Barber: Summer Music / Jolivet: Serenade / Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik
1/31/1986, 15 Tracks, 55:39
Featuring
Per Hannevold
Lars Kristian Brynildsen
Gro Sandvik
Fred Johannesen
Steinar Hannevold
Bergen Wind Quintet
Samuel Barber
Harald Saeverud
André Jolivet
Paul Hindemith
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Performer Biography
The Bergen Wind Quintet received the French Senate's prize in 1982 for the best performance of a French work at the international chamber music competition in Colmar.
Composer Biography
Samuel Barber achieved international fame in 1938 when Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Orchestra performed his "Adagio for Strings."
Composer Biography
Samuel Barber was appointed professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music at the age of 28, after winning the American Prix de Rome.
Composition History
Paul Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik für fünf Bläser, Op.24:2, was composed in 1922 for the Frankfurter Bläser-Kammermusikvereinigung during a period of musical experimentation.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Harald Saeverud, a Norwegian composer, stated that the "living lines" are the vital nerve in all his music, not chords and harmonies.
Composer's Artistic Vision
André Jolivet, a French composer, aimed to "give music its original ancient character, from the time when it had a magic and exorcising effect for mal."
Performer Biography
The Bergen Wind Quintet, formed in its current state in 1981, consists of the solo wind players from the Bergen Symphony Orchestra.
