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As demonstrated by the four works on this disc, the music of Anders Hillborg couples complexity with directness, sensuality with humour, hypnotic meditation with pulsating rhythms, and all is combined with an original sense of form and unfaltering craftsmanship.
Hillborg recently became the first Swedish composer to have a work premièred by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra when Cold Heat was performed in January 2011.
Hillborg has called the symphony orchestra a 'sound animal'. His love affair with the orchestra started in the 1980s, when he abandoned electronic music, and around the same time, Hillborg formed a bond with the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who here conducts Dreaming River from 1998 and Eleven Gates, a work he premièred with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2006.
Sakari Oramo and Alan Gilbert are both among the most highly regarded conductors of our time, and also have a special relationship with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in common, as its current and former chief conductor. The Stockholm orchestra also commissioned both Dreaming River and Exquisite Corpse.
"There's something primal and organic in the depiction of the small fluctuations that occur within the build-up of a single monumental ocean wave. The dignified, unhurried unfurling of the sounds, not unlike that of John Adams' rarely performed Common Tones in Simple Time, respects the listener's ability to pay attention to and hear the beauty in the small or subtle incremental changes in the music... Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra provides virtuoso performances; even though Hillborg's music is easy on the ears, it makes extreme technical demands on its players and they handle it with assurance and panache. Sakari Oramo, the orchestra's principal conductor, and Alan Gilbert each lead one work, and Esa-Pekka Salonen leads two. The sound of the hybrid SACD is clean, warm, and nicely detailed, with a good sense of presence." -All Music Guide
Gramophone
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is on splendid form throughout, led by conductors who have championed these works at home and abroad. BIS's SACD sound is typically spectacular, making this release very strongly recommended.
Recording information: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden.
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Works Details
Hillborg, Anders : King Tide, for orchestra - Conductor: Sakari Oramo
- Ensemble: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 13 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1999
Hillborg, Anders : Exquisite Corpse, for orchestra - Conductor: Alan Gilbert
- Ensemble: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 13 min. 41 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2002
Hillborg, Anders : Dreaming River, for 2 oboes & orchestra - Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Ensemble: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 20 min. 27 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1998
Hillborg, Anders : Eleven Gates, for orchestra - Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Ensemble: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 1 min. 52 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2006
