Musica Da Camera Ensemble Bjørvika

• 1 String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: First Movement 09:20
• 2 String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: Second Movement 09:20
• 3 String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: Third Movement 03:21
• 4 String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31: Fourth Movement 07:18
• 5 Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 1. a Stranger's Face 02:46
• 6 Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 2. the Rose 02:16
• 7 Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 3. the Eternal Battlefield 01:49
• 8 Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 4. Oil, Bread and Wine 01:47
• 9 Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 5. at Brendan Behan's Litter 01:58
• 10 Six Songs to Poems by Jens Bjørneboe, Op. 56: 6. My Heart 03:36
• 11 Piano Quintet, Op. 59: First Movement 08:43
• 12 Piano Quintet, Op. 59: Second Movement 03:09
• 13 Piano Quintet, Op. 59: Third Movement 09:07
• 14 Piano Quintet, Op. 59: Fourth Movement 07:18
• Total Runtime 01:11:48

Info for Musica Da Camera

This music is inventive, melodic, (the tune that opens the 1st movement of the piece will haunt your brain for days), but in no sense whatsoever a pastiche of works by other composers. Morten Gaathaug is best described as an eclectic romantic and his music has an appealing freshness, clarity and originality that, on the basis of this album, should be much more widely known.

The ‘Quintet for Piano and Strings’ is written in a classical four-movement layout with two vigorous Allegros framing a delicious Scherzo and a lovely reflective Adagio. The performance by Ensemble Bjørvika, a quartet made up of players from the orchestra of the Norwegian National Opera, and Tore Dingstad (the dedicatee) is all one could ask for.

Ensemble Bjørvika
Per Andreas Tønder
Ellen Ugelvik
Tore Dingstad

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