Norwegian Radio Orchestra - Orchestral Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Trygve Aarvik has been one of Norway's leading oboists for decades. As the solo oboist in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra between 1981 and 2018, he is also the most heard oboist in Norway, with countless radio and television broadcasts to his name - IncheveryoneInch has heard Trygve's singing oboe. Now he steps forth as soloist in works by three central Norwegian composers. The newest and most broadly conceived work among them is a concerto for oboe and orchestra by Kjell Habbestad, in addition to two hidden classics, InchCantus VIIIInch by Egil Hovland for oboe and string quartet and InchConcerto for Oboe and StringsInch by Johan Kvandal. The string quartet consists of Kolbjørn Holthe and Henrik Hannisdal on violins, Jon Sønstebø on viola and Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen on cello; Ingar Bergby is conducting. In InchCantus VIIIInch we find the essence of several of Hovland's many sources of inspiration both post-war musical modernism and his close relations to sacred music. In Kvandal, the influence from folk music is more prominent, and Trygve is in particular given the opportunity to amaze with long, beautiful lines for the solo oboe in the second movement of the concerto. Kjell Habbestad's concerto for oboe was ordered by Trygve Aarvik and had it's world premiere with Aarvik and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in 2012. For all his stylistic eclecticism, one finds that Habbestad is firmly based in the sacred music tradition, like Hovland. Habbestad draws inspiration from famous poems (Plath, Celan, Bjerke and more). The piece traverses through all the planes of human existences, from everyday life, through emotions and memories, and ends on a spiritual-religious level. With broad orchestral brushstrokes and a virtuoso solo part, the concerto is an important contribution to Norwegian music in general and to the oboe repertoire in particular. Album Tracks 1. Can

These three works by the Romanian composer Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea (b. 1959) show her approach to three of the central genres of the western classical tradition symphony, concerto and cantata. The powerful and programmatic Archimedes Symphony was inspired by the death of Archimedes in the siege of Syracuse in 214 bc; the Rite for Enchanting the Air - a concerto for various flutes and orchestra - is a kind of magical journey into a dizzying world of sound and colour; and the cantata Mysterium tremendum aims to reconcile Byzantine and Catholic liturgical traditions. All three make clear her fascination with orchestral timbre and texture - and have distant roots in Romanian folk-music.

Album Tracks 1. Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1 in a Major 2. Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2 in G Major 3. Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 17 4. Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 19 5. Norwegian Rhapsody No. 3, Op. 21 6. Norwegian Rhapsody No. 4, Op. 22