Musica Da Camera Ensemble Bjørvika

• 1String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: First Movement09:20
• 2String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: Second Movement09:20
• 3String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: Third Movement03:21
• 4String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: Fourth Movement07:18
• 5Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 1. a Stranger's Face02:46
• 6Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 2. the Rose02:16
• 7Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 3. the Eternal Battlefield01:49
• 8Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 4. Oil, Bread and Wine01:47
• 9Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 5. at Brendan Behan's Litter01:58
• 10Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 6. My Heart03:36
• 11Piano Quintet, Op. 59: First Movement08:43
• 12Piano Quintet, Op. 59: Second Movement03:09
• 13Piano Quintet, Op. 59: Third Movement09:07
• 14Piano Quintet, Op. 59: Fourth Movement07:18
• Total Runtime01:11:48

Info for Musica Da Camera

This music is inventive, melodic, (the tune that opens the 1st movement of the piece will haunt your brain for days), but in no sense whatsoever a pastiche of works by other composers. Morten Gaathaug is best described as an eclectic romantic and his music has an appealing freshness, clarity and originality that, on the basis of this album, should be much more widely known.

The ‘Quintet for Piano and Strings’ is written in a classical four-movement layout with two vigorous Allegros framing a delicious Scherzo and a lovely reflective Adagio. The performance by Ensemble Bjørvika, a quartet made up of players from the orchestra of the Norwegian National Opera, and Tore Dingstad (the dedicatee) is all one could ask for.

Ensemble Bjørvika
Per Andreas Tønder
Ellen Ugelvik
Tore Dingstad

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