Trio ClariNord: Beethoven / Frühling / Ness by Trio ClariNord

Ludwig van Beethoven, Jon Øivind Ness

Trio ClariNord

Trio ClariNord: Beethoven / Frühling / Ness

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Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020181387
Catnr: LWC 1126
Release date: 05 April 2019
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Label
Lawo Classics

UPC
7090020181387

Catalogue number
LWC 1126

Release date
05 April 2019

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About the album

Clarinet trio Trio ClariNord, based in Norway, play Beethoven, Frühling and Ness on their debut release on the LAWO Classics label.

Contemporary Norwegian composer Jon Øivind Ness (b. 1968) is from Inderøy, Trøndelag. That he has played several instruments, clarinet included, has provided a good basis for Sloughs (2013). Ness has attracted attention since the mid-1990s with the originality of his compositions. It is not his ingenuity, but rather a cheerful vitality that distinguishes his music. It captivates, and the musical expression and titles of his works are unconventional. He has an abundance of ideas, all elegantly developed, and his experience with pop music has given him an awareness of rhythm that permeates the rest of his contemporary works. "Sloughs" has a three-part structure. A more tranquil middle section is encompassed by virtuosic and power-driven (Russian?) passages, insistent and serpent-like. The work was commissioned by the arists.

Carl Frühling composed for all genres, including church music, orchestral works and chamber music. The English cellist Steven Isserlis has done a lot to bring Frühling’s pleasing music to light again after many years of obscurity. The "Trio opus 40" was published in 1925 and is in classical four-movement form.

Ludwig van Beethoven published "Trio opus 38" in 1805, but already then it had something of a varied existence. The work began as "Septet opus 20" for three wind and four string players. The transcription retains the clarinet part from the septet, while the cello part is imbued with an unusually independent quality, and the piano takes over for the missing instruments. The Trio was dedicated to Johann Adam Schmidt, the composer’s physician, who tried in vain to inhibit the progress of his deafness.

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Trio ClariNord

Established in 2012, Trio ClariNord is a clarinet trio consisting of clarinetist Emilio Borghesan, cellist Paula Cuesta Redondo and pianist Jie Zhang. The trio is the first ever Norwegian chamber music group to have a wind player accepted to the prestigious European Chamber Music Academy. Renowned teachers with whom Trio ClariNord has studied at ECMA sessions include Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and Ferenc Rados. Trio ClariNord collaborates with contemporary composers to expand the repertoire for clarinet trio. The trio’s first two commissioned works are by Jon Øivind Ness and Gisle Kverndokk, both leading Norwegian composers. The trio performs frequently in Norway and abroad. Recent venues have included concert halls in Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Wigmore Hall in...

Established in 2012, Trio ClariNord is a clarinet trio consisting of clarinetist Emilio Borghesan, cellist Paula Cuesta Redondo and pianist Jie Zhang. The trio is the first ever Norwegian chamber music group to have a wind player accepted to the prestigious European Chamber Music Academy. Renowned teachers with whom Trio ClariNord has studied at ECMA sessions include Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and Ferenc Rados.
Trio ClariNord collaborates with contemporary composers to expand the repertoire for clarinet trio. The trio’s first two commissioned works are by Jon Øivind Ness and Gisle Kverndokk, both leading Norwegian composers. The trio performs frequently in Norway and abroad. Recent venues have included concert halls in Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Wigmore Hall in London.
The three members of Trio ClariNord are all current students or alumni of the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Clarinetist Emilio Borghesan came to Norway in 2011 and has been a fellow with the Oslo Philharmonic. In May 2013 he was a semifinalist in the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Music Competition & Festival in Odense, Denmark, and in 2014 he won Second Prize in the Seventh Annual Anton Eberst Competition for winds in Serbia.
Pianist Jie Zhang has performed with the major symphony orchestras in Norway. In 2010 she became the first foreigner to win the Princess Astrid International Music Prize. Jie has studied with Leif Ove Andsnes and Håvard Gimse.
Cellist Paula Cuesta Redondo has participated in the Verbier Music Festival, and she won first prize in the Alexander and Buono International String Competition, with a subsequent performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She has studied with Truls Mørk in Oslo and Thomas Demenga in Basel.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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Jon Øivind Ness

Jon Øivind Ness (b. 1968) studied guitar (1987—89) and composition (1989—1995) at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Olav Anton Thommessen, Lasse Thoresen and Ragnar Søderlind as his mentors. Ness won the Norwegian Society of Composers ‘Work of the Year’ award in 1993 for his orchestral work Schatten. He was nominated for the Edvard Prize in 1997, 2000 (2 nominations) and 2002, winning in ‘97 and ‘00 for Cascading Ordure and Dangerous Kitten, respectively.
Ness was composer of the year for Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (2002—03), Oslo Philharmonic (2012—13) and Bodø Sinfonietta (2012). Ness’s music has been nominated three times for “Spellemannprisen” (Norwegian Grammy Awards), and he won in 2010 with the CD Low Jive, together with the Oslo Philharmonic. Ness’s tonal language is based on the use of bi- and polytonality developed structurally (or sometimes only coloured) with quarter tones. He tries to approach microtonality from different angles — spectral, untuned, melodic (especially from Arabic traditional music). In recent years he has devoted himself more to arranging music in other genres. His project in 2012 together with Diamanda Gálás and KORK was singled out by Wire editor Rob Young as the third most important international musical event of 2012. Since then he has tried to create artistically challenging arrangements in which classical instruments replace rock instruments using various contemporary music techniques, something which culminated in the Bowie project that he undertook together with Bård Bratlie, Peter Estdahl, Thomas Rimul and KORK in January 2020. He has also arranged/adapted music of Sibelius, Grieg, Sæverud, Clash, Burt Bacharach, Javid Afsari Rad and Harpreet Bansal.

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