Nøringen by Anders Eidsten Dahl & Vegard Landaas

Various composers

Anders Eidsten Dahl & Vegard Landaas

Nøringen

Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020181813
Catnr: LWC 1159
Release date: 07 September 2018
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Label
Lawo Classics

UPC
7090020181813

Catalogue number
LWC 1159

Release date
07 September 2018

Album

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About the album

A common theme on this recording is traditional music. [“Nøringen” is the name of a well-known 'gangar', a Norwegian traditional dance. It was especially popular in Vestlandet, the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway. The dance tune was played the morning after the wedding, when the guests were served food and drink, often after having danced all night. The word means nourishment (food).]

FROM THE ARTISTS:
Saxophone and organ sound good together and complement each other well, yet little music has been written for this instrumental combination. For this reason, we are always looking for music that works well and often it is music written for instruments other than our own. Part of the effort of finding good music involves getting accomplished composers and arrangers to write for us. This recording is the concrete result of a concert tour we undertook in Slovakia during some hectic days in the summer of 2017. It features a broad range of music, and the quality, we feel, merits being presented on this album. In addition to the rehearsed repertoire, Bjørn Luksengård (b. 1956), church organist in Sande, Vestfold, sent us his arrangements and compositions during the tour. To some extent we developed the repertoire between the concerts and also tried out some of the music in concert situations.

Not long after returning to Norway, we met for several intense days of recording in Strømsø Church in Drammen. It is one of Norway’s largest wooden churches and acquired its Mühleisen organ with 31 stops in 2011. The melodious organ and the church’s good acoustics gave us the conditions we were looking for.

Ein gemeinsames Thema dieser Aufnahme ist die traditionelle Musik. "Nøringen" ist der Name eines bekannten'Gangars', eines norwegischen traditionellen Tanzes. Besonders beliebt war er in Vestlandet, der Region entlang der Atlantikküste Südnorwegens. Die Tanzmelodie wurde am Morgen nach der Hochzeit gespielt, wenn den Gästen Essen und Trinken serviert wurden, oft nachdem sie die ganze Nacht getanzt hatten. Das Wort bedeutet Nahrung.
Saxophon und Orgel klingen gut zusammen und ergänzen sich gut, doch für diese Instrumentalkombination wurde wenig Musik geschrieben. Aus diesem Grund sind wir immer auf der Suche nach Musik, die gut klingt und oft ist es Musik, die für andere als unsere eigenen Instrumente geschrieben wurde. Ein Teil der Bemühungen, gute Musik zu finden, besteht darin, versierte Komponisten und Arrangeure dazu zu bringen, für uns zu schreiben. Diese Aufnahme ist das konkrete Ergebnis einer Konzerttournee, die wir während einiger hektischer Tage im Sommer 2017 in der Slowakei unternommen haben. Es bietet eine breite Palette von Musik und die Qualität, verdient es, auf diesem Album präsentiert zu werden. Neben dem geprobten Repertoire schickte uns Bjørn Luksengård (*1956), Kirchenorganist in Sande, Vestfold, seine Arrangements und Kompositionen während der Tournee. Zum Teil haben wir das Repertoire zwischen den Konzerten weiterentwickelt und auch Teile der Musik in Konzertsituationen ausprobiert.
Kurz nach unserer Rückkehr nach Norwegen trafen wir uns für mehrere intensive Tage in der Strømsø Kirche in Drammen. Sie ist eine der größten Holzkirchen Norwegens und hat ihre Mühleisen Orgel mit 31 Registern im Jahr 2011 erworben. Die klangvolle Orgel und die gute Akustik der Kirche gaben uns die Bedingungen, die wir suchten.

Artist(s)

Anders Eidsten Dahl (organ)

Anders Eidsten Dahl (b. 1976 in Drammen) graduated with a degree in church music from the Norwegian Academy of Music and later completed a Master’s degree in solo organ performance at the same institution. Following two years of solo performance study at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, he gave debut concerts in Copenhagen and Oslo in 2003. He has studied organ with Professor Terje Winge, cathedral organist Kåre Nordstoga and Professor Hans Fagius.
Eidsten Dahl is much in demand as organ soloist, chamber musician and harpsichordist, and he has given organ concerts at festivals in a number of European countries. His repertoire spans from the Baroque to the music of today, with emphasis on J. S. Bach and organ music from the Romantic period. Since 2001 he has served as organist and director of music at Bragernes Church in Drammen, where he is artistic and administrative director of the church’s organ concert series.
A recipient of the Government Work Scholarship for Younger and Newly Established Artists, Eidsten Dahl has released a number of critically acclaimed albums on the LAWO Classics label. He is also Associate Professor of organ at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

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Vegard Landaas (saxophone)

Vegard Landaas (born 1973) received his diploma in 2000 from the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he studied with Harald Bergersen and was the first student with saxophone as principal instrument.
Landaas has received sparkling reviews for his solo concertos. His repertoire features a number of solo and chamber concertos with works from the standard literature and a special emphasis on music of contemporary composers. Among those who have dedicated compositions to him are Jon Balke, Olav Berg, Therese Birkelund Ulvo, Håvard Caspersen, Roy Hellvin, Risto Holopeinen, Vidar Johansen, Bjørn Kruse, Mauritz Løvgren, Yngve Slettholm, Jens Wendelboe, and Øivind Westby.
Landaas has been a soloist with various orchestras, choirs, and bands. The many major ensembles throughout the country with which he has performed include the Oslo Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Oslo Sinfonietta, and the BIT 20 Ensemble (Bergen Ensemble for Contemporary Music). In August, 2004 Landaas recorded the saxophone concerto “The Nights Exist” with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (Aurora Records). The piece was composed by Yngve Slettholm and dedicated to Landaas, who premiered the work with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in the spring of 2000. As a member of NoXaS Saxophone Quartet, he premiered Olav Anton Thommessen’s “Tuba mirum” with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in the autumn of 2010. Landaas has previously participated on the recordings “Yngve Slettholm Chamber Music for Saxophone and Percussion” (LWC1017) and “The Golden Hindemith” (LWC1005). With organist Anders Eidsten Dahl he has previously released “Aria” (LWC1046). Landaas has also produced numerous recordings for classical artists.

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Composer(s)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth. Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

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Nils Lindberg

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré was a French Romantic composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Nocturnes for piano and the songs Après un rêve and Clair de lune. Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.
Fauré's music has been described as linking the end of Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century. When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of Fauré's death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being heard. During the last twenty years of his life, he suffered from increasing deafness. In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his works from this period are sometimes elusive and withdrawn in character, and at other times turbulent and impassioned.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the classical repertoire.
Born into a musical family, Rachmaninov took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 and had composed several piano and orchestral pieces by this time. In 1897, following the critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. After the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninov and his family left Russia and resided in the United States, first in New York City. Demanding piano concert tour schedules caused his output as composer to slow tremendously; between 1918 and 1943, he completed just six compositions, including Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 3, and Symphonic Dances. In 1942, Rachmaninov moved to Beverly Hills, California. One month before his death from advanced melanoma, Rachmaninov acquired American citizenship.
Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and his use of rich orchestral colors.[3] The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninov's compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument.

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