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Powerful & beautiful folk music with a star-studded chamber orchestra!<\/p>\n
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Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola have created their own chamber orchestra S\u00f8lvstr\u00f8k (Silverstroke), consisting of a dream team of Norwegian folk & classical musicians, with a punchy & nuanced sound.<\/p>\n
Each track takes a tune as its starting point (5 self-composed & 5 traditional), which Summers\/Silvola recomposed & expanded into refined string arrangements, focusing on the rhythmic drive & distinctive melodies of Scottish & Norwegian folk music, classical harmonies, and contemporary music colour.<\/p>\n
The album opens with Tune For Alistair<\/em>, illustrating the day of an energetic toddler. Number 81<\/em> is a 400 year old 6-bar reel that we call Baroque-Techno, while Christmas Day I Da Mornin\u2019 is a Shetland Christmas meditation. Owerset<\/em> II<\/em>, a Scottish-Norwegian pols by Summers, has an extended contemporary music section. Morning Prayer <\/em>is a prayer that was finally answered. Donald Morison<\/em> & Miss Mary MacDonald <\/em>are driving dances, the latter reusing the opening of Mozart’s 25th Symphony. Call & Response<\/em> is inspired by the unique psalm tradition from The Isle of Lewis, which was visited by the Vikings and has many Norwegian place names. Finally, In<\/em> Dispraise Of Whisky<\/em>\u2019s energy belies the sober title!<\/p>\n “I always dreamt of \u2018super-sizing\u2019 our music for chamber orchestra, and when I was heavily pregnant, we went to see Oslo Chamber Orchestra.\u00a0 Afterwards, I said I wanted to write for them. So, we did! We played together at Oslo World Festival; what a joy! F\u00f8rdefestivalen then got in touch and suggested we create a chamber orchestra of primarily traditional musicians for the 2021 festival, and S\u00f8lvstr\u00f8k was born,\u201d explains Sarah-Jane.<\/p>\n Summers & Silvola is an internationally acclaimed Scottish\/Finnish duo, who celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2021. All three of their duo albums received Top of the World from Songlines<\/em>; their latest was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy in 2022.<\/p>\n Summers is one of Scotland’s foremost fiddlers & a tradition bearer of the old Highland style. She has a master’s degree in Norwegian folk music & improvisation from the Norwegian Academy of Music, has released five solo albums & played with GRIT Orchestra, RANT & Quatuor Bozzini. Silvola is a sought-after guitarist, renowned composer of electro-acoustic contemporary music, and record producer. He has released five solo albums, toured with the Nils Petter Molv\u00e6r Group and plays with Susanna Wallumr\u00f8d and Frode Haltli’s Avant Folk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Powerful & beautiful folk music with a star-studded chamber orchestra!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[35],"product_tag":[7800],"class_list":{"0":"post-40413","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-heilo","7":"product_tag-folkemusikk","8":"product_shipping_class-cddvd-shipping","9":"uni_artist_tag-juhani-silvola","10":"uni_artist_tag-sarah-jane-summers","11":"uni_artist_tag-solvstrok","12":"uni_main_artist_tag-sarah-jane-summers-juhani-silvola-solvstrok","13":"uni_artist_genre-chamber-music","14":"uni_artist_genre-folk-music","15":"uni_artist_genre-folkemusikk","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"taxable","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=40413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}