Karin Rehnqvist: Klarinettenkonzert "On a Distant Shore" on CD
Klarinettenkonzert "On a Distant Shore"
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Expected availability end of September 2025
+Beginning für Klaviertrio; Arktis Arktis; I Himmelen für Chor & Solostimmen
- Artists:
- Martin Fröst, Kungsbacka Piano Trio, Adolf Fredrik's Girls Choir, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Bo Johansson, Petter Sundkvist, John Storgards
- Label:
- BIS
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2003-2005
- Item number:
- 2166577
- UPC/EAN:
- 7318590013960
- Release date:
- 2.6.2005
The music of Karin Rehnqvist has been described as »simultaneously radically new and very old.« This quality is the result of her interest in very different musical traditions: the modernist, constructivist approach to composition as represented by Brian Ferneyhough, with whom she studied, and the Swedish folk music tradition. One source of inspiration is an ancient vocal technique known as kulning, used by women herders to gather their flocks across great distances. Another is the use of micro intervals in traditional music. These and other features come to the fore on this portrait CD, where works from the past seven years have been collected: vocal and instrumental, chamber and orchestral. All of the works are being performed by the musicians and ensembles for whom they were conceived: with his trademark commitment Martin Fröst interprets the clarinet Concerto On a Distant Shore and the Adolf Fredrik's Girls Choir enter into the spirit of I himmelen (In Heaven's Hall), Rehnqvist's reinterpretation of a folk chorale. In the main orchestral work, Arktis, Arktis!, written after the composer's participation in a polar expedition, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra paints arctic landscapes and impressions, and the eminent young ensemble Kungsbacka Piano Trio – for the first time on BIS – renders Beginning, commissioned for them by BBC in 2003. 70 minutes of fascinating music from a fascinating composer whose previous disc on BIS caused the reviewer in Gramophone to recommend it »very, very strongly«.
Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 On A Distant Shore, concerto for clarinet & orchestra: I. The Dark
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2 On A Distant Shore, concerto for clarinet & orchestra: II. The Light
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3 On A Distant Shore, Concerto For Clarinet & Orchestra: Iii. The Wild
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4 On A Distant Shore, concerto for clarinet & orchestra: IV. The Singing
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5 On A Distant Shore, concerto for clarinet & orchestra: V. The Call
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6 Beginning, for piano trio: I. Dramatic
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7 Beginning, for piano trio: II. Tentative
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8 Beginning, For Piano Trio: Iii. Rise
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9 Arktis Arktis!, for orchestra: I. Breaking the Ice
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10 Arktis Arktis!, for orchestra: II. Between Sky and Sea
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11 Arktis Arktis!, For Orchestra: Iii. Interlude In Dark
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12 Arktis Arktis!, for orchestra: IV. Yearning
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13 I Hemmelen (In Heaven's Hall), for voice & treble choir
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