Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer - A Desperate Light: Orchestral Works by Gisle Kverndokk (2024) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer
- Title: A Desperate Light: Orchestral Works by Gisle Kverndokk
- Year Of Release: 2024
- Label: Lawo Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 192.0kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:16:46
- Total Size: 356 mb / 2.54 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Three pictures Suite for Orchestra: I. Rue Lafayette
02. Three pictures Suite for Orchestra: II. Night in St. Cloud
03. Three pictures Suite for Orchestra: III. At the roulette table in Monte Carlo
04. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": I. London - Phileas starts his journey around the world
05. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": II. Paris - Violettas seduction
06. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": III. Rome - Toscas death
07. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": IV. Suez - Salomes dance
08. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": V. Beijing - Phileas Fogg heroically escapes the claws of Turandot
09. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": VI. Romance in The Pacific Ocean
10. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": VII. Finale, Phileas Foggs victorious return to London
11. A Desperate Light
The piece opens as a cry for help. It is the struggle and despair of being locked up, wings clipped, denied access to life, without knowing when it will all be over. Relations, isolation, the longing to meet others again – everything we experienced together during the COVID lockdown.
This is a work tailor-made for a choreographer, and once again I am struck by how visually Kverndokk composes, and with what agility.
The source of inspiration here is stated by the composer himself: it is a tribute to Leonard Bernstein, inspired by maestro Bernstein’s symphony “The Age of Anxiety”.
But what is impressive and fascinating is this: despite the nod to his hero in his themes that touch upon scenes in “West Side Story, such as “Mambo” and “The Rumble”, it is Kverndokk through and through, and not Bernstein.
When all is said and done, I would like to quote Stephen Sondheim, who also wrote the lyrics to “West Side Story”, and the protagonist of his musical, “Sunday in the Park with George”: Finishing the hat, mapping out the sky! That is always what it’s about.
The work was written during the pandemic, but it would be inappropriate to associate it with this period, for the dramatic scope of the work is larger than what the lockdown of the country gave us.
01. Three pictures Suite for Orchestra: I. Rue Lafayette
02. Three pictures Suite for Orchestra: II. Night in St. Cloud
03. Three pictures Suite for Orchestra: III. At the roulette table in Monte Carlo
04. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": I. London - Phileas starts his journey around the world
05. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": II. Paris - Violettas seduction
06. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": III. Rome - Toscas death
07. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": IV. Suez - Salomes dance
08. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": V. Beijing - Phileas Fogg heroically escapes the claws of Turandot
09. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": VI. Romance in The Pacific Ocean
10. Symphonic Suite from "Around the World in 80 Days": VII. Finale, Phileas Foggs victorious return to London
11. A Desperate Light
The piece opens as a cry for help. It is the struggle and despair of being locked up, wings clipped, denied access to life, without knowing when it will all be over. Relations, isolation, the longing to meet others again – everything we experienced together during the COVID lockdown.
This is a work tailor-made for a choreographer, and once again I am struck by how visually Kverndokk composes, and with what agility.
The source of inspiration here is stated by the composer himself: it is a tribute to Leonard Bernstein, inspired by maestro Bernstein’s symphony “The Age of Anxiety”.
But what is impressive and fascinating is this: despite the nod to his hero in his themes that touch upon scenes in “West Side Story, such as “Mambo” and “The Rumble”, it is Kverndokk through and through, and not Bernstein.
When all is said and done, I would like to quote Stephen Sondheim, who also wrote the lyrics to “West Side Story”, and the protagonist of his musical, “Sunday in the Park with George”: Finishing the hat, mapping out the sky! That is always what it’s about.
The work was written during the pandemic, but it would be inappropriate to associate it with this period, for the dramatic scope of the work is larger than what the lockdown of the country gave us.
Year 2024 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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