{"id":2274,"date":"2021-10-25T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2021-10-25T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:48:21","slug":"a-winner-for-lovers-of-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/a-winner-for-lovers-of-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A winner for lovers of new music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Else B\u00f8, piano, Marianne Baudouin Lie, cello, <\/strong>Sigrid Elisabeth Stang, violin.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For Alpaca Ensemble<\/strong>, Norway, Karin Rehnqvist<\/strong> has written the work In Orbit \u2013 a moving quartet<\/em>. For violin, clarinet, cello and piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The musicians also play bass violin, bass and double bass clarinet (performed by Rolf Borch<\/strong>) and toy piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alpaca Ensemble gave a “pre-premiere” in Stangvik, Norway, already on July 23 2016. On 16 September 2016, the official premiere took place in Trondheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Orbit \/ I banor – a moving quartet<\/em> consists of four movements: Outer Space – Planet Play – Laud – Epilogue<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The English music critic Guy Rickards<\/strong> has listened to the album and gives his review here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recorded in Oslo in mid-December 2019, before the coronaviral lockdowns, this disc has nonetheless had to wait until the gradual thaw in restrictions to be released. The wait has been worth it, undoubtedly, in bringing these splendid performances to public attention.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disc is split slightly unevenly between the Swedish composer Karin <\/strong>Rehnqvist (b1957), with about 55% of the duration, and Ellen Lindquist<\/strong> (b1970), American born with Dutch antecedents (and a Swedish name), with 45%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The musicians respond with enthusiasm, and commitment but when they step into Rehnqvist\u2019s \u2018moving quartet\u2019\u00a0In Orbit\/I banor\u00a0<\/em>(2017), we move into a different world. Rehnqvist\u2014with her close contemporaries, Kaija Saariaho<\/strong>, Marie Samuelsson<\/strong> and Cecilie Ore<\/strong>\u2014is one of a brilliant generation of Nordic women composers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of her earlier music was derived from the rural chanting known as\u00a0kulning<\/em>, and at its best possessed a visceral shock value that few composers achieve. Her later works have moved on while losing nothing of their radical approach, and In Orbit<\/em> \/\u00a0I banor\u00a0<\/em>is one such. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, there is much dissonance when heard within a tonal perspective, but Rehnqvist creates her own harmonic language such that, on its own terms, the music is quite consonant. The quartet\u2019s seven movements comprise the major item on the disc in length and musical quality, exploring a wide range of sonorities\u2014even including the bright, distinctive tone of a toy piano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrast and texture, as well as the unsettling of her audiences, are features Rehnqvist cultivates in the clarinet solo,\u00a0Far and near<\/em> \/ L\u00e5ngt borta och n\u00e4ra<\/em>, to be played ideally in a darkened room, and \u201cfrom an unexpected place in the room\u201d. The music, however, was derived from her chamber clarinet concerto,\u00a0On a Distant Shore\u00a0<\/em>(2002). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performances in all six works are beautifully prepared and executed, and Lawo\u2019s recording is splendid, clear, and natural.\u00a0For lovers of new music, this is a winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illustration by Jenny Soep<\/em>

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