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2022-03-12 09:52:20
Having recently recorded Lasse Thoresen's virtuosic cello concerto, I chat to Norwegian cellist Amalie Stalheim about new music, and the continuing importance of the Romantic repertoire
Amalie Stalheim (Photo Arne Hyckenberg) In December 2021, the Norwegian cellist Amalie Stalheim released her debut album with the Oslo Philharmonic and Ingar Bergby on LAWO Classics, an EP featuring Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen’s Journey Through Three Valleys: Symphonic Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, an extremely technical and virtuosic, three-movement symphonic concerto that was premiered in 2008. Also last Autumn, Amalie was announced as the winner of the Norwegian Soloist Prize 2021, the prize for which includes a performance at the 2022 Bergen International Festival and a soloist assignment with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra that will also be broadcast by national broadcaster NRK. I recently spoke to Amalie to chat about Lasse Thoresen's concerto as well as her support for other contemporary cello works. The idea for recording Thoresen's concerto came from the Oslo Philharmonic. The orchestra had given the work's premiere in 2008 (with soloist Truls Mørk and […]
2021-06-12 23:53:56
After 15 days of events of all kinds, the Bergen International Festival on June 9 offered one last major performance mixing music and imagery. It was an rare presentation, performed simultaneously online and before a live audience, of a work created jointly in the late 1970s by the Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim and American [...]
2021-06-10 20:30:31
The Bergen International Festival takes its “international” modifier seriously. There are offerings in various genres and many that could be classified as experimental. The American Moth, to choose one of the signature 2021 presentations, is described as a “multi-media performance combining dance, theatre in multiple languages and cinematic live video” in the interests of exploring [...]