Amalie Stalheim, Christian Ihle Hadland – Stravinsky, Poulenc & Debussy: Works for Cello and Piano (2023)
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Award winning cellist Amalie Stalheim (b. 1993) is known for her technical brilliance, personal expression and unique tone and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Christian Ihle Hadland has estab-lished himself as a true craftsman of the piano, a musician whose del-icate, refined playing and individu-al touch have led him to the most prestigious stages in the world. Christian came to international at-tention in 2011 as a BBC New Gen-eration Artist. As an NGA he per-formed with all four of the BBC’s symphony orchestras and broad-cast solo and chamber recitals for the corporation in London. He also made his debut at the BBC Proms in London where he was praised by critics for his ‘pearly’ and ‘otherwordly’ sound.
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Johan Dalene & Christian Ihle Hadland – Stained Glass (2023)
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This recital brings together two established classics from the 20th century with lesser-known works from the repertoire for violin and piano. Alongside Ravel’s Sonata, a work that reveals the influence of jazz on the French composer, and Prokofiev’s wartime Sonata, Op. 94a, an idiomatic arrangement of its original version for flute, we find compositions by Arvo Pärt, Lili Boulanger and Grażyna Bacewicz, which, at times meditative, at times lyrical, at times folk-inspired, testify to the richness of this repertoire.
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Det Norske Blåseensemble, Christian Ihle Hadland & Eivind Aadland – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3, Haydn: Symphony No. 44 (2023)
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After several challenging years, marked by the pandemic and a harsh political climate, we fortunately have musical treasures we can unearth. This is precisely what the Norwegian Wind Ensemble has done. This spring, they present two masterful pieces of music that deserve the full attention of an interested listener.
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Johan Dalene, Christian Ihle Hadland – Nordic Rhapsody (2021)
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Only 20 years old, Johan Dalene has already been hailed as “a musician of special sensibilities” (Gramophone) in possession of “a rare fire” (Diapason), and his début recording, with the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Barber, was described as “one of the finest violin débuts of the last decade” in the BBC Music Magazine.
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Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland, Stephen Fitzpatrick – Saint-Saëns: Violin Works (2023)
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Im Laufe der Jahre hat das Publikum Cecilia Zilliacus’ ebenso verlockende wie warme Interpretationen von großen klassischen und romantischen Werken bis hin zu zeitgenössischer Kammermusik und genreübergreifenden Kooperationen begeistert angenommen – von den bedeutendsten Symphonieorchestern, Dirigenten und Komponisten in Europa über Jazzmusiker bis hin zu Volksmusikern, Singer-Songwritern und vielen anderen.
Der Austausch mit anderen Musikern und die Kommuni- kation mit dem Publikum sind Schlagworte der Projekte, an denen sie teilnimmt oder die sie initiiert.
Cecilia Zilliacus’ Bemühungen, die Aufmerksamkeit auf weniger bekannte Komponisten, sowohl männliche als auch weibliche, zu lenken, haben zu einem sehr breiten Repertoire geführt. Sie begrüßt ihr Publikum oft mit speziell für sie geschriebenen Kompositionen.
Sie arbeitet regelmäßig mit international tätigen Musikern, Komponisten und Dirigenten zusammen und hat eine Reihe Aufnahmen gemacht, von denen einige mit “Grammis” ausgezeichnet wurden.
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Andreas Brantelid, Christian Ihle Hadland – Grieg & Grainger: Cello works (2015)
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Although they were born forty years apart on opposite sides of the world, Edvard Grieg and Percy Grainger have much in common. The aim to become pianists and composers more or less forced both of them to leave their native countries – Norway and Australia respectively – in order to gain access to the great central European tradition that so dominated musical life during the second half of the 19th century. Grieg enrolled at the Leipzig conservatory in 1858 and Grainger at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1895, but their experiences were in many ways strikingly similar: both made progress as pianists, but neither of them found the German approach to the teaching of composition fruitful. Grieg’s strong attachment to Norwegian folk music made it difficult for him to compose in a way that conformed to the Germanic ideal, while Grainger some forty years later withdrew from the composition class at the conservatory in order to study privately. He too would find his greatest inspiration in folk music traditions, as exemplified in La Scandinavie for cello and piano, a suite of arrangements of Scandinavian folk songs. The two composers met in 1906, in London, and not surprisingly they got along famously. The meeting led to Grainger visiting Grieg in Bergen the following year, only two months before the older composer passed away. The Danish-Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid and his Norwegian chamber music partner Christian Ihle Hadland have teamed up in this programme of cello works by the two composers, opening with Grieg’s celebrated Cello Sonata. They also include less well-known pieces, however, such as the composer’s arrangement of the Allegretto from his third violin sonata, and an Andante con moto intended as part of a never completed piano trio, in which they are joined by the violinist Lars Bjørnkjær. Discovered after Grieg’s death, the piece would have to wait more than 70 years before receiving its first performance.
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