Malin Bång: Works for Orchestra (Live)

Featuring

Ilan Volkov
Peter Rundel
Uli Fussenegger
Jonny Axelsson
Enno Poppe
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln

SWR Symphonieorchester
Klangforum Wien
Malin Bång

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Malin Bång often incorporates acoustic objects into her orchestrations to expand the sound world, suggesting that musical content can be shaped by anything valuable to the artistic purpose.

Critical Reception

Malin Bång's work splinters of ebullient rebellion received two awards: the Orchestra Prize of the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 2018 and the Christ Johnson Prize in 2020.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Malin Bång, the composer, imagines the orchestra as a vast performance space where musicians are spread out, ready for any musical action.

Composer Biography

Malin Bång is a composer in residence and a founding member of the Curious Chamber Players, an ensemble with whom she explores mixed, amplified instrumental ensembles extended with acoustic objects.

Compositional Technique

All pieces on this album by Malin Bång have motion as their central element, with the flow of motion generating the formal frame of the music.

Recording & Production

All the pieces on this CD are live concert recordings, mostly from their world premieres, capturing the tension and energy of the music's first encounter with an audience.