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Bortz - His Name was Orestes | BIS BISCD165354

Bortz - His Name was Orestes

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD165354

Barcode: 7318591653547

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 2nd January 2008

Contents

Artists

Anita Bjork (narrator)
Annalena Persson
Ingrid Tobiasson
Marianne Eklof
Anna Larsson
Anders Larsson
Olle Persson
Esa Ruuttunen
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Dan Laurin (recorder)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Alan Gilbert

Works

Bortz, Daniel

En gycklares berattelser (A Joker's Tales)
Hans namn var Orestes (His Name Was Orestes)

Artists

Anita Bjork (narrator)
Annalena Persson
Ingrid Tobiasson
Marianne Eklof
Anna Larsson
Anders Larsson
Olle Persson
Esa Ruuttunen
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Dan Laurin (recorder)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Alan Gilbert

About

Highly prolific, Daniel Börtz’s main achievements have been in the genres of the symphony and music drama, exhibiting his highly individual language and his virtuosic treatment of the symphony orchestra.

Almost twenty years ago, in collaboration with Ingmar Bergman, Börtz created the opera Backanterna (The Bacchae) based on the play by Euripides. He then came across an abbreviated version of the Oresteia and decided to make it the basis for an oratorio.

The resulting work, Hans namn var Orestes (His name was Orestes), had its première in 2004. It is composed for narrator, vocal soloists, choir and large orchestra, and tells the tragic and bloody tale of the house of Atreus, in which every crime gives birth to a new crime, and revenge follows upon revenge.

For the first performance and recording some of Sweden’s finest singers, the eminent Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra were gathered together under the baton of Alan Gilbert. Chief conductor of the RSPO and soon-to-become music director of the New York Philharmonic, Gilbert has become a champion of Börtz and other contemporary Swedish composers and also conducted the recording of the recorder concerto A Joker’s Tales (from BIS-CD-1425) which is included on the present release.

… a fine eye for detail and imaginatively spare use of full orchestral resources which now distinguishes Bortz as a composer of music drama.” Gramophone

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