Nordheim: Response / Tanaka: 2 Movements for Marimba

Featuring

Odd Sagland
Joan Guinjoan
Keiko Abe
Harald Saeverud
Toshimitsu Tanaka
Arne Nordheim

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Compositional Technique

Joan Guinjoan's "Tension-Relax for Percussion" uses a free musical style to describe emotional states and transforms an exotic atmosphere into Afro-Cuban rhythms.

Composer Biography

Harald Saverud, born in Bergen, Norway, remained closely linked with the city throughout his life and lived amidst the natural environment he valued.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Harald Saverud stated that his music, like Norwegian folk songs and dances, arose directly from the Norwegian landscape and the soul of the people, not from folk music itself.

Compositional Technique

In Keiko Abe's "Dream of the Cherry Blossoms," the repeated note E forms a constant line around which melodic elements are entwined and rhythmically modified, creating a sense of flowing movement.

Performer Biography

Odd Borge Sagland, a Norwegian percussionist, became the youngest full-time student at the Norwegian College of Music at age 17 and has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Composer Biography

Joan Guinjoan, born in 1931 in Riudoms, Spain, studied composition in Barcelona and Paris.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Keiko Abe's "Dream of the Cherry Blossoms" for Marimba, based on a Japanese folk song, creates a musical sketch reminiscent of two-dimensional Far Eastern pictorial art.