Norrbotten NEO, Christian Karlsen – Klas Torstensson: Lantern Lectures, Vols. 1-4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:06 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Although born in Sweden, Klas Torstensson has spent most of his working life in the Netherlands following his studies in Utrecht in the early 1970s. Stylistically, he may call to mind Varèse, Xenakis and – perhaps more distantly – Stravinsky. First and foremost, however, Torstensson’s music is personal and distinctive. It is often nourished by his experiences of nature: rough granite, the sea, ice in the frozen Baltic inlets, the polar ice cap.
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Jakob Kellermann, Vivane Hagner, Julianna Koch, BBC Philharmonic & Christian Karlsen – Takemitsu: Spectral Canticle (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:53 minutes | 999 MB | Genre: Classical
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The first Japanese composer to achieve international status, Tōru Takemitsu proposed a fusion between Western music and the culture of his country. His music radiates a lyrical intensity that comes as much from his roots in the early modernists Debussy and Alban Berg as from his affinity with the more overtly experimental mid-twentieth-century styles of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Played throughout the world, he is considered one of the most important composers of the second half of the 20th century.
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