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Ronsholdt - Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 1 (Birds) | Dacapo 8226712

Ronsholdt - Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 1 (Birds)

£13.60

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Label: Dacapo

Cat No: 8226712

Barcode: 0636943671221

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 3rd December 2021

Contents

About

With Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book I (Birds), composer Niels Rønsholdt makes a decisive and gripping contribution to the solo piano repertoire. In an imagined future without birds, the pianist opens an archive of human emotions and experiences and tells of the creatures that once flew through the air while singing. Rønsholdt's Archive is a fascinating solo album that offers great insight into his unique musical thinking.

This album is a world premiere recording of Book I: Birds from Niels Rønsholdt’s piano cycle Archive of Emotions and Experiences.

Composer and sound artist Niels Rønsholdt (b. 1978) often works with intimate human expressions and conceptual constructions involving performance, text and musical expression.

The pianist is an oracle-like figure from an imagined future who records and archives human emotions and experiences before they are gone, and it is too late. In Book I: Birds, the pianist tells the story of birds that in this imagined future scenario have long been extinct.

When performing the work, the pianist on the stage is surrounded by a semi-transparent, cubic cover. ‘In a world which has experienced something like the corona pandemic, such a scenario does not so seem so far from reality as it did when I developed the idea’, says Rønsholdt.

Rønsholdt’s music is flickering, with melodies based on an almost old-fashioned tonal language, but set to run at an extreme speed.

The album is recorded by the Greek pianist Lenio Liatsou, who specializes in new music.

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