Per Nørgård: Out of this World - Parting (Witold Lutosławski in memoriam)
from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22) by Trondheim Soloists
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The Danish composer PER NØRGÅRD personifies
the link between the old and new worlds of
notated Nordic music. As a teenager in the
1950s, Nørgård corresponded with the Finnish
composer Jean Sibelius as he sought to find a way
of furthering the organic processes that composer
had explored in his late works. Nørgård would
discover his own means of systematic and plastic
musical construction courtesy of an algorithmic
compositional device known as the Infinity Series.
It allowed him to write recognizably Nordic,
functional music that concurrently opened itself
up to a world of influences and expressions.
Nørgård series of three works for strings known
as Tributes was written in the mid 1990s, each
work a homage to a different twentieth-century
composer: Jean Sibelius, Bela Bartók and Witold
Lutosławski. The second, Parting, was written
in 1994 and consciously designed as a tribute to
the latter composer, who died in Warsaw that
year. Nørgård’s starting point was a line from the
thirteenth-century Turkish poet and mystic Yunus
Emre referring to ‘greetings to the ones we leave
behind.’ Nørgård’s piece could be considered an
elegy, in a melancholy Nordic mood, interrupted by what he describes as ‘dance-like, whirling village music’ whose Slavic character could be a salute to Lutosławski.
As often with Nørgård, the central characteristic of the music rests on a single technical trick. In this case, he achieves a depressed mood by focusing on the straining interval of the seventh, but also by letting the natural acoustic overtones produced by a low natural F ‘interfere’ with a clean, well-tempered F sounding above it – resulting in an ‘emotionally strangled character’.
It feels entirely natural – not so much the music of flowers and sunsets, as music apparently controlled by natural forces, from its initial birth from a single note to the spasms with which it
withers away.
the link between the old and new worlds of
notated Nordic music. As a teenager in the
1950s, Nørgård corresponded with the Finnish
composer Jean Sibelius as he sought to find a way
of furthering the organic processes that composer
had explored in his late works. Nørgård would
discover his own means of systematic and plastic
musical construction courtesy of an algorithmic
compositional device known as the Infinity Series.
It allowed him to write recognizably Nordic,
functional music that concurrently opened itself
up to a world of influences and expressions.
Nørgård series of three works for strings known
as Tributes was written in the mid 1990s, each
work a homage to a different twentieth-century
composer: Jean Sibelius, Bela Bartók and Witold
Lutosławski. The second, Parting, was written
in 1994 and consciously designed as a tribute to
the latter composer, who died in Warsaw that
year. Nørgård’s starting point was a line from the
thirteenth-century Turkish poet and mystic Yunus
Emre referring to ‘greetings to the ones we leave
behind.’ Nørgård’s piece could be considered an
elegy, in a melancholy Nordic mood, interrupted by what he describes as ‘dance-like, whirling village music’ whose Slavic character could be a salute to Lutosławski.
As often with Nørgård, the central characteristic of the music rests on a single technical trick. In this case, he achieves a depressed mood by focusing on the straining interval of the seventh, but also by letting the natural acoustic overtones produced by a low natural F ‘interfere’ with a clean, well-tempered F sounding above it – resulting in an ‘emotionally strangled character’.
It feels entirely natural – not so much the music of flowers and sunsets, as music apparently controlled by natural forces, from its initial birth from a single note to the spasms with which it
withers away.
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from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22),
released May 31, 2021
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