JO Ness - Marmaele, Morkganga
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Label: Lawo Classics
Cat No: LWC1245
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 16th December 2022
Contents
Artists
Marianne Baudouin Lie (cello)Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera
Conductor
Kai Grinde MyrannAbout
Mørkgånga is a narrow gorge somewhere in the Ringerike area in eastern Norway. I have never set foot there, but it is exactly the kind of place that Jon Øivind finds and cherishes when on his interminable hikes through the eastern Norwegian scrub, forest and fields. The moment you give a work a title which is more specific than, say, "symphony" or "sonata", then the listener has inevitably been influence with some sort of intent for the piece. It is no coincidence that the title Mørkgånga is taken from the forests around Oslo.
The marmæle comes from Norse folklore and is a half-man and half-fish sea creature. Legend has it, that if you catch the marmæle on a hook you have to ensure it's kept warm and released back into the sea before the day is up. Though we should generally be wary of listening to music too programmatically and literally, it is difficult to not hear the cello as the marmæle, a little creature giggling at a joke only he can understand. The work is not your archetypal instrumental concerto in the sense that the individual stands in contrast to the collective. Rather, it works as a symphonic poem with an extensive solo part in the tradition of, say, Berlioz's Harold en Italie, where the soloist comments on and illuminates the work's structure and content. The marmæle plays the role of a guide to its element.
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