SACD, Wallin (composer)
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Rolf Wallin: Wire and String
Susanne Lundeng (fiddle), Siri Torjesen (soprano)
Bodø Sinfonietta, Christian Eggen
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Håkan Hardenberger: Both Sides, Now
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Kenneth Sillito
Hardenberger is often rhythmically too straitlaced for this material. Still, we can admire his smoky flugelhorn tone and deft high passagework on muted trumpet. And the selection, from My Funny... —
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Those who associate Rolf Wallin (b.1957) with abstract poise and geometrical precision may be surprised at the pieces here…The playing of the Arctic Philharmonic under Øyvind Bjorå is sensitivity... —
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Austbø is a model of lucidity, teasing out poetry from between the arid stones in this austere yet not uninteresting repertoire. His booklet-note is correspondingly clear-sighted and Aurora's... —
