John Storgårds, Lapland Chamber Orchestra - Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee, 10 Canons for 9 Instruments (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 201 Mb | Total time: 53:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dacapo Records | # 6.220585 | Recorded: 2020
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 201 Mb | Total time: 53:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dacapo Records | # 6.220585 | Recorded: 2020
The Dacapo label enters the graphic territory of its rival ECM here, with clean black-and-white graphics and sans serif fonts and equally crisp contemporary music that makes no concessions to popular taste but nevertheless offers a kind of accessibility. It is easy enough to imagine Schnee (snow in German – not Danish, interestingly) in composer Hans Abrahamsen's work, which fills the entire album. The music begins with an almost imperceptible high violin note as if to suggest sub-sensory beginnings of a period of snow. Abrahamsen has evinced a fascination with snow in other works, but it is perhaps reduced to its essence here.