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Hillborg: Sirens; Cold Heat; Beast Sampler CD review – there's no doubt orchestras enjoy playing his music
Royal Stockholm PO/Oramo/Zinman/Salonen (BIS)Born in 1954, Anders Hillborg should now be of an age when composers have usually decided on the kind of music that they want to write. But the hugely productive composer remains hard to pin down, and the stylistic diversity in his output is illustrated perfectly by the first two works on this disc, which features pieces composed between 2010 and 2014. Beast Sampler is an anything-goes mix of ideas, many adopted from the electronic studio and combined into a vividly coloured orchestral collage. The sheer unlikeliness of the juxtapositions of glissandos and dense-packed clusters, microtones and snatches of brass chorale, often seem the work’s only raison d’etre. In total contrast, O Dessa Ögon for soprano and strings is a perfectly restrained, exquisite miniature, a setting of a poem by Gunnar Ekelöf in which the solo voice (Hannah Holgersson) climbs ever higher over comfortingly tonal strings, in a […]
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