Lost Landscapes

Featuring

Pekka Kuusisto
Ida Falk Winland
Brad Lubman
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Anders Hillborg

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Compositional Technique

In Sound Atlas, the orchestra often deviates from standard tuning, playing quarter-tones or three-quarter-tones flat or sharp, or simply 'slightly sharp' or 'slightly flat'.

Composer Biography

Anders Hillborg, the composer, studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where György Ligeti and Brian Ferneyhough were visiting professors.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Hillborg's music is described as essentially Nordic, extending the region's long musical exploration of 'light' with implications ranging from a day's progress to the planet's existence.

Compositional Technique

Nordic composers, including Hillborg, have advanced the principles of spectralism, using nature's gradations of color to liquify texture and grade timbre.

Performer Biography

Pekka Kuusisto, a violinist, conductor, and composer, is known for his visionary artistry and creative freedom, often presenting innovative programs in his dual role.

Performer Biography

The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1905, was appointed the National Orchestra of Sweden in 1996 by the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament).

Instruments

Sound Atlas features the verrophone, a larger descendant of the glass harmonica patented in 1983 by Sascha Reckert, which consists of glass tubes arranged by length.