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Cikada Live - Huddersfield/Donaueschingen
LAWO Classics

Cikada Live - Huddersfield/Donaueschingen

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Composer
Richard Barrett, Klaus Lang, Rolf Wallin
Artist
Cikada
Format
CD
Label
LAWO Classics
Released
Feb 09, 2024
Catalog #
LWC1262
UPC
7090020182841

About

Seven Disobediences
Seven Imperatives is my answer to the tradition of character pieces for piano, such as Debussy’s Préludes and Grieg’s Lyric Pieces; short, relatively simple but concise miniatures with a motto, and usually with one prevalent sentiment—like a musical short story. The title of each of the seven pieces is an imperative consisting of four letters: Seek! Push! Lean! Etc.
One of the pianists who has taken the Imperatives into his repertoire, is Kenneth Karlsson—central to the founding and artistic development of Cikada. So, when Donaueschinger Musiktage asked me to write a work for Cikada for their concert there in 2018, I seized the opportunity to explore another cornerstone of the piano literature: In a solo concerto, you see a whole orchestra dutifully following a brilliant ego that is completely dominating the stage. Beethoven’s last piano concerto was even called the Emperor Concerto, an epithet the thoroughly anti-authoritarian composer would have hated.
As I transformed Seven Imperatives (2001) into the “concert” Seven Disobediences (2018), I looked into Cikada’s beautiful collaborative social and artistic structure. When Kenneth, “The Emperor” (Italian: imperatore) gives his imperatives to his fellow musician, how do they react? Well, when he tells them to spin, they happily spin together with him, but when he says “SINK!”, they do the opposite and rise gracefully towards the sky. Towards the end, they all leave their positions and their instruments and gather around the piano’s big body to caress it and make it purr by fondly knocking on its shiny, black surface in loving disobedience.
-Rolf Wallin

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 I. Seek 01:31
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Seek
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Rolf Wallin
    Performer
    Kenneth Karlsson
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  2. 2 II. Push 05:09
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Push
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Rolf Wallin
    Performer
    Kenneth Karlsson
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  3. 3 III. Sink 02:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Sink
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Rolf Wallin
    Performer
    Kenneth Karlsson
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  4. 4 IV. Spin 03:53
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Spin
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Rolf Wallin
    Performer
    Kenneth Karlsson
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  5. 5 V. Stab 00:41
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Stab
    Duration
    00:41
    Composer
    Rolf Wallin
    Performer
    Kenneth Karlsson
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  6. 6 VI. Lean 08:08
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Lean
    Duration
    08:08
    Composer
    Rolf Wallin
    Performer
    Kenneth Karlsson
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  7. 7 VII. Quit 00:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Quit
    Duration
    00:20
    Composer
    Rolf Wallin
    Performer
    Kenneth Karlsson
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  8. 8 I. — 17:49
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    17:49
    Composer
    Klaus Lang
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  9. 9 II. — 03:58
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Klaus Lang
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  10. 10 The Empire of Lightt 10:41
    Track
    10
    Title
    The Empire of Lightt
    Duration
    10:41
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  11. 11 khasma 13:14
    Track
    11
    Title
    khasma
    Duration
    13:14
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  12. 12 stirrings I 00:51
    Track
    12
    Title
    stirrings I
    Duration
    00:51
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  13. 13 stirrings II 00:50
    Track
    13
    Title
    stirrings II
    Duration
    00:50
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  14. 14 stirrings III 01:01
    Track
    14
    Title
    stirrings III
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  15. 15 stirrings IV 00:51
    Track
    15
    Title
    stirrings IV
    Duration
    00:51
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  16. 16 stirrings V 00:52
    Track
    16
    Title
    stirrings V
    Duration
    00:52
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen
  17. 17 stirrings VI 00:53
    Track
    17
    Title
    stirrings VI
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Richard Barrett
    Ensemble
    Cikada Ensemble
    Conductor
    Christian Eggen