Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22)
by Trondheim Soloists
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NORDIC MUSIC,
TRONDHEIM SOUND
By Andrew Mellor
Even in our digital age, Nordic music of all genres has proved reluctant to shake off the influences that have shaped it for centuries: folk traditions, the aesthetic and technical leverage of the natural
world, and the communicative resonance of acoustic stringed instruments. As one of Norway’s best-known and well-travelled string ensembles, The Trondheim Soloists has consciously cultivated those influences in the development of a distinctive sound.
It is a sound that could only have come from this place. Trondheim, once Norway’s capital, sits at the mouth of a river and at the wide edge of a fjord. Mountains loom in the distance rather than rearing up at the end of city streets. The town appears to be surrounded by a wilderness of wooded hills, where the musicians who founded
The Trondheim Soloists would pit themselves against the mighty forces of nature as they tried to better understand what it meant to be a
Norwegian musician.
More specifically, to be a Norwegian musician from the Trøndelag county – where views are wide and clear, where the light is lucid and crystalline, where sunrises and sunsets can last for hours.
An open, plain-speaking sound with something of the folk fiddle’s directness would infiltrate the orchestra of young string players founded in 1988 by Bjarne Fiskum. With both students and
professionals in its ranks, its performances would combine sophistication and hunger, resulting in a sound that audiences, as well as major soloists, soon found infectious.
The orchestra’s repertoire spreads to many geographies and chronologies, but its heartland is northern. The five most populous Nordic countries are represented on this recording, states bound by shared philosophy, culture and collaboration and, these days, by blossoming music scenes that are exporting talent around
the world. The development of music in Norway, Finland and Iceland – the Nordic countries that weren’t imperial powers and achieved
independence only in the twentieth-century – is the most obviously rooted in folk traditions. Those roots have only heightened that music’s sense of innovation, relevance and technical fascination.
TRONDHEIM SOUND
By Andrew Mellor
Even in our digital age, Nordic music of all genres has proved reluctant to shake off the influences that have shaped it for centuries: folk traditions, the aesthetic and technical leverage of the natural
world, and the communicative resonance of acoustic stringed instruments. As one of Norway’s best-known and well-travelled string ensembles, The Trondheim Soloists has consciously cultivated those influences in the development of a distinctive sound.
It is a sound that could only have come from this place. Trondheim, once Norway’s capital, sits at the mouth of a river and at the wide edge of a fjord. Mountains loom in the distance rather than rearing up at the end of city streets. The town appears to be surrounded by a wilderness of wooded hills, where the musicians who founded
The Trondheim Soloists would pit themselves against the mighty forces of nature as they tried to better understand what it meant to be a
Norwegian musician.
More specifically, to be a Norwegian musician from the Trøndelag county – where views are wide and clear, where the light is lucid and crystalline, where sunrises and sunsets can last for hours.
An open, plain-speaking sound with something of the folk fiddle’s directness would infiltrate the orchestra of young string players founded in 1988 by Bjarne Fiskum. With both students and
professionals in its ranks, its performances would combine sophistication and hunger, resulting in a sound that audiences, as well as major soloists, soon found infectious.
The orchestra’s repertoire spreads to many geographies and chronologies, but its heartland is northern. The five most populous Nordic countries are represented on this recording, states bound by shared philosophy, culture and collaboration and, these days, by blossoming music scenes that are exporting talent around
the world. The development of music in Norway, Finland and Iceland – the Nordic countries that weren’t imperial powers and achieved
independence only in the twentieth-century – is the most obviously rooted in folk traditions. Those roots have only heightened that music’s sense of innovation, relevance and technical fascination.
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released May 31, 2021
Recording from Øysteinsalen at
Erkebispegården,
Trondheim, March 22 - 25 2021
Recorded by Jo Ranheim, Øra Studio
Edited by Geir Inge Lotsberg
Article by Andrew Mellor
Trondheimsolistene is supported by NTNU
- Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Sparebank1 SMN and Koteng.
Public support by Ministry of Culture,
Trondheim municipality
and Trøndelag county council
Photography and design: Erik(sen)
Recording from Øysteinsalen at
Erkebispegården,
Trondheim, March 22 - 25 2021
Recorded by Jo Ranheim, Øra Studio
Edited by Geir Inge Lotsberg
Article by Andrew Mellor
Trondheimsolistene is supported by NTNU
- Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Sparebank1 SMN and Koteng.
Public support by Ministry of Culture,
Trondheim municipality
and Trøndelag county council
Photography and design: Erik(sen)
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Fabra Oslo, Norway
Fabra label of Norway was founded in 1993 and has presently released 29 albums and 4 ep's. Run by Geir Inge Lotsberg. All artwork by Erik Johan Worsøe Eriksen.
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