Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra - Stockholm Diary - Import CD

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Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

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Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra's 50th Anniversary AlbumFirst recording of Salonen's "Stockholm Diary"! Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra, this is the first joint album with Merlin Broumans, who will serve as Artistic Director beginning in 2019. The elements that unite the album are "Purified Night" and "Los Angeles. Schoenberg, Salonen, and Stravinsky all at one time or another made this city on the West Coast of the United States their base of activity and life. Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Stockholm Diary," commissioned by the Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, makes full use of the colors and textures of the string orchestra. 2004. Salonen conducted the first performance. This is the first recording of the work. Lachen Verlernt (Forgotten Laughter), whose title is taken from the text of the "Prayer for Pierrot" from Schoenberg's "Pierrot Possessed by the Moon," is a "chaconne" for violin solo written by Salonen for Choryan Lin.Sally Beamish Sally Beamish's "Glanz (Glow)" is a solo piece she wrote in 2016 for this instrument, having begun her career as a viola player. Taking its name from the words of Richard Demel's poem "The Purified Night," on which the album's centerpiece "Purified Night" is based, the piece is a memorial to her "good friend and colleague," Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The program concluded with "Concerto for Strings in D," one of Stravinsky's so-called neoclassical works, which recalls the energetic style and rhythms of the Baroque period. It is also called the "Basel Concerto" because of its compositional background. This is the first time that the Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra has invited a Swedish musician to lead the orchestra, and this album demonstrates the orchestra's ambition to move into the next era. [Profile] Marlin Bröhlmann (1975-). Born in Kungsbacka, Sweden. He studied violin with Lisbeth Vekki and Milan Vitek and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in David Takeno's class.In 1996, she participated in the 5th Carl Nilsen International Violin Competition, sharing the second prize with Jáko Kuusisto. In the Washington International Competition, she won the first prize and the audience prize. He is the first concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and is also active as a soloist and chamber musician. He is a founding member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio. He has participated in the Nash Ensemble and co-founded the Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble ("Voices of Angels," BIS SA 2344) He will conduct the chamber orchestra Musica Vitae as artistic director from 2015 to 2020. fall 2019, succeeds Sakari Oramo as Artistic Director of the Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra. King International.