telemark Chamber Orchestra
Ketil Bjornstad
Marius Neset, Leif Ove Andsnes
The Norwegian National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Terje Boye Hansen
Bjorn Sagstad & Ila Brass Band
Yngve Slettholm
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
