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Nils Petter Molvær & Norwegian Radio Orchestra – Certainty of Tides (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:53 minutes | 418 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The music for ‘Certainty of Tides’ was initially recorded with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra with Nils Petter Molvaer as a soloist in 2020. He had asked several wonderful Norwegian composers to arrange a set of music from his back catalogue. ‘Have a listen to the recordings I did with the orchestra and tell me what you think’ he told Norwegian composer, musician, and producer Jan Bang. Since the original recording was close mic’ed for broadcasting purposes, Bang saw an unfulfilled potential in the material due to lack of space in the initial recordings. Bang came up with the idea of re-amping the mixes playing the music through speakers in a concert house followed by re-recording of the result through distant microphones. With 76 speakers (one per instrument) carefully placed exactly like the orchestra would have been seated onstage, ‘Certainty of Tides’ was recorded from microphones strategically placed in the large hall of Kilden Concert House with phenomenal acoustics. The re-amping and re-recording produced astonishing results. Some of the pieces needed additional colour. Bang invited two of his highly talented electronic music students at the University of Agder (Kristian Isachsen and Even Sefenias Sigurdsen Frodesønn Røsstad). Both given freedoms to create their own sound based on their own personal taste. The final mixes were put together by Øyvind Kurszus at Kilden Studios supervised by both students, Molvaer and Bang. Helge Steen has mastered the recording. Knut Sævik has re-sampled the drum track (played by Peter Baden) on ‘Simply so’ and mixed the Song as well.
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Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 40 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:16 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
Mozart composed his last three symphonies (Nos. 39-41) in the space of six weeks during the summer of 1788, at a time when he had sunk into poverty, regularly borrowing money from his friend Michael Puchberg and pawning household items. In recent years he had been organising many concerts in Vienna and was equally in demand as a teacher. Then, in Prague, he had enjoyed the tremendous acclaim of his Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787). Now, however, he struggled to find subscribers for the publication of three string quintets and faced what seemed to be the end of his Viennese concerts. No doubt he recalled the warning of Count Karl Arco, court chamberlain to his employer at that time, the Archbishop of Salzburg – “A man’s reputation here [Vienna] lasts a very short time … after a few months the Viennese want something new.” Mozart had quickly outgrown his native city, while his unconcealed disdain for the archbishop’s boorish manner did nothing for their working relationship. In spite of Count Arco’s warning, his urge to leave for Vienna was unquenchable.
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Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Miguel Harth-Bedoya – Inca Trail Connections (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:29 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Caminos del Inca, or Inca Trails, is a road network that traverses South America connecting lands and peoples. The area’s musical traditions are ancient and varied, taking in indigenous sounds as well as European influences, and the composers represented on this album have all been inspired by this musical legacy, the people of their homeland, and the land itself. The interconnections include late-Romanticism, folkloric dances, reinterpretation of popular music, mestizo (“hybrid”) elements, Stravinsky-like primitivism, and music of simplicity and beauty that both captures and celebrates village life.
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Norwegian Radio Orchestra – Journeys: Orchestral Music from Five Continents (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:08 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Classical
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Peruvian-born, American-trained conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, is inspired to look at how music, like the poetic concept of peace, can unite the world. The idea behind the programme “Journeys” is to create an example of that unity in a tangible form by bringing together music from every continent into one album. With works inspired by myths and mechanics, cosmic motion and human emotion, originating from Europe and the Americas to Africa, Asia and Australasia, the themes in this collection of world premiere recordings range as widely as their origins.
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The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Grete Pedersen – Berio: Coro & Cries of London (Version for 8 Voices) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:26 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Luciano Berios Coro has been described as the work that exemplifies all the qualities that made him one of the leading composers of our time. The works full title is Coro for voices and instruments, and the 40 voices and 44 instrumentalists do indeed make up a single choir instrumentalists and singers sit together, with each singer paired with a particular player, and used both as soloists and combined in mass effects. Composed in 1976, Coro is also a strikingly global work: Berios use of texts (mainly translations of folk poetry) attributed to peoples Peruvian, Croatian, Sioux turns the work into a chorus of cultures. The texts are laid out in 31 separate sections of varying length, but the overall effect is cumulative, not episodic. Under its artistic director Grete Pedersen the Norwegian Soloists Choir has made acclaimed recordings of music ranging from Norwegian folk songs and Hildegard of Bingen to Bach, Brahms and Xenakis. Joined by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra it now takes on one of the major choral works of the past 50 years. The disc closes with Berios smaller scale Cries of London, performed by members of the choir.
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Marianne Beate Kielland, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Petr Popelka – Sibelius: Orchestral Songs (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:18 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland is famous for her strong stage presence and musical integrity. Gramophone Magazine writes about her: The mezzo-soprano is quite outstanding: strong, firm, sensitive in modulations, imaginative in her treatment of words, with a voice pure in quality, wide in range and unfalteringly true in intonation. Considered today one of Europes leading singers, she says of this new recording: “As my career has progressed, I have had the chance to make numerous recordings featuring a variety of repertoires, and I have always felt the desire to record the songs of Sibelius. A wonderful opportunity presented itself when the Norwegian Radio Orchestra with Chief Conductor Petr Popelka expressed its willingness to be part of such a recording. Virtually all Sibelius songs are written for voice and piano, but many of them seem as though made for orchestral sounds and instrumental subtlety. Therefore a number of his finest songs have fortunately been orchestrated, and it is these editions we have used for this recording. A few of the orchestrations were done by Sibelius himself, one by his contemporary, Simon Parmet (n Pergament), while several were orchestrated by his own son-in-law, conductor Jussi Jalas. This album presents orchestrated songs of Sibelius from four opus numbers: 17, 36, 37 and 38.
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