BAADSVIK; LINDBERG Tuba Concertos
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Composer or Director: Øystein Baadsvik, Christian Lindberg, Jon Øivind Ness
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: BIS
Magazine Review Date: 10/2014
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 68
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: BIS2005
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Tuba and Chamber Orchestra |
Øystein Baadsvik, Composer
Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra Christian Lindberg, Composer Øystein Baadsvik, Composer Øystein Baadsvik, Tuba |
Bogey Thresher |
Jon Øivind Ness, Composer
Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra Christian Lindberg, Composer Jon Øivind Ness, Composer Øystein Baadsvik, Tuba |
Panda in Love (Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra) |
Christian Lindberg, Composer
Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra Christian Lindberg, Composer Christian Lindberg, Composer Øystein Baadsvik, Tuba |
Author: Guy Rickards
Baadsvik’s engaging Concerto opens the disc, the most abstract in title and structure though there are clearly some (undisclosed) extramusical inspirations, most notably in the breezy outer movements where African and jazz rhythms dominate the textures. Baadsvik’s musical language is tonal and he has a gift for light-filled, lyrical melodic lines. So, too, does Lindberg in Panda in Love, which takes the form of a suite in six fairly descriptive movements, the titles of which indicate their mood and expressive purpose, such as the ‘Pooh-like Panda’ searching for something he cannot find or, more satirical in tone, ‘Panda in Protest – Goes to Tiananmen Square’. What goes on in ‘Lion Cub’ is anyone’s guess!
The longest work (and track) here, the 23-minute-long single-movement Bogey Thresher, also has its humorous side. Ness was influenced by the French spectral school but, in Bogey Thresher, a musical portrait of a machine which harvests ghosts, he adopts in places a more conventional, non-spectral idiom. Musically the most interesting work here, it is played with a superb po-face by Baadsvik. The Arctic Philharmonic and Lindberg prove exemplary accompanists.
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