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Songs and One Symphony

Mona Larsen (vocals), Michael Mantler (trumpet), Bjarne Roupé (guitar), Marianne Sørensen (violin), Mette Winther (viola), Gunnar Lychou (viola), Helle Sørensen (cello), Kim Kristensen (piano/synthesizer)

Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, Peter Rundel

Release Date: 7th Feb 2000
Catalogue No: 5430362
Label: ECM
Length: 53 minutes

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Michael Mantler: Opening / So Far / For Ever / Interlude / Nothing More / Darker Than The Light

Work length5:25

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The Chamber Music and Songs Ensemble, Michael Mantler (trumpet), Mona Larsen (voice), Kim Kristensen (synthesizer), Gunnar Lychou (viola), Bjarne Roupé (guitar), Marianne Sorensen (violin), Mette Winther (viola), Helle Sorensen (cello), Kim Kristensen (piano)
Recorded: 2000
Recording Venue: Danish Radio Studios (Radiohuset)

Michael Mantler: How Long Are Our Nights

Work length2:54

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The Chamber Music and Songs Ensemble, Michael Mantler (trumpet), Mona Larsen (voice), Kim Kristensen (synthesizer), Gunnar Lychou (viola), Bjarne Roupé (guitar), Marianne Sorensen (violin), Mette Winther (viola), Helle Sorensen (cello), Kim Kristensen (piano)
Recorded: 2000
Recording Venue: Danish Radio Studios (Radiohuset)

Michael Mantler: Mark, Nothing Appears / Everything Seems / The Breath Exchanged / Speechless

Work length6:22

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The Chamber Music and Songs Ensemble, Michael Mantler (trumpet), Mona Larsen (voice), Kim Kristensen (synthesizer), Gunnar Lychou (viola), Bjarne Roupé (guitar), Marianne Sorensen (violin), Mette Winther (viola), Helle Sorensen (cello), Kim Kristensen (piano)
Recorded: 2000
Recording Venue: Danish Radio Studios (Radiohuset)

Michael Mantler: One Symphony

Work length13:35

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Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt
Peter Rundel
Recorded: 2000
Recording Venue: Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt

Michael Mantler: One Symphony

Work length8:01

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Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt
Peter Rundel
Recorded: 2000
Recording Venue: Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt

Michael Mantler: One Symphony

Work length7:10

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Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt
Peter Rundel
Recorded: 2000
Recording Venue: Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt

Michael Mantler: One Symphony

Work length10:11

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Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt
Peter Rundel
Recorded: 2000
Recording Venue: Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt

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“One Symphony”, commissioned by German Radio and conducted with sensitivity by Peter Rundel, is contrasted here with settings of Ernst Meister texts performed by the Chamber Music and Songs Ensemble which Michael Mantler formed soon after relocating to Copenhagen in the early 1990s. The Ensemble features singer Mona Larsen and guitarist Bjarne Roupé, best known for his contribution to Miles Davis’s “Aura”. The stark and impressive “One symphony” is modestly described by its composer: “The basic concept was ‘symphony’ in its most elementary form – simply the utilisation of a relatively large number and variety of instruments to perform musical materials organised to create a larger whole with a logical continuity. There is no programmatic content or message. It should exist as a piece of pure music, leaving the listeners to arrive at their own emotional interpretations. The neutral title was chosen for that reason as well as to suggest it being one of many possible symphonies.”

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