Flaminis Aura: Works By Tommie Haglund

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Label
BIS
Release Date
July 7, 2017
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      HAGLUND, TOMMIE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Gothenburg Symphony, Malmo Symphony Orchest
    • PERFORMER
      Glaser, Afkham, Zilliacusperssonraitinen, Kretz-Larsson
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 07, 2017
    • UPC
      7318599920252
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2025
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

This composer portrait opens with Tommie Haglund's first score for full orchestra - the cello concerto Flamnis aura. Composed in 2001 and rewarded 13 years later with Sweden's most important composition prize, the work is in a single movement with a slow basic pulse, the work is in a single movement with a slow basic pulse, and thus conforms to a recurring pattern within Haglund's production. Its Latin title describes a state immediately prior to a religious revelation, and the music forms an exploration of both the human interior and the cosmos - towards the end of the work a tape with space sounds recorded by NASA is heard: a ''Song of Earth''. Performed by Ernst Simon Glaser and the Gothenburg Symphony, the concerto is followed by another composition from 2001, the string quartet Il regno degli spiriti, and the string trio Sollievo. Both these works are here performed by the highly regarded string trio ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen, joined by Julia Kretz-Larsson on second violin in the quartet. Sollievo... was composed for ZPr in 2013, and its title - ''relief after teh storm'' - refers to the end of a period of painful treatment following a back operation. With a generous playing time of close to 84 minutes, teh album closes with Serenata per Diotima from 2014, interpreted by the strings of Malmo Symphony Orchestra with substantial violin solos from Hakan Rudner. Celebrating the female philosopher of Greek antiquity, the piece was also inspired by the birth of teh composer's first grandchild.