Hillborg Anders

Efter sin kritikerrosade inspelning av Galina Ustvolskajas fem symfonier tar dirigenten Christian Karlsen, tillsammans med Svenska Kammarorkestern, nu sig an de orkestrala och konsertanta verken av Anders Hillborg, Sveriges mest spelade nu levande tonsättare. Bland annat piano- och cellokonserten, med solisterna Tamara Stefanovich och Nicolas Altstaedt.

Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra <br/>Sakari Oramo, conduter<br/>David Zinman, conductor<br/>Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor<br/><br/>"Nutida konstmusik får högsta betyg. Vilket år det varit för Anders Hillborg!"<br/>"Först den hejdundrande Tonsättarfestivalen i Konserthuset, därefter ett flertal hyllade framföranden i Sverige och utomlands. Och nu i veckan meddelar Faber, ett av världens mest betydande musikförlag, att de signat Hillborg - samtidigt som han släpper "Sirens", sin bästa platta hittills. Ja, det är lätt att däckas av en musik som har, för att citera DN:s Johanna Paulsson, "ett sound som är större än livet". Det stämmer in på såväl "Beast sampler" som på "Cold heat" där han eggar fram utomvärldsliga orkesterklanger som ingen annan. Men även på den mer stilla magin i "O dessa ögon" och på den bländande och rent vidunderliga "Sirens". Hillborgs största och på alla plan mest förföriska verk." Martin Nyström (DN)

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Sakari Oramo [King Tide] / Alan Gilbert [Exquisite Corpse] / Esa-Pekka Salonen [Dreaming River, Eleven Gates]<br/><br/>As demonstrated by the four works on this disc, anyone who enters Anders Hillborg's world of sounds is in for a surprise. Complexity rubs shoulders with directness, sensuality with humour, hypnotic meditation with pulsating rhythms, and all is combined with an original sense of form and unfaltering craftsmanship. Such qualities have brought international recognition, and Hillborg recently became the first Swedish composer to have a work premièred by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra when Cold Heat was performed in January 2011. Hillborg has called the symphony orchestra a 'sound animal', and he plainly delights in the effects that are possible to achieve when writing for the medium. His love affair with the orchestra started in the 1980s, when he abandoned electronic music, which had been his main sphere of interest until then. <br/><br/>Around the same time, Hillborg formed a bond with the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who here conducts Dreaming River from 1998 and Eleven Gates, a work he premièred with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2006. Although Salonen was a pioneer regarding Hillborg's music, he is by no means alone in his enthusiasm today, however, as the impressive roster of conductors on this disc demonstrates. Sakari Oramo and Alan Gilbert are both among the most highly regarded conductors of our time, and also have a special relationship with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in common, as its current and former chief conductor. With Hillborg one is always closer to a musical 'yes' than to a 'no', and when he describes his roots in the tradition they are to be found in Stravinsky's appetite rather than in Schoenberg's rules. This generous music has struck a chord with the Stockholm orchestra, which commissioned both Dreaming River and Exquisite Corpse and over the years has performed no less than ten further works by Hillborg. The eminent orchestra has a distinguished discography, including a recent recording on BIS of Mahler's 9th Symphony which Gramophone accorded an Editor's Choice and described as 'a superb, devastating reading', with website ClassicsToday.com remarking that 'the playing throughout really is exceptional'.

1 KLARINETTKONSERT (PEAKOCK TALES) LIQUID MARBLE <br/> <br/>Kompositör: HILLBORG ANDERS <br/> <br/>Orkester: SVERIGE RADIOS SYMFONIORKESTER <br/> <br/>Dirigent: SALONEN ESA-PEKKA <br/> <br/>Solist: LINDAL ANNA

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