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The Seasons from the top of the world.<\/p>\n
This is as fresh and bold a performance of Vivaldi’s Seasons as you could wish for. The Seasons as experienced in the North is something quite different from what we find in any other part of the world. ‘Extreme’ is the key word when Kraggerud brings us The Seasons together with his Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra \u2013 as if directly out of the arctic nature: wind, snow, cold, rainfall, thaw and heat\u2026 Kraggerud is as relentless as nature itself here. <\/p>\n
And Between the Seasons we find the premiere recordings of Kraggerud’s own works, originally premiered by such artists as The Brodsky Quartet and Britten Sinfonia. Both in comment and contrast to Vivaldi\u2019s moods \u2013 positioned as they are between the seasons \u2013 Kraggerud’s works take a special position. The pieces evoke different connotations and new angles through which the listener experiences the world\u2019s most popular classical work.<\/p>\n
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The extreme \u2013 wind, snow, cold, rainfall, thaw and heat \u2013 are vividly experienced in Kraggerud\u2019s interpretation of The Four Seasons. Henning Kraggerud manages to capture the climatic range experienced on top of the world in his music-making. And there\u2019s more \u2013 between the seasons.<\/p>\n
Inspired by Kremer and Desyatnikov\u2019s combination of Vivaldi and Piazzolla, Kraggerud has included four of his own works in-between the seasons. The pieces chosen evokes different connotations and new angles through which we can experience the world\u2019s most popular classical work. Kraggerud\u2019s pieces both comment and contrast Vivaldi\u2019s moods \u2013 positioned as it were between the seasons, forming an eight spoke wheel.<\/p>\n
The album is accompanied by poetic liner notes from author Erik Fosnes Hansen, chronicling Vivaldi\u2019s life story and relating it both to the music and also the sonnets that were printed along with the original work: \u2018These admired and loved musical illustrations are like tapestries from a vanished era. They tell of simple, ordinary things that happen in the seasons, with all the drama that can lie in such simple and ordinary events. But just as a year has its seasons, so too does a life. So, let us look more closely at the life of this composer.\u2019<\/p>\n
Henning Kraggerud is a leading violinist, also continuously building his reputation as a composer. Recent examples are included on this album \u2018Preghiera\u2019, commissioned by the Brodsky Quartet, and \u2018the last leaf\u2019, premi\u00e8red by Britten Sinfonia.\u00a0Kraggerud is the Artistic Director of the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. His recent release \u2018Equinox\u2019 for Simax Classics has been hailed all over the world: \u2013 opened a window on a magical world. I can’t wait to hear the whole thing in action. [5 stars BBC Music Magazine]<\/p>\n
Erik Fosnes Hansen is a Norwegian award-winning author, his work is translated into more than 30 languages.<\/p>\n
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