Ness & Prokofiev: Fire Walker - Music for Oboe / Walker

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Label
LAWO Classics
Release Date
February 23, 2024
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Jon Oivind Ness, Sergei Prokofiev
    • PERFORMER
      Marion Walker
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 23, 2024
    • UPC
      7090020182810
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      LWC1259
    • LABEL
      LAWO Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. I. Tema con variazioni

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Marion Walker, Ingvill Hafskjold, Sara Övinge, Anders Rensvik, Marius Flatby

    2. II. Andante energico

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Marion Walker, Ingvill Hafskjold, Sara Övinge, Anders Rensvik, Marius Flatby

    3. III. Allegro sostenuto ma con brio

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Marion Walker, Ingvill Hafskjold, Sara Övinge, Anders Rensvik, Marius Flatby

    4. IV. Adagio pesante

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Marion Walker, Ingvill Hafskjold, Sara Övinge, Anders Rensvik, Marius Flatby

    5. V. Allegro precipitato, ma con brio

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Marion Walker, Ingvill Hafskjold, Sara Övinge, Anders Rensvik, Marius Flatby

    6. VI. Andantino

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Marion Walker, Ingvill Hafskjold, Sara Övinge, Anders Rensvik, Marius Flatby

    7. Bælþræk

      Composer: Jon Oivind Ness

      Performer: Marion Walker, Sara Övinge, Anders Rensvik, Gunnar Hauge

    8. Bælsiþ

      Composer: Jon Oivind Ness

      Ensemble: Ensemble Ernst

      Performer: Marion Walker

      Conductor: Thomas Rimul


The quintet, with its peculiar instrumentation and its tonal and rhythmic playfulness— described by some as “successfully circusy”—is a prime example of Prokofiev as an ironist and humorist, a superb craftsman who elegantly juggles his material and produces surprisingly sonorous, tonal and rhythmic kaleidoscopes. Humour has long been a central ingredient in Jon Øivind Ness's music, but there has been a development from the anarchistic maximal to the punctuated minimal.