Terje Rypdal: Melodic Warrior
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Label: ECM
Cat No: 3729504
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 24th June 2013
Contents
Artists
The Hilliard EnsembleTerje Rypdal (guitar)
Works
And The Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls and Angels, op.97Melodic Warrior, op.79
Artists
The Hilliard EnsembleTerje Rypdal (guitar)
About
‘And The Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls And Angels’ meanwhile, documents the premiere of Terje’s op. 97. Composed in 2009, inspired by Cannes’ International Fireworks Festival and recorded with the Wroclaw Philharmonic, it is a darkly-expressive piece of concentrated, explosive power. Both pieces could only have been written by Terje Rypdal, a musician who has spent much of his creative life in the spaces between the genres.
Rypdal’s journey as a composer of works for ensembles and orchestras began in the late 1960s. Already established in Norway as a rock and pop guitarist, he was beginning to explore jazz improvisation in the company of George Russell and Jan Garbarek, when exposure to the music of Ligeti and Penderecki opened up new and compelling soundworlds. From 1969 he studied composition under Finn Mortensen and in 1971 premiered his first big piece, Eternal Circulation, with the Oslo Philharmonic and the Jan Garbarek Group. 1973’s Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away was an early recorded instance of Terje’s combining of improvised and notated elements in a strikingly original - and influential - chamber music outside the genres.
Since then other Rypdal ECM recordings with large instrumental forces include the awardwinning “Undisonus” with Terje Tønnesen and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, “Q.E.D.” (recorded 1991), “Double Concerto/5th Symphony” (1998), “Lux Aeterna” (2000), and “Crime Scene” (2009), the latter with the Bergen Big Band.
Personnel: Terje Rypdal (guitar), The Hilliard Ensemble, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sebastian Perloswski (conductor)
Tracks:
Melodic Warrior op.79
1. Awakening
2. Easy Now
3. Song Of Thunders
4. The Secret File
5. My Music Reaches To The Sky
6. But Then Again
7. A Prayer
8. Magician Song
9. The Morning Star
And The Sky Was Coloured with Waterfalls and Angels op.97
10. I
11. II
12. III
13. IV
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