Stories Håkan Hardenberger & Martyn Brabbins

• Betsy Jolas (b. 1926):
• 1 Histoires vraies 19:41
• Sally Beamish (b. 1956): Trumpet Concerto:
• 2 Trumpet Concerto: I. Prelude. Adagio - Allegro 06:57
• 3 Trumpet Concerto: II. Andante 07:28
• 4 Trumpet Concerto: III. Allegro - Presto 08:40
• Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968): Miramondo multiplo:
• 5 Miramondo multiplo: I. Aria dell'angelo 04:14
• 6 Miramondo multiplo: II. Aria della memoria 03:10
• 7 Miramondo multiplo: III. Aria del sangue freddo 03:57
• 8 Miramondo multiplo: IV. Aria della pace 03:29
• 9 Miramondo multiplo: V. Aria del piacere 03:20
• Total Runtime 01:00:56

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Alongside his celebrated performances of the classical repertory, Håkan Hardenbergeris also renowned as a pioneer of significant new trumpet works. The three works on this disc were all composed with him in mind, and illustrate his many-facetted musical persona. The most recent of them, ‘True Stories’ by Betsy Jolas, was written in order to give Hardenberger and Roger Murarooccasion to perform together. Its title springs from the fact that the work forms the composer’s first attempt to work with sounds selected from daily life and either ‘tamed’ through stylization or left quasi crude.

Sally Beamishfound inspiration for her concerto in ItaloCalvino’s book Invisible Cities which, in her own words, ‘reflects aspects of city life: the organised architecture but seeming randomness; the sparkling though shabby beauty, in contrast to the dark, sordid underbelly –rusting pipes, waste, squalor.’ Finally, in …miramondomultiplo…, Olga Neuwirthincorporates stylistic and melodic references, for instance from her own works and the music of Handel, but also to the performance style of the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, lending each movement a musical atmosphere of its own. As a result, the concerto has been described as ‘a sequence of five very different musical stories’. The conductor in all three works is Martyn Brabbins, whose credentials in the field of contemporary music are impressive, having conducted hundreds of world premières across the globe.

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Roger Muraro, piano
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

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