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Morten Olsen: In a Silent Way (2008) + Poul Ruders: Four Dances (2009)

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Morten Olsen: In a Silent Way (2008) + Poul Ruders: Four Dances (2009)

Morten Olsen: In a Silent Way (2008) + Poul Ruders: Four Dances (2009)
Contemporary Classical | Dacapo | 2008 | 46:43 | EAC (FLAC, cue, no log) | Covers | 274 MB
Contemporary Classical | Dacapo | 2009 | 50:47 | EAC (FLAC, cue, no log) | Covers | 182 MB
Esbjerg Ensemble, Christopher Austin, Conductor
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen, Conductor

Here we have two contemporary Danish composers from Dacapo label: Morten Olsen and Poul Ruders. Olsen’s (b. 1961) music is complex yet appealing, bewildering yet approachable, and as difficult to categorize as those apparent paradoxes might suggest. In his works Ruders (b. 1949) has incorporated features of minimalism, Medieval and Renaissance-era styles, popular music sources, various tonal and atonal elements, and has even developed a system of shaping and organizing pitch.

Morten Olsen - In a Silent Way (2008)

Contemporary Classical | Dacapo | 2008 | 46:43 | EAC (FLAC, cue, no log) | Covers | 274 MB
Esbjerg Ensemble, Christopher Austin, Conductor

Post-just-about-everything, and elevating eclecticism to an art form in its own right in unprecedented measure, Olsen’s (b. 1961) music is complex yet appealing, bewildering yet approachable, and as difficult to categorize as those apparent paradoxes might suggest. Opening with fragmented gestures, Kata passes through several phases of jerkily animated minimalism, a dissonant climax and lively instrumental arabesques, before concluding in cavernous piano clusters, an idea that underpinned some of the previous material. In a silent way is described by the composer as a written improvisation, and sounds like one, with a nod to the composer’s background in jazz, in the undulating solo bass flute line, illuminated by subtle gestures from the rest of the ensemble. Oryq adds the unearthly sound of 24 tuned gongs to the forces of the Schubert Octet, in music in which hints of meditative minimalism and an almost Feldmanesque stasis alternate with aggressive, dogged scherzi, the first driven and rough, the second sounding like grotesquely distorted, even nightmarish, memory fragments of genteel Viennese dances. Ictus, the earliest work here (2005) uses pulse as a structural element; whether obscured in abstract overlapping waves of dissonant tone or driving the music as an ostinato in more dynamic sections, the rhythm is present ‘like a DNA string’ in the composer’s words.
– recordsinternational.com


Track List:

1. Kata 00:17:04
2. In a Silent Way 00:11:58
Oryq
3. I. Slowly 00:04:38
4. II. Very very slow 00:08:36
5. III. Poco pesante 00:02:26
6. IV. Very slow 00:02:46
7. V. Rumoroso 00:02:41
8. VI. Slowly 00:04:52
9. Ictus 00:21:42

Read more about the CD here.
Read more about Morten Olsen here.

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Part 1
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Poul Ruders: Four Dances (2009)
Contemporary Classical | Dacapo | 2009 | 50:47 | EAC (FLAC, cue, no log) | Covers | 182 MB
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen, conductor

Poul Ruders (b. 1949) is generally considered the foremost Danish composer of the postwar generation, having forged a solid reputation as an eclectic willing to use a variety of techniques and styles. In his works he has incorporated features of minimalism, Medieval and Renaissance-era styles, popular music sources, various tonal and atonal elements, and has even developed a system of shaping and organizing pitch.

Poul Ruders (b. 1949) fully masters a most expressive music which has had a world wide resonance and makes him one of today's most performed Danish contemporary composers outside Denmark. On this disc three of his pivotal chamber works are in the hands of one of Europe's leading new music ensembles Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Four Dances in One Movement (1983) is an emotional sequence of four pure musical characters. Abysm (2000), which Ruders has written for BCMG, and Nightshade (1987) are two modern tone poems rooted in both dark and moving sound worlds.

Track List:

4 Dances in 1 Movement
1. No. 1. Whispering 00:01:51
2. No. 2. Rocking 00:05:03
3. No. 3. Exstatic 00:03:52
4. No. 4. Extravagant 00:08:37
5. Nightshade 00:09:11
Abysm
6. I. Abysm 00:22:39
7. II. Burning 00:01:49
8. III. Spectre 00:09:15


Read more about the CD here.
Read more about Poul Ruders here.

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More contemporary music from Scandinavia and Baltic countries:
Iiro Rantala: Piano Concerto, ...ngonator, Final Fantasy (2006)
René Eespere: Concertatus celatus (2007)
Péteris Vasks: Piano Trio; Piano Quartet (2008)
Batiashvili - Sibelius and Lindberg Violin Concertos (2007)
Music of Magnus Lindberg (2002)
Tüür, Vasks, Sumera, Narbutait...entus & Other Works (2000)
Magnus Lindberg - UR, Corrente, Duo Concertante, Joy (1999)

More contemporary American and European music is available at my blog.