{"id":3697,"date":"2025-02-07T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:42:04","slug":"album-release-of-silent-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/album-release-of-silent-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Album release of Silent Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The long-awaited release: Karin Rehnqvist<\/strong>‘s acclaimed work Silent Earth<\/em> is now available for download or streaming. It is a gripping climate oratorio in three movements for mixed choir and symphony orchestra, with lyrics by Kerstin Perski<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was for this work that Karin Rehnqvist was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize<\/strong> in autumn 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album Silent Earth<\/em> was released on February 7, 2025, as a recording with the Swedish Radio Choir<\/strong> and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra<\/strong>. This was from a concert during the Baltic Sea Festival in August 2022. The Finnish conductor Dima Slobeniouk<\/strong> led the 150 participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


For downloading\/streaming<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The new album is produced by Footprint Records<\/strong> and distributed by Naxos.
Here is the link for downloading<\/strong> \u203a<\/a>
including extensive documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Read more in the album booklet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

16 pages about the creation of the work, lyrics, programme note, and biographies of the composer and the lyricist, the choir, the orchestra and the conductor.
Free to download<\/a><\/strong> \u203a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 This masterpiece by Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist is a dystopian retrospective of how humanity has plundered this one planet we live on.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Postponed premieres<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Silent Earth<\/em> was composed in 2020, but the planned premieres were postponed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world premiere took place in the concert series NTR ZaterdagMatinee, with the Groot Omroepkoor<\/strong> (Netherlands Radio Choir) and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest<\/strong> (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra) on January 29, 2022, with Dutch conductor Gijs Leenaars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Baltic Sea Festival on August 26, 2022, Silent Earth<\/em> was performed by the Radio Choir and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silent Earth is a joint commission by the Eduard van Beinum Stichting, for the NTR ZaterdagMatinee, the concert series in Radio 4 in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for the Baltic Sea Festival in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From the Swedish premiere of Silent Earth. Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, 26 August 2022.
Photo: Arne Hyckenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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