Norwegian Chamber Orchestra; Tonnesen
Release Date: 23 February 2018
Label: Lawo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090020181653
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra turns forty this year and is celebrating the occasion with this new recording.
"This is a splendid issue that does full justice to two linked masterpieces from across the centuries" from MusicWeb International
The Arts Desk says of this recording: "It does need superb players, and gets them here: Terje Tonnesen's swaggering Norwegian Chamber Orchestra totally unfazed by Strauss's technical demands."
They have been around in every age, those who put on airs and think themselves better than the rest of us. They have been depicted in countless plays, the best known of which is Molière's "Le bourgeois gentilhomme".
Two musical versions are presented here, written almost 250 years apart, yet equally relevant in their time and ours. Lully and Strauss both revel in their love of telling stories: not with words, but with a wealth of tonal material, they tell the tale of Monsieur Jourdain, who aspires to rise from his middle-class (bourgeois) status to the ranks of the aristocracy, with all it entails. No one escapes in this satirical presentation, which ridicules everyone involved.
Strauss's "Der Bürger als Edelmann" is directly inspired by Lully's "Le bourgeois gentilhomme"; his music describes the same situations, and several of the movements are based on Lully's music. Yet never before have these works been released together, presumably because of the distance between the compositions in terms of time and style: modern orchestras play Strauss and specialized baroque orchestras play Lully. In the words of artistic director Terje Tønnesen, "It is exciting when the same musicians with the same instruments try to recreate the sounds of these very different epochs. We in the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra endeavour to create something unique that makes our recordings meaningful."
Conductor Terje Tønnesen is one of Norway's leading violinists with a distinguished reputation in Norway's classical music world as artistic director of the Norwegian chamber Orchestra and concertmaster of Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Robert Kruzik
Sibylle Mahni; Andreas Spering; Brandenburger Symphoniker
