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Valen - Orchestral Music Vol.1 | BIS BISCD1522

Valen - Orchestral Music Vol.1

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1522

Barcode: 7318590015223

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Elise Batnes (violin)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Christian Eggen

Works

Valen, Fartein

Cantico di ringraziamento, op.17 no.2
Pastorale, op.11
Sonetto di Michelangelo, op.17 no.1
Symphony no.1, op.30
Violin Concerto, op.37

Artists

Elise Batnes (violin)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Christian Eggen

About

This disc is the first of three dedicated to Valen’s orchestral works and includes three short works from 1930-32 as well as his Symphony No.1 (1939) and his Violin Concerto (1940), written as a memorial to his godchild and ending with the chorale Jesu meine Zuversicht.

During the 1920s he was hard at work forging a style of his own, founded both in his abiding respect for the counterpoint of Bach and Palestrina and the established musical forms, as well as his own powerful expressive urge. The result is a unique form of atonal counterpoint.

Elise Båtnes, one of Norway’s foremost violinists, and the Stavanger SO are conducted by the highly respected Norwegian conductor Christian Eggen, who has made important revisions to the published scores in order to arrive at Valen’s original intentions. The turn has now come to Fartein Valen - born in 1887, some years before both Sæverud and Tveitt, two Norwegian composers whose music has reached a wider audience - through the highly acclaimed recordings by the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.

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