Anders Hillborg: Eleven Gates

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The present collection showcases Hillborg's typically multifaceted and wickedly good-natured humour...The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is on splendid form throughout, led by conductors... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: BISSACD1406
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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Hillborg: King Tide

Work length13:48

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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
Recorded: November 2000
Recording Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden

Hillborg: Exquisite Corpse

Work length13:41

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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Alan Gilbert
Recorded: September 2007
Recording Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden

Hillborg: Dreaming River

Work length20:28

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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Recorded: December 2009
Recording Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden

Hillborg: 11 Gates

Work length19:26

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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Recorded: December 2009
Recording Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden

No. 1, Drifting into D Major

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No. 2, Suddenly in the Room with Chattering Mirrors

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No. 3, D Major Still Life

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No. 4, Confused Dialogues with Woodpecker

Track length0:56

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No. 5, Suddenly in the Room with Floating Mirrors

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No. 6, Into the Great Wide Open

Track length3:56

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No. 7, Meadow of Sadsongs

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No. 8, Toypianos on the Surface of the Sea

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No. 9, String Quartet spiralling to the Seafloor

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No. 10, Seafloor Meditation (Whispering Mirrors at the Seafloor)

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No. 11, Waves, Pulse and Elastic Seabirds

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As demonstrated by the four works on this disc, the music of Anders Hillborg couples complexity with directness, sensuality with humour, hypnotic meditation with pulsating rhythms, and all is combined with an original sense of form and unfaltering craftsmanship.

Hillborg recently became the first Swedish composer to have a work premièred by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra when Cold Heat was performed in January 2011.

Hillborg has called the symphony orchestra a ‘sound animal’. His love affair with the orchestra started in the 1980s, when he abandoned electronic music, and around the same time, Hillborg formed a bond with the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who here conducts Dreaming River from 1998 and Eleven Gates, a work he premièred with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2006.

Sakari Oramo and Alan Gilbert are both among the most highly regarded conductors of our time, and also have a special relationship with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in common, as its current and former chief conductor. The Stockholm orchestra also commissioned both Dreaming River and Exquisite Corpse.

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January 2012

The present collection showcases Hillborg's typically multifaceted and wickedly good-natured humour...The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is on splendid form throughout, led by conductors who have championed these works at home and abroad. BIS's SACD sound is typically spectacular, making this release very strongly recommended.

Anders Hillborg: Eleven Gates

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