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Geirr Tveitt: From a Travel Diary

World Premiere Recording

Fragaria Vesca: Tor Johan Bøen, Yi Yang (violin), Bénedicte Royer (viola), Cecilie Løken (flute), Christian Mortensen (double bass), Johanna Nousiainen (harp), Johannes Martenens (cello), Rune Brodal (French horn) & Steffen Bliindheim (oboe, cor anglais)

Both [Husguden and Frå ei reisedagbok] receive very neat performances, although the recordings are close-miked and a touch claustrophobic...The two fillers...have a galumphing charm, as if being... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 More…

Release Date: 15th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: PSC1222
Label: Simax
Length: 48 minutes

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, I Middelhavet / The Mediterranean (Andante)

Work length5:21

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, II Via Appia (Adagio)

Work length3:03

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, III Sicilia (Allegretto deciso)

Work length1:46

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, IV Tripoli (Tranquillo e grazioso)

Work length3:01

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, V Sirocco

Work length1:31

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, VI El Escorial (Lento misterioso)

Work length3:17

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, VII Sevilla (Ritmico)

Work length3:37

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Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok / From a travel diary – quartet for strings, 8 movements in suite form, VIII Stjernehimmel over Sahara / Starry skies over the Sahara (Lento)

Work length5:21

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Tveitt: Husguden / The household god – ballet in 12 scenes for 2 violins, viola, cello, flute, oboe, cor anglais horn and harp, op.184

Work length16:35

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Tveitt: Septet – for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, oboe and horn

Work length2:18

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Tveitt: Jonsokkvelden / Midsummer's eve – septet for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, cor anglais and horn

Work length3:08

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Fragaria Vesca

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World premiere recordings of several chamber works by leading 20th-century Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt are performed on a new album “From a Travel Diary” by the highly-regarded ensemble, Fragaria Vesca. The compositions they have chosen include the eight-movement suite of the title, the ballet music “The Household God”, and two septets for strings and wind instruments.

Violinist Tor Johan Bøen is the founder of Fragaria Vesca, an ensemble dedicated to musical performance on original instruments. At the age of 13 he won the Norwegian competition for young violinists, and at 17 he joined the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

He is noted for his performances of music from the Baroque era to the early 20th century. His research on the music of the Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe has resulted in several recordings, including his critically acclaimed disc of Ysaÿe string trios for Simax (PSC1295).

Few composers surrounded themselves and their work with such aura of mystique and disarray as did Norwegian Geirr Tveitt. Born in 1908, he wrote around 250 pieces before his death in 1981. Sadly a fire at the Tveitt farm in 1970 is said to have destroyed most of his musical manuscripts, although copies of some of these works have surfaced over the last decades. The material for this recording has been painstakingly edited by Tor Johan Bøen, some of it based only on a radio recording.

Reviews

January 2012

Both [Husguden and Frå ei reisedagbok] receive very neat performances, although the recordings are close-miked and a touch claustrophobic...The two fillers...have a galumphing charm, as if being danced to by a troupe of infant pachyderms.

February 2012

Throughout, Tviett's mastery of subtle instrumental colour is on display, and the performers of Fragaria Vesca contribute sympathetic and finely shaded performances that show off the various contrasted works to best advantage.

Classical Music 23rd September 2011

[From a Travel Diary's] eight movements are less attempts at a bogus ethnicity than at conjuring up a variety of moods - and as such are a rewarding play for string quartet. As is the irascible Norwegian's surprisingly jolly ballet score The Household God.

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