Britta Byström : A Walk to GADE
from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22) by Trondheim Soloists
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BRITTA BYSTRÖM was raised on the east coast of Sweden directly facing Finland. She started out playing the trumpet but was soon drawn for writing for the whole orchestra, which has become
her natural medium. Her music has an alluring tendency to spin out entire works from a single entity, a strong Nordic characteristic that can prove as liberating as it can concentrating.
Byström’s series of works with titles beginning ‘A Walk to…’ do something similar, using mobile, meandering rhythms to coax melodies and themes along. Sometimes those themes serve as
an introduction to another composer’s work – the composer named in the title. ‘The idea is to take a musical stroll, during which you can catch a glimpse of the next work on the programme, similar to when from far away, one can discern the silhouette of an approaching town,’ Byström writes.
A Walk to Gade was written in 2017 as an ‘introduction’ to the Novelette No 1 in F major Op 53 for string orchestra by the Danish composer Niels Gade (1817-1890). The music takes melodic
shapes and figurations from Gade’s work, fantasizing and daydreaming on them. Over the course of its semi-improvisation amble, the music appears to grow out of itself. It moves from light
nonchalance to hints of worrisome darkness, slipping into the groove of folk music’s dances, reels and sliding glissandos. Finally, the music wanders off into the distance as unobtrusively as it arrived.
her natural medium. Her music has an alluring tendency to spin out entire works from a single entity, a strong Nordic characteristic that can prove as liberating as it can concentrating.
Byström’s series of works with titles beginning ‘A Walk to…’ do something similar, using mobile, meandering rhythms to coax melodies and themes along. Sometimes those themes serve as
an introduction to another composer’s work – the composer named in the title. ‘The idea is to take a musical stroll, during which you can catch a glimpse of the next work on the programme, similar to when from far away, one can discern the silhouette of an approaching town,’ Byström writes.
A Walk to Gade was written in 2017 as an ‘introduction’ to the Novelette No 1 in F major Op 53 for string orchestra by the Danish composer Niels Gade (1817-1890). The music takes melodic
shapes and figurations from Gade’s work, fantasizing and daydreaming on them. Over the course of its semi-improvisation amble, the music appears to grow out of itself. It moves from light
nonchalance to hints of worrisome darkness, slipping into the groove of folk music’s dances, reels and sliding glissandos. Finally, the music wanders off into the distance as unobtrusively as it arrived.
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from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22),
released May 31, 2021
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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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