Trio Aristos - Nordsending: Works for String Trio & Duo (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Gondole: I. La gondola che balla il valzer
02. Gondole: II. Gondola dei sogni
03. Gondole: III. La gondola con il vestito dei fiori
04. Gondole: IV. Gondola dell'amore
05. Gondole: V. Lugubre gondola
06. Strings: I. Moderato
07. Strings: II. Allegro
08. Strings: III. Adagio
09. Strings: IV. Presto
10. Cloud Trio: I. Calmo, meditato
11. Cloud Trio: II. Sempre dolce, ma energico, sempre a tempo
12. Cloud Trio: III. Sempre energico
13. Cloud Trio: IV. Tranquillo ma sempre molto espressivo
14. Tjampuan: I. Sostenuto, molto affettuoso
15. Tjampuan: II. Poco con moto affettuoso
16. Tjampuan: III. Con moto sostenuto
17. Tjampuan: IV. Più mosso
18. Tjampuan: V. Andantino leggiero, un poco rubato
19. Tjampuan: VI. Presto frenético
20. Rift
21. Pastorale

Nordsending was the name given by southern Norwegian people of the late Medieval and Early Modern period to magical attacks from the sorcerous sub-Arctic and Arctic. It was the ‘broadcast from the north’. Other peoples had other names for it, but they all understood it similarly: the invisible medium through which splinters of iron, stone arrowheads and little mice were shot into the bodies of the healthy by Northern witches.

With this programme of string trios – and one duo – by four Nordic composers, Trio Aristos has devised a Nordsending of their own: thoroughly contemporary, but equally magical. The members of Trio Aristos have in various constellations worked with each of the composers – most extensively with Per Nørgård, the grand old man of Danish music, who is represented here with three works composed in the years around 1990, including the duo Tjampuan for violin and cello.

His younger colleagues all contribute one work each to the album, all of them written between 2009 and 2014. Kaija Saariaho found inspiration for her four-movement trio in different cloud formations, while Bent Sørensen with Gondole added to a series of works inspired by Venice. Gondole was commissioned by Trio Aristos, and so was Rift, by the Norwegian composer Henrik Hellstenius, who recomposed the piece for these performers from his earlier series Imprints.

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