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SUNLEIF RASMUSSEN Aldubáran Sunleif RaSmuSSen Dancing Raindrops Solo and ensemble works SunleifAldubáran RaSmuSSen Dancing Raindrops Solo and ensemble works Aldubáran Sunleif RaSmuSSen (b. 1961) 9 Andalag #2 (2007) * �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 4:15 for two flutes Dancing Raindrops Solo and ensemble works Andrea Heindriksdóttir and Bernharður Wilkinson, flutes Aldubáran Like the Golden Sun (1993) * �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 14:25 for piano and effect processor 10 I The winter gleam illuminates our mountains �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 3:16 11 II Upon us are the peaceful pearl grey days and the magical dusk � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 2:50 12 III The playful Northern lights return �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 1:09 13 IV Ice crystals sparkle delightfully on the road � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 3:31 14 V The immortal fountain of light brings a precious drop of eternity to our mortal eyes � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 3:39 Jóhannes Andreasen, piano Dancing Raindrops (1995) * �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 13:15 15 Mozaik / Miniature (1999) �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 7:23 for clarinet, violin and piano for flute, clarinet, piano and violin 1 I Con brio e ben ritmico � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 4:12 Capriccioso – Animato e lontano – Animato ed espressivo – Meno mosso 2 II Fluente � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 4:30 Andrea Heindriksdóttir, flute; Anna Klett, clarinet; 3 III Con brio �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 4:33 Sámal Petersen, violin; Jóhannes Andreasen, piano Anna Klett, clarinet; Øssur Bæk, violin; Jóhannes Andreasen, piano Total 56:14 Suite (2007) * � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 16:56 for guitar and effect processor * World première recording 4 I Præludium �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 3:58 5 II Allemande � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 3:01 6 III Courante � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 1:48 7 IV Sarabande �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 4:58 8 V Gigue �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 3:11 Ólavur Jakobsen, guitar Dacapo is supported by the Danish Arts Council Committee for Music musical experience one can get out of Sun- by Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and In 1992 he received grants from the SunleIF RaSmuSSen leif Rasmussen’s music. But all the national John Storgårds. In 2006 the première of his Leonnie Sonning Foundation and from the baggage can also seem superfluous. Much as opera The Madman’s Garden took place in Danish Composers’ Society. In 1997 he was Faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen was his music may recall the rushing wind, it can Tórshavn, and has since been followed by awarded a three-year grant from the Danish born on Sandoy – ‘the sand island’ – in 1961. equally recall the music in the environment performances in Tallin (Estonia) 2008 and at State Arts Foundation, and in 2002 the In terms of his own priorities, the stress that Sunleif Rasmussen was a part of at the the Arts Festival in Reykjavík (Iceland) 2009. prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize. As on nationality is important if one wants Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copen- In 2009 he was commissioned to write a the youngest person so far he received the to approach his music and understand hagen at the end of the 1980s. His contem- work for the 100th anniversary of the Faroese Faroese Cultural Prize of Honour in 2011. its background. At all events the Faroese porary Bent Sørensen, formerly professor of capital, Tórshavn, resulting in a large scale aspect – the colonial history, the yearning composition in Copenhagen, or one of the cantata combining many elements of Dancing raindrops can clearly be heard in for freedom, the language, the songs and the most important figures of twentieth century Faroese music life such as choir, classical the virtuosic chamber playing in the first culture – fills most of the self-portrait that he music, György Ligeti, are people with tonal and rhytmic musicians as well as the tradi- work on this CD. Water is the theme which put into writing in 2002 when he received the idioms and ideas for music that just as tional Faroese chain dance. connects the work with the Symphony No.1. greatest recognition ever awarded a Faroese definitively resemble Rasmussen’s. In recent years he has had two reciden- The music is not bound by any traditional composer: the Nordic Council Music Prize Sunleif Rasmussen has written orchestral cies: in 2008-2009 with the South Jutland form: a fast first movement, a calm middle for the symphony Oceanic Days. works, solo concertos, chamber music, solo Symphony Orchestra for whom he composed movement, followed by a lyrical thematic Sunleif Rasmussen’s musical idiom is pieces, electroacoustic works for tape and Prelude to an Orchestra and a recorder winding-up in the third movement, ending Faroese, too. Deep within the structure lie for live electronics as well as a great deal of concerto, Territorial Songs, premièred with with an abrupt “final-cut”. We are not talking traces of old Faroese songs which Rasmus- choral music. His scoring and ideas are of- Michala Petri as the soloist; and in 2009-10 about common musical forms, and yet: the sen has collected, broken down and rebuilt ten untraditional and take into account the with the Danish vocal ensemble Ars Nova first idea, which the music returns to several into a modern store of musical material. venue where the music will be performed, Copenhagen and Paul Hillier who premièred times, is reminiscent of a fugue but without Material that one can quite reasonably say sometimes defining the placement of or- Gylfaginning for choir, narrator and effect conforming to the traditional melodic or is both his own and new – but which at the chestra musicians between the audience, or processor, leading to a new commission for rhythmic steadfastness. We hear an incessant same time has a relationship with tradi- an item on a concert programme is preceded Paul Hillier’s ensemble Theatre of Voices, change, which is repeated, and as such is the tion and history. The Faroese landscape, by excerpts scored for a few musicians who namely a work for solo quartet of voices and pattern for the work, which dissolves into however, seems far more of a presence in play it in the foyer before the concert. His string quartet. lyricism at the end. Rasmussen’s music. music has been performed by ensembles Sunleif Rasmussen is founder and direc- His youth in Sandoy with the omnipresent throughout the world, including New York, tor of one of the numerous choirs in the Suite for guitar appears to be a musical echo Atlantic, the dunes, the lyme-grass and the Berlin, Paris, London, and Helsinki. Faroe Islands, Tarira, and furthermore a from the Baroque age. The composer uses gales – perhaps not unlike the conditions In 2004 he was visiting composer at the keen teacher, emphasizing the importance the same movement names and order as the on the west coast of Jutland in the autumn – Korsholm Festival in Finland, where his vio- of music education amongst coming genera- French and German Baroque composers did seems to explain much of the highly sensual lin concerto Songs of Seasons was premièred tions in the Faroe Islands. in their solo suites. Baroque instrumental 4 5 music can be likened with a rapid tide of dialogue and changing roles – effervescent On the whole, the works on this CD give a has played a dynamic and integrated part in ‘soggetti’, themes that do not end as defined music which can also be lyrical. broad representation of Sunleif Rasmussen, the development of Faroese music. The group by the rules of form, but rather by them- a composer who stretches extensively in has undertaken many projects throughout selves as all possibilities
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