Lisa Larsson, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra & Gordan Nikoli
Release Date: 15 March 2019
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917275421
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Challenge Classics present an intriguing portrait of a leading Swedish composer, Rolf Martinsson. The album £Gardedn of Delights" showcases five works by the composers featuring Martinsson's favourite soprano, Lisa Larsson. The beautiful and warm sound of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and its leader, violinist Gordan Nikolic, is the other asset for this invitation to discover the approachable music of an important personality in today classical world.
"The Garden of Devotion" is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore set to music by Martinsson in 2013, for soprano and string orchestra. In "To the Shadow of Reality", with lyrics by Swedish poetess Karin Boye, the soprano is accompanied by string quartet in the five songs. "A.S. in memoriam" is a piece for string orchestra; composed in 1999, it is a homage to Arnold Schoenberg. A piece called "Landscape" for solo violin is dated 2010 and takes its inspiration from The Strand, a painting by Edvard Munch. The disc closes with a work for chamber orchestra, "Kalliope", composed in 2004.
Swedish soprano Lisa Larsson started her career as a flautist and studied singing in Basel. Her first engagement was at the Zurich Opera House, where she performed under a number of conductors including Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Franz Welser-Most. Following her debut at La Scala in Milan in "The Magic Flute" under Riccardo Muti, she swiftly developed her international opera career, in particular as a Mozart singer performing parts such as Susanna, Pamina, Zaide, Zerlina, Servilia, Ilia, Fortuna and Ismene; other roles included Marzelline, Anne Trulove, Ännchen, Eurydice, Adele, Adina, Oscar, Xenia, Tytania, Polissena and Morgana. She appeared at renowned European opera houses including the Bavarian State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Royal Danish Opera, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Leipzig Opera, the Grand Theatre de Geneve, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Theater Basel as well as at the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Vladimir Delman; Milan RAI Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Schippers; Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra
Johanna Domotor; Meesun Hong Coleman; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
