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- Summary: Originally commissioned by the city of Hull to celebrate the strong relationship with Scandinavia features the Norwegian trumpeter as well as Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang, Jez Riley French and the Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North conducted by Justin Doyle.
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- Record Label: Rune Grammofon
- Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Modern Composition, Structured Improvisation, Sound Sculpture
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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UncutOct 29, 2018An extraordinarily, beautiful, haunting piece of music. [Dec 2018, p.25]
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Oct 29, 2018Unlike similarly conceived recordings, this doesn't act as a pleasant backdrop for engaging in other activities; instead, it quietly refuses revelation without active participation from the listener.
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The WireOct 29, 2018Choirboys sing the poems of Nils Christian Moe-Repstad over Eivind Aarset’s guitar, but as with the more expansive orchestral passages, it can come across as earnestly ecclesiastical. The most affecting pieces are those where Henriksen and Bang strip it down, such as on “The Swans Bend Their Necks Backward To See God”, where pitched down trumpet lows like foghorns over the Humber valley. [Nov 2018, p.68]
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MojoOct 29, 2018Solemn, aesthetically rigorous environment this music occupies. [Dec 2018, p.93]