DAG MAGNUS NARVESEN:
QUOD EST IN NOMINE? (2024)
Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano
Dag Magnus Narvesen - drums and percussion
PMP Ensemble
Roland Dahinden - conductor
DIDRIK INGVALDSEN:
I LEFT BERLIN TWO WEEKS AGO... (2024)
Ellen Ugelvik - piano
PMP Orchestra
Roland Dahinden - conductor
ROLAND DAHINDEN:
TALKING WITH TRANE (2024)
Hildegard Kleeb - piano
PMP Orchestra
Roland Dahinden - conductor
QUOD EST IN NOMINE? is a piece which serves as a framework for exploring the interplay between a chamber ensemble and an improvising duo - Norwegian composer and percussionist Dag Magnus Narvesen and the legendary German free jazz pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. With some open parts, and some more strictly written parts (for the ensemble), it moves between different modes and moods at the crossroads of both preconceived and spontaneous musical material. The conductor has been given more agency through not only providing an opening for conducted improvisation, but also enabling him to insert parts of the composed material ad libitum, defying the temporal limitation of the score itself. In other words, many relationships are invited into the negotiation of the musical moment: The small and the large ensemble; the conductor and his instrument; and the composed and the improvised parts.
The composition I LEFT BERLIN TWO WEKKS AGO... is featured with Norwegian pianist Ellen Ugelvik. The performance is characterized by its improvisational parts. „It is about arrival and departure, returning and leaving once more,“ says the author, who explores the impressions gained from residing in a place for a certain period, departing from it, and subsequently returning.
John Coltrane’s compositions Giant Steps, Naima and Spiral
inspired Swiss composer Roland Dahinden to have an imaginary conversation with the aforementioned artist. In TALKING WITH TRANE, Dahinden employs rhythmic compression and overlapping scales and extends the specific sound of Coltrane‘s compositions into an orchestral domain. ,,While I‘m writing theses notes I‘m listening to Hildegard‘s playing, preparing for the concert at home. Her way playing with the graphical aspects of the notation is so inspiring and this brings me to the members of PMP Orchestra; the musicians bring so much into the music - what you hear is really a collaboration between us all‘‘ says the author.
World premiere / Live performance recorded March 24, 2024, at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic.
Lead sound and recording engineer: Jakub Hadraba
Producer: Jan Bartoš
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