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Ragnhild Hemsing, Trondheim Soloists – Grieg: Peer Gynt (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:11 minutes | 925 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
The spirit of adventure, braggadocio and tall stories… for her second album on the Berlin Classics label, the Norwegian violinist and Hardanger fiddler Ragnhild Hemsing has chosen to focus on one of Norway’s best known and most legendary characters: Peer Gynt. Although her solo instruments are not part of the original orchestra formation, she chose various sections of the incidental music to the stage play of Peer Gynt op. 23 and had them arranged for her Hardanger fiddle and the violin with string orchestra accompaniment – thereby creating a link to the traditional story of Peer Gynt in the context of Norwegian folk music.
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Mari Samuelsen, Håkon Samuelsen, Trondheim Soloists – Nordic Noir (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:06 minutes | 796 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX
The Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen examines the fascinating world of Scandinavian film music on her solo album „Nordic Noir“. “Nordic Noir” stands for dark Scandinavian drama and crime series. You can listen to the music of this cinematic genre sounds on the album of the same name that Mari Samuelsen has recorded. In a duo with her brother Håkon Samuelsen, the violinist has long been known for exploring new sound environments and interpreting the works of contemporary composers. Together with Max Richter and the “12 ensemble”, she regularly explores the broad spectrum of modern classical music.
With „Nordic Noir“, Mari Samuelsen presents her recording debut as a soloist and devotes herself to mysterious, gloomy and melancholic compositions, which convey and characterize the character of Scandinavian crime stories that have established themselves over the last years as an independent genre. The works are written by Ólafur Arnalds, Frans Bak, Uno Helmersson, Johan Söderqvist and Arvo Pärt, and some of them have been created in close collaboration with the artist so that Mari Samuelsen has penetrated the music with her personality and created recordings whose authentic charisma get under your skin.
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Frode Haltli, Arditti Quartet & Trondheim Soloists – Air (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:51 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
Frode Haltli, the uniquely expressive Norwegian accordionist, is heard here with chamber orchestra, with string quartet and solo, performing music by Danish composers Bent Sørensen (b. 1958) and Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952). Haltli plays Sørensen’s It is Pain Flowing Down Softly on a White Wall with the Trondheim Soloists, as well as the solo piece Sigrid’s Lullaby. Hans Abrahamsen’s Three Little Nocturnes find the accordionist in the company of the redoubtable Arditti Quartet, “a vital institution in contemporary music” as Haltli says. For the title composition Air, Hans Abrahamsen returned, at Frode Haltli’s suggestion, to the early solo work Canzona, revising it until it became a new piece. Of Abrahamsen’s music, Frode Haltli writes that “not one note is accidental, nor are any of the other specifications. Sometimes, this results in very complex music, while a moment later it is so simple that it seems a child could perform it. He writes music that can be on the verge of being discomforting, while at the same time it is indescribably lovely.”
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Ana de la Vega, Ramón Ortega Quero, Trondheim Soloists – Haydn, A. Stamitz & C. Stamitz: Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:36 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
Flautist Ana de la Vega teams up with two-time ECHO award-winning oboist Ramón Ortega Quero and the Trondheim Soloists on her second PENTATONE album, to explore the intricate and unique relationship between flute and oboe in concertos by Joseph Haydn and Carl Stamitz. The programme consists of two concertos Haydn originally designed for two lire organizzate, as well as Stamitz’s Concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra in G major. The recording also features the latter’s vibrant and virtuosic but rarely recorded Flute Concerto in D major, which offers some of the finest writing for flute of the entire Classical era.
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Alisa Weilerstein, Trondheim Soloists – Transfigured Night – Haydn & Schoenberg (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:58 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
In what sense Hayden’s two concertos for cello – at least, the two that we know of as his, although he surely wrote more – are the fruit of a “Transfigured Night” is not clear, and isn’t made more so by reading the booklet, although it is very interesting, historically speaking. But on the other hand, of course, Schönberg’s Transfigured Night, still a classic of his tonal and post-Wagnerian works, clearly justifies the title. Hayden’s concertos are played by the magnificent American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, herself a “privileged partner” of Trondheim Soloists who accompany her here (without a conductor) and give us Schönberg’s version for string orchestra. Given that Trondheim is slap bang in the middle of Norway, we can well imagine how the night and the twilight – which lasts most of the day for several months every year – must be full of images of transfigurations to inspire our musicians! And let’s recall briefly how this ensemble, founded in 1988, recorded the Four Seasons with Anne-Sophie Mutter in 1999, a veritable stepping stone to international fame.
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