Release Date: 26 January 2024
Label: Lawo
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090020182810
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
Prokofiev's chamber music output is relatively modest - a handful of sonatas, two string quartets, an overture of Hebrew themes for clarinet, string quartet and piano, as well as this quintet for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and bass. The quintet, with its peculiar instrumentation and its tonal and rhythmic playfulness - described by some as "successfully circusy" - is a prime example of Prokofiev as an ironist and humorist, a superb craftsman who elegantly juggles his material and produces surprisingly sonorous, tonal and rhythmic kaleidoscopes. The work is one of his most radical, but the crassness of the elements is placated by the lightness of the form--like a kind of polite insolence
Humour has long been a central ingredient in Jon Oivind Ness's music, ever since he put his perilous life as a cat owner to music in the trombone concerto Dangerous Kitten (1997). In recent years, his music has transformed significantly, from the complex irony of the 90s, via the almost--to quote the composer himself--romantic fervour of the mid-00s, to a microtonally oriented musical language and occasionally ascetic expression in the last 10 years or so. Broadly speaking, there has been a development from the anarchistic maximal to the punctuated minimal (albeit occasionally massive), but as is so often the case, a leopard doesn't always completely change his spots.
Performers on this recording:
Sara Ovinge - violin; Anders Rensvik - viola; Ingvill Hafskjold - clarinet; Gunnar Hauge - cello; Marius Flatby - double bass; Ensemble Ernst
Tracklisting
Tine Thing Helseth, tenThing Brass Ensemble
Marianne Beate Kielland, Halvor Festervoll Melien, Nils Anders Mortensen
Jan Martin Smordal
Daniel Saether, Ensemble C4
POING
NoXaS Saxophone Quartet, Berit Norbakken, Nordic Voices
Sanae Yoshida
Christiania Mannskor, Marius Skjolaas
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
