SKU: MA.EMR-54588

A Walk In The Park / Encounter With Aliens / No Worries / Cool Dude / Hymn For Peace / Melancholy Jig / Orpheus And His Lyre / Robots' March.

SKU: FG.55011-450-0

ISBN 9790550114500.

Northlands (album for horn and string orchestra) is a concertante work for horn and strings, written for Tommi Hyytiainen and premiered by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra with Hyytiainen as a soloist. The work has been recorded for ALBA label, and it won the Record of the Year prize given the Finnish National Broadcasting Company in 2017.
The composer writes that Northlands was influenced by his brief experience with Iceland, its epic landscapes and otherworldly light, which had had an immediate and powerful impact both on the composer and the concept for the piece.

SKU: FG.042-08610-0

ISBN 979-0-042-08610-0.

Nordgren has had a close partnership with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, and much of his work is in fact scored for string orchestra. Transe-choral for 15 strings proceeds from timbre textures via unison passages to thick webs that finally clarify to become beautiful major chords. This work is in two movements. In the first, the parallel stream of consciousness coexists uneasily and a group of violins with retuned open strings is used to produce a cyclic figure in bare timbres, like revolving crystal. The second movement develops the idea of a melismatically-decorated monody to which the orchestration gradually provides depth. lt is taken up by a solo violin which alternates with passionate cluster!like passages, ultimately reaching a paradisiacal F sharp major chord on which the work closes.

SKU: MA.EMR-54603

A Walk In The Park / Encounter With Aliens / No Worries / Cool Dude / Hymn For Peace / Melancholy Jig / Orpheus And His Lyre / Robots' March.