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A sophisticated neo-classicist of European calibre<\/p>\n
Geirr Tveitt is one of the most distinctive composers in Norwegian musical history, an ardent nationalist with the sags and folk music as important sources of inspiration, and at the same time a sophisticated neo-classicist of European calibre. A tragic fire in 1970 at his family farm in Hardanger destroyed the major part of his output. What remains of his scores and manuscript music, however, bears witness to a thoroughly unique life\u00b4s work as a composer. On this album, the harpist Turid Kniejski and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductor Per Dreier, performs several of these remaining works.<\/p>\n
Geirr Tveitt was born in the part of Norway from which the Norwegian national instrument, the Hardanger fiddle, and characteristic features of Hardanger music form a melodius and rhythmic undercurrent in several of his works \u2013 not least in his \u201cA Hundred Folk Tunes from Hardanger\u201d. Tveitt transcribed over 1000 folk tunes, and this work is an orchestral arrangement of 100 of these. They were grouped into suites, fifteen folk melodies in each, with only four of these surviving to this day. Here, the first of these are performed, \u201csmall gems of musical inventiveness,\u201d as one critic has described it, together with Tveitt\u00b4s original and fascinating \u201cHarp Concerto No. 2\u201d, characterised by a rare musical imagination, and \u201cNykken\u201d, with its subtitle \u201cA symphonic painting for orchestra\u201d, based on an old Norwegian tale laying the symphonic shape of the orchestral work.<\/p>\n
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