Garden of Devotion
Lisa Larsson | The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra | Gordon Nicolic
Challenge Classics | HQ|NORTHSTAR
Catalogue CC72754
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Rolf Martinsson is one of Sweden's internationally leading composers. In this CD five works are gathered.
One work is for soprano and string orchestra: Garden of Devotion is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore set to music by Martinsson in 2013.
In To the Shadow of Reality, the soprano is istead accompanied by string quartet in these five songs with lyrics by Swedish poetess Karin Boye.
A.S. in memoriam is a piece for string orchestra. Composed in 1999; it is a homage to Arnold Schoenberg.
A piece called Landscape for solo violin is dated 2010 and takes its inspiration from The Strand, a painting by Edvard Munch.
The disc closes with a work for chamber orchestra, Kalliope, composed in 2004.
Op. 97 Trust Love
Op. 97 Do Not Keep
Op. 97 Do No Go
Op. 97 My Heart
Op. 97 Lest I Should Know
Op. 50a A.S. in Memoriam
Op. 96 Morgon
Op. 96 Hur kan jag saga
Op. 96 Fran en stygg flicka
Op. 96 Du ar min renaste trost
Op. 96 I rorelse
Op. 84 Landscape
Op. 66 Calliope Intrada
Op. 66 Urania
Op. 66 Terpsichore
Op. 66 Euterpe
Op. 66 Polyhymnia
Op. 66 Melpomene
Op. 66 Klio
Op. 66 Erato
Op. 66 Thalia
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