Ståle Kleiberg, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra; Peter Szilvay – Ståle Kleiberg: Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 58:06 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ståle Kleiberg’s concertos unfold in the space between poetry, passion and playfulness. This is contemporary music with which listeners can easily engage, but which does not for one moment compromise artistic quality. “I try to form the musical expression so that it corresponds with my experience of life; or, to put it another way, to form it so that it is in accord with my conception of what it means to be a human being,” says Kleiberg about himself and his music.
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Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra & Peter Szilvay – Groven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
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Many interwar Norwegian composers tried to create a new national music by combining elements of authentic folk music with new techniques. Eivind Groven was considered one of the most innovative composers in this quest, integrating the structure of folk dances from his rural upbringing into familiar formal principles. Both symphonies make use of techniques of so-called ‘progressive transformation’, which led fellow composer Arne Nordheim to declare: ‘While others made instrumentations of folk tunes, Groven created sounds, for example in his [two] symphonies which, in my opinion, are quite unique’.
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