This recording is a result of Alpaca Ensemble's close collaboration with two living composers. Both write music that reflects on humanity's place in a world profoundly greater than us. In the first work on the recording, Karin Rehnqvist takes the listener into outer space, while on the last track Ellen Lindquist paints us a vast landscape. In the music of Karin Rehnqvist, esoterism, mythicism and tradition are fused together with modernism's propensity for resistance and estrangement. At the same time, it's dialogue with traditional music, liturgy, rituals and folklore and adherence to vocal musical practice, allows the music to break into open forms and address the listener very directly. The music is intrinsically linked to voices, language, movement and the body. In the music of Ellen Lindquist, individual instruments and parts merge into large, sonorous landscapes. The composer often works in tandem with other art forms such as dance, poetry, performance and music theatre. In these interdisciplinary constellations, her music is allowed to insist on what is particular to instrumental music compared to other art forms, on it's abstract, permeable qualities, which those other disciplines can approach, but never really achieve.

Tracklist:

I banor - en kvartett i rÃ¶relse (In Orbit - a moving quartet) for violin, clarinet, cello and piano~I. I yttre rymden (Outer Sp
I banor - en kvartett i rÃ¶relse (In Orbit - a moving quartet) for violin, clarinet, cello and piano~II. -transit-
I banor - en kvartett i rÃ¶relse (In Orbit - a moving quartet) for violin, clarinet, cello and piano~III. Planet-lek (Planet Pla
I banor - en kvartett i rÃ¶relse (In Orbit - a moving quartet) for violin, clarinet, cello and piano~IV. - transit - outer space
I banor - en kvartett i rÃ¶relse (In Orbit - a moving quartet) for violin, clarinet, cello and piano~V. Lovsong (Laud)
I banor - en kvartett i rÃ¶relse (In Orbit - a moving quartet) for violin, clarinet, cello and piano~VI. - transit - outer space
I banor - en kvartett i rÃ¶relse (In Orbit - a moving quartet) for violin, clarinet, cello and piano~VII. Epilog (Epilogue)
LÃ¥ngt borta och nÃ¤ra (Far and near) for solo clarinet
Groundings for piano trio
Gaia for solo cello
Somniloquy for piano, cello and clarinet
Pastorale for solo piano

UPC: 7090020182469
Label: Lawo Classics
Release Date: 9.17.21
Format: CD

Lindquist / Alpaca Ensemble - Chamber Music (CD)