NOXAS Saxophone Quartet, Berit Norbakken, Nordic Voices, Kai Grinde Myrann – Amulets (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

NOXAS Saxophone Quartet, Berit Norbakken, Nordic Voices, Kai Grinde Myrann – Amulets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:57 minutes | 2,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics

NoXaS Saxophone Quartet was established in 2007 and since then has distinguished itself as a high-quality ensemble with several collaborations with elite Norwegian musicians and ensembles. Its main objective is to perform the best possible repertoire for this type of ensemble format while simultaneously building up a new repertoire together with composers and other performers. Through this work, NoXaS has cemented its position as a significant asset to the Norwegian music scene.

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Espen Aalberg, Trondheim Sinfonietta & Kai Grinde Myrann – Mantra (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Espen Aalberg, Trondheim Sinfonietta & Kai Grinde Myrann – Mantra (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:59 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

On this album, the Trondheim Sinfonietta, founded in 1998, has gathered four works from the three decades encompassing the ensemble’s existence. All four seem to be haunted by an even deeper past: Bent Sørensen’s Minnelieder is the composer’s third version of a work originally sparked-off by a book about the 14th century, while Toshio Hosokawa’s Drawing, from a decade later, was inspired by the very start of life. Kristin Norderval’s Chapel Meditation began its existence as an improvisation, but looks back to music from centuries earlier, while the most recent work, Mantra by Ellen Lindquist, also mines a venerable musical tradition, that of the age-old Indonesian gamelan orchestra that for over 100 years has had an influence on Western composers such as Debussy, Britten, Steve Reich et al. Set for varying forces and numbers of performers, the four works together form a fascinating picture of the kaleidoscopic possibilities open to composers around the turn of the millennium.

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