Giuseppe Maletto - L'homme Arme - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Overture to Rossini's Opera 'La Gazza Ladra' 2. Gran Variazioni Concertanti, Op. 35 3. Overture to Rossini's Opera 'Il Barbiere Di Siviglia' 4. Overture to Rossini's Opera 'La Cenerentola' 5. Overture to Rossini's Opera 'L'assedio Di Corinto' 6. Variazioni Concertanti, Op. 130 7. I 8. II 9. III

Album Tracks 1. Elegie in E minor 2. Scherzo in E Major 3. Canzonette in a Minor 4. Humoreske in G Major 5. Barcarole in F Major 6. I. Allegro Con Fuoco 7. II. Andante 8. III. Allegretto 9. IV. Molto Allegro E Appassionato 10. Capriccio in E-Flat Major 11. Romanza in D Major 12. Intermezzo in B Major 13. Novelletta in A-Flat Major 14. Scherzo in a Major 15. Moderato in F minor 16. Allegretto Vivo in A-Flat Major 17. Molto Vivace in E Major 18. Allegro Non Troppo in G minor 19. Aquarel 20. Humoreske in a Minor 21. Notturno in E Major 22. Scherzo in D-Flat Major 23. Romanza in a Major 24. Capriccio in F Major 25. Chanson Danoise

The Norwegian Naval Forces' Band (SFMK) has become acquainted with Ketil Hvoslef, both as a person and as a composer, over a period of several years. This musical cooperation and these personal encounters have been invaluable for SFMK. Hvoslef's generation is not one with a close connection to the digital world. He has only recently learned to use email. Our face-to-face meetings have given us a clear insight into his personal approach to music, as well as a richer perspective on the music than what the score alone could grant us. It has always been both desirable and natural for SFMK to engage with local composers and commission works from them. Having a well established composer with such a clear voice in Norwegian cultural life in our midst, it was only a matter of time before we approached Hvoslef about a possible cooperation. It began with the work L'homme armé from 2012, which lends it's title to this . Hvoslef has a secure place in Norway's music history canon. He can be considered a bridge between his father Harald Sæverud's generation and today's younger composers. Hvoslef is entirely uncompromising in his approach to composition and seems to have only a casual interest in the musical environment. According to him, his only contact with cultural life is listening to Italian radio and he claims that he has little idea of what other Norwegian composers are up to. One can sense this clearly in his music; he is true to himself and his ideas whether he writes for wind band, chamber groups or symphony orchestras. It has been enriching for the Norwegian Naval Forces' Band to partake of the inebriating bubble inside which Hvoslefand his music have invited us. Album Tracks 1. Cantus Lutra Lutra In Memory of a Drowned Otter 2. Mockingbird II for Military Band 3. Homme Armé