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2024-03-20 14:44:00
Now this is rather fun, a disc of music inspired by the Argentine tango nuevo but created by a Norwegian pianist composer. 8 Concepts of Tango is this third of Håkon Skogstad's trilogy of tango-inspired discs, following on from Visions of Tango with the Trondheim Soloists which was awarded a Norwegian Grammy for best classical album 2021.Skogstad created 8 Concepts of Tango with seven hand-picked musicians, all experts in the intersection of Argentine tango with classical music: Håkon Skogstad – pianist, Andreas Rokseth – bandoneón, Åsbjørg Ryeng - bandoneón, Sveinung Lillebjerka - violin, Anders Larsen - violin, Bergmund Waal Skaslien - viola, Marit Aspaas - cello, Ole Schøyen Sjölin - double bass. The music takes inspiration from Astor Piazzolla’s Octeto Buenos Aires, so we have eight musicians and eight compositions.The video is of the first track on the disc, Caserón Porteño which is Skogstad says is "dedicated to the hotel in Buenos Aires where we grew as young musicians through […]
2022-04-22 13:11:49
Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowMore than 50 virtuoso string players from across Europe played works from the very old to the brand new in an evening with plenty to admire but which fell short of its bold concept Two years after it was derailed by the pandemic, the Bridge festival, a pan-European celebration of music for strings, has come to Glasgow this weekend. This opening concert was a collaboration of the four participating ensembles: Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), PLMF Music Trust (Estonia), Trondheim Soloists (Norway) and the Scottish Ensemble, under the direction of conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire. Described as a conversation, a survey of the landscape of European music and a discussion between its heritage and contemporary composition, the concert spanned 900 years of repertoire and included two world premieres. Though the concept was bold, it felt like something of a lost opportunity; the potential of having 50 virtuoso string players together only realised […]
2022-03-10 07:40:31
A new festival celebrating music for strings, will be taking place across Glasgow from 21-24 April 2022. The Bridge Festival is being presented by four collaborating organisations from the UK, Germany, Norway, and Estonia - Scottish Ensemble, Trondheim Soloists, Ensemble Resonanz and PLMF Music Trust. Each organisation will present a headline concert, as well as creating collaborative events, with contributions from visual artists and musicians from non-classical genres. The festival opens with its most significant collaboration, Nachtmusik; over forty string musicians, including all three ensembles as well as musicians from the PLMF Music Trust umbrella, will take to the stage at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom performing a programme that centres around commissions from two very different composers, Mica Levi (UK) and Erkki-Sven Tüür (Estonia). PLF Music Trust will be presenting a concert of music by Estonian composers, focusing on four influential 20th-century figures, Jaan Rääts (1932-2020), Heino Eller (1887-1970), Helmut Rosenvald (1929-2020), and Rudolf […]
2020-04-02 09:41:00
Vienna, City of Dreams: Works by Haydn and Schoenberg
(This essay was first published to accompany a Pentatone disc of works by Haydn and Schoenberg, performed by Alisa Weilerstein and the Trondheim Soloists.) Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (‘Vienna, you city of my dreams’) is the title of a sentimental 1914 song by the Polish composer, Rudolf Sieczyński. One is tempted to anathematise it as the equivalent of a student-wall poster to real Gustav Klimt, a Sachertorte experience to the fractious coffee-house disputes of the era of Arnold Schoenberg and Leon Trotsky (sadly not with each other). Perhaps, though, that is unfair to Sieczyński as well as to Vienna. For dreams are rarely comfortable, often nightmares. They are rarely simple, either, any more than Vienna has ever been. Ask the Klytämnestra of Richard Strauss, one of a host of honorary Viennese more greatly honoured than its ‘own’, Schoenberg perhaps top of that list. […]
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