Nordin: Voices From the Past Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra & Malin Broman, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Harding

• Jesper Nordin (b. 1971): Röster (Voices):
• 1 Nordin: Röster (Voices) - Åkallan (Invocation) 13:11
• 2 Nordin: Röster (Voices) - Ärr (Scar) 15:14
• 3 Nordin: Röster (Voices) - Öde (Fate / Deserted) 19:04
• 3rd Retrospective:
• 4 Nordin: 3rd Retrospective 17:09
• Total Runtime 01:04:38

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Leading Swedish composer Jesper Nordin’s soundscape lies at the crossroads of Swedish traditional music, rock and improvised music. On this recording, Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Röster (‘voices’), a trilogy whose works are each based on different kinds of Swedish music which the composer sees as being part of his background. In Åkallan (‘Invocation’), Nordin has used the traditional vocal technique called kulning as his starting point. Extreme metal rock (through the band Meshuggah) provided the material for Ärr (‘Scar’) and the result is an explosive rhythmic scream that has seldom been heard in classical music. Finally, Öde (‘Fate’ or ‘Deserted’) incorporates recordings by the legendary Swedish opera singers Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling in an electronic part which interacts with the orchestra.

Performed by violinist Malin Broman and the ensemble Musica Vitae, 3rd Retrospective belongs to a series of works in which Nordin looks back on his own music in various ways. Here, he goes back to the music of his childhood, written and played on the violin by his father. More specifically, he uses a tune from a play written by Nordin’s father, namely a polska, a traditional dance whose origins are to be found in Poland.

Malin Broman, violin
Musica Vitae

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Daniel Harding, conductor

Malin Broman
A passionate chamber musician, the violinist Malin Broman has toured extensively as a member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio and Nash Ensemble. In 2008 she was appointed leader of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has per formed Brahms’s Double Concerto with Steven Isserlis conducted by Daniel Harding, received rave reviews for Nielsen’s Violin Concerto and premièred concertos written for her by Helen Grime, Britta Byström, Andrea Tarrodi, Daniel Börtz, Daniel Nelson and Jesper Nordin. She regularly directs the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and is now in demand as a musical director/soloist. Engagements include performances with the Scottish Ensemble, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Trondheim Soloists and Nordic Chamber Orchestra. Since 2019 she has been artistic director of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in Finland. Malin Broman was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2008 and in 2019 she was awarded H. M. The King’s Medal for her services to music.

Musica Vitae
Since it was founded in 1979, Musica Vitae has developed into one of Sweden’s foremost string ensembles. Swedish and international soloists and conductors are often invited to perform but, in the true spirit of chamber music, the ensemble often plays under its artistic director Benjamin Schmid or leader Dorota Siuda. The classical chamber music repertoire forms the basis of Musica Vitae’s programmes, but the ensemble also ventures into contemporary music, jazz, children’s songs and pop music. It has given the premières of some 250 works, not only by well-established composers but also by students at Swedish music colleges. This wide-ranging repertoire is performed at venues large and small in Sweden, continental Europe and the rest of the world. Whether it is playing at its home base, Nygatan 6 in Växjö, or in concert halls, churches or converted cinemas, Musica Vitae always focuses on the interaction between audience and ensemble that is characteristic of chamber music, an exchange that is invigorating for all involved.

Daniel Harding
Born in Oxford, Daniel Harding began his career assisting Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with that orchestra at the 1996 Berlin Festival.

Mr. Harding is the music and artistic director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Prior posts include music director of the Orchestre de Paris (2016–19) and principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (2007–17). He is honored with the lifetime title of conductor laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and in 2018 he was named artistic director of the Anima Mundi Festival.

Daniel Harding is a regular visitor to the Vienna Philharmonic, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Milan’s Filarmonica della Scala. In 2005 he opened the season at La Scala, conducting a new production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. He returned for Richard Strauss’s Salome (in 2007), a double bill of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero (2008), Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, for which he was awarded the prestigious Premio della Critica Musicale “Franco Abbiati” (2011), Verdi’s Falstaff (2013), and, most recently, Schubert’s Fierrabras (2018). He also conducted Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Mozart’s Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic; Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Berg’s Wozzeck at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Bavarian Staatsoper; Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Wiener Festwochen; and Wozzeck at Theater an der Wien.

In 2002 Daniel Harding was awarded the title Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government, and in 2017 he was nominated to the position of Officier Arts et Lettres. In 2012 he was elected a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He is a qualified airline pilot.

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