Terje Rypdal: Melodic Warrior

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Terje Rypdal is hard to pin down stylistically...His interest in unusual instrumental combinations and textures is reminiscent of his ECM stablemate Eleni Karaindrou, though rather different... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2014 More…

Release Date: 24th Jun 2013
Catalogue No: 3729504
Label: ECM
Length: 71 minutes

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Rypdal: Awakening

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: Easy Now

Work length4:30

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: Song Of Thunders

Work length2:54

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: The Secret File

Work length5:48

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: My Music Reaches To The Sky

Work length4:25

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: But Then Again

Work length3:39

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: A Prayer

Work length6:13

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: Magician Song

Work length9:16

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: The Morning Star

Work length4:09

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The Hilliard Ensemble, Terje Rypdal (guitar), David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2003-12

Rypdal: I

Work length6:51

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Terje Rypdal (guitar)
Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra
Sebastian Perłowski
Recorded: 2009-11

Rypdal: II

Work length7:01

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Terje Rypdal (guitar)
Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra
Sebastian Perłowski
Recorded: 2009-11

Rypdal: III

Work length7:50

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Terje Rypdal (guitar)
Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra
Sebastian Perłowski
Recorded: 2009-11

Rypdal: IV

Work length5:30

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Terje Rypdal (guitar)
Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra
Sebastian Perłowski
Recorded: 2009-11

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Two large compositions, ‘Melodic Warrior’ and ‘And The Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls And Angels’ constitute one of Terje Rypdal’s most adventurous albums. The title piece, a 45 minute epic, was commissioned by The Hilliard Ensemble and recorded in 2003 with the British vocal group and the Bruckner Orchester Linz under Dennis Russell Davies. The Hilliards sing texts drawn from Native American poetry powerfully echoing the natural world, from Chippewa, Navajo, Pima, and Papago sources, and Rypdal’s sustained electric guitar lines soar melodically and dramatically above the strings’ broad planes of sound.

‘And The Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls And Angels’ meanwhile, documents the premiere of Terje’s op. 97. Composed in 2009, inspired by Cannes’ International Fireworks Festival and recorded with the Wroclaw Philharmonic, it is a darkly-expressive piece of concentrated, explosive power. Both pieces could only have been written by Terje Rypdal, a musician who has spent much of his creative life in the spaces between the genres.

Rypdal’s journey as a composer of works for ensembles and orchestras began in the late 1960s. Already established in Norway as a rock and pop guitarist, he was beginning to explore jazz improvisation in the company of George Russell and Jan Garbarek, when exposure to the music of Ligeti and Penderecki opened up new and compelling soundworlds.

From 1969 he studied composition under Finn Mortensen and in 1971 premiered his first big piece, Eternal Circulation, with the Oslo Philharmonic and the Jan Garbarek Group. 1973’s Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away was an early recorded instance of Terje’s combining of improvised and notated elements in a strikingly original - and influential - chamber music outside the genres.

Since then other Rypdal ECM recordings with large instrumental forces include the awardwinning “Undisonus” with Terje Tønnesen and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, “Q.E.D.” (recorded 1991), “Double Concerto/5th Symphony” (1998), “Lux Aeterna” (2000), and “Crime Scene” (2009), the latter with the Bergen Big Band.

Reviews

April 2014

Terje Rypdal is hard to pin down stylistically...His interest in unusual instrumental combinations and textures is reminiscent of his ECM stablemate Eleni Karaindrou, though rather different in style and without her taste in exotica.

18th September 2013

This is a release which fizzes with ambition and sonic spectacle

24th August 2013

this is a fun listen, heard in a full-blooded live performance...Performances and recording are excellent, with Sebastien Perłowski’s Wrocław Philharmonic forces outstanding in the latter work.

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