Special offer. Hvoslef Chamber Works No. VI
Hvoslef Chamber Music Project
Hvoslef’s music is difficult to categorize, but on the basis of the works on this program, almost always interesting. Whether quirky, amusing, bizarre, eccentric, peculiar, or mock serious,...
Special offer. Hvoslef Chamber Works No. VI
Hvoslef Chamber Music Project
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Hvoslef’s music is difficult to categorize, but on the basis of the works on this program, almost always interesting. Whether quirky, amusing, bizarre, eccentric, peculiar, or mock serious,...
About
Ketil Hvoslef (b. 1939) is a productive, versatile and undogmatic composer who - in the year he turns 80 - continues to write music at a furious pace.
Hvoslef’s style is characterized by an economy of means, the accumulation of latent energy, rhythmical ingenuity and, often, an element of humour.
“Hvoslef Chamber Works No. VI” is the sixth in a series of nine albums of Ketil Hvoslef’s chamber music. The idea to document 38 of Hvoslef’s chamber music works on CD was initiated by violinist Ricardo Odriozola and pianist Einar Rotingen, both with backgrounds spanning many years of cooperation with the composer.
The recordings draw from the vast pool of performers in Bergen, where the composer lives and works. The musicians are primarily from the Grieg Academy (University of Bergen) and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Contents and tracklist
- Clare Farr, Audun Breen, Petter Winroth, Sverre Riise
- Hvoslef Chamber Music Project
- Ricardo Odriozola
- Ilze Klava, John Ehde, Mara Haugen, Diego Lucchesi
- Hvoslef Chamber Music Project
- Ricardo Odriozola
- Håkon Asheim, Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, Einar Røttingen
- Hvoslef Chamber Music Project
- Ricardo Odriozola
- Vladimíra Ščigulinská, Håvard Løkting Larsen, Oddhild Nyberg, Eugenio Meneghel, Sigvald Fersum, Carmen Bóveda, Aksel Hovdar, Isabel María Velasco, Christina Jønsi, Kaia Rullestad Teigen, Fredrik Schjerve, Eirik Waldeland, Frida Andreassen Lereng
- Hvoslef Chamber Music Project
- Ricardo Odriozola
Awards and reviews
March/April 2020
Hvoslef’s music is difficult to categorize, but on the basis of the works on this program, almost always interesting. Whether quirky, amusing, bizarre, eccentric, peculiar, or mock serious, it is always accessible and listenable.Performances are mostly by Bergen musicians, all of them excellent. Of special note is the pure, creamy voice of soprano Kaia Rullestad Teigen in the three Harding Trios.
