Lars Petter Hagen

Hagen is playing his audience, teasing their sense of new music mythology...Hagen is genuinely visionary: here's the most important new music disc to arrive for a long time. Go buy and hear the... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014 More…

Release Date: 21st Oct 2013
Catalogue No: ACD5074
Label: Aurora
Length: 64 minutes

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Hagen, L P: Norwegian Archives – for chamber orchestra and electronics

Work length17:57

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rolf Gupta

I Det norske som natur (Norwegian-ness as Nature)

Track length6:12

II 6 Salmer (Six Hymns)

Track length3:33

III Hørespill om melankoli (A Play About Melancholy)

Track length1:15

: IV St Tomas stille (St. Thomas Tuning)

Track length3:09

V Sørgemarsjer (Funeral Marches)

Track length3:48

Hagen, L P: The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins – for symphony orchestra

Work length11:49

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rolf Gupta

Hagen, L P: Tveitt Fragments – for string orchestra

Work length6:23

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rolf Gupta

Hagen, L P: Funeral March over Edvard Grieg – for chamber group and off-stage symphony orchestra

Work length9:23

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rolf Gupta

Hagen, L P: To Zeitblom – concerto for Hardanger fiddle and symphony orchestra

Work length19:18

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rolf Gupta, Gjermund Larsen

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On this CD the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Rolf Gupta perform the complete works to date by the contemporary composer Lars Petter Hagen whose imaginative music has gained him high regard especially in his native Norway. The Hardanger fiddle part in the concerto “To Zeitblom” is taken by rising star Gjermund Larsen.

Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen was born in 1975. His music has been performed by many of the world’s top modern music groups and orchestras, including Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Modern, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the SWR Symphony Orchestra. In addition to instrumental, vocal and electronic music, he also works with sound-installations and music for stage and film.

“Norwegian Archives” was written for the Donaueschingen festival in 2005, and is a 5 movement piece for chamber orchestra and electronics. The concerto “To Zeitblom” features an improvising solo Hardanger fiddle and was premiered at the same festival in 2011. In “Tveitt-Fragments” Hagen builds his music on bits of burned score pages found in the ruins after the fire on the Tveitt farm in 1970, which is said to have destroyed more than 300 of the composer’s works. “The Artist’s Despair...” reflects on the situation of the symphony orchestra post-Mahler. Also included is the “Funeral March over Edvard Grieg”, for Chamber group and an “off-stage” symphony orchestra.

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January 2014

Hagen is playing his audience, teasing their sense of new music mythology...Hagen is genuinely visionary: here's the most important new music disc to arrive for a long time. Go buy and hear the future.

Lars Petter Hagen

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