Recharged by nature Pekka Kuusisto, Ostrobothnian Chamer Orchestra & Malin Broman

• Andrea Tarrodi (b. 1981):
• 1 Tarrodi: Acanthes 26:08
• Mats Larsson Gothe (b. 1965):
• 2 Gothe: Lied von der Erde 16:24
• Britta Byström (b. 1977):
• 3 Byström: Im Freien 21:36
• Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988):
• 4 Zinovjev: Recharged 06:06
• Total Runtime 01:10:14

Info for Recharged by nature

Das zweite gemeinsame Album des Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (OCO) und seiner künstlerischen Leiterin, Malin Broman. Recharged by nature" enthält Musik von einigen der interessantesten Komponisten auf der Achse Schweden-Finnland. Für alle Werke handelt es sich um eine Ersteinspielung.

Das Album beginnt mit dem Schweden Andrea Tarrodi (geb. 1981). Das Stück Acanthes, komponiert für zwei Violinen und Streicher, wurde 2017 für Pekka Kuusisto, Malin Broman und das Musica Vitae Orchester komponiert. Das Stück wurde von der Collage-Serie "Papiers découpés" des Künstlers Henri Matisse inspiriert. Als besonderes Beispiel diente ein Werk, das stilisierte Akanthuspflanzen zeigt. "Ich habe versucht, die verschiedenen Formen und Farben dieses Gemäldes in Musik zu übersetzen", resümiert Tarrodi.

Der bekannte schwedische Komponist Mats Larsson Gothe (geb. 1965) komponierte sein Streichorchesterstück Lied von der Erde für das 40-jährige Bestehen des Central Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra im Jahr 2012. Dem Komponisten zufolge bezieht sich der Titel des Stücks auf "den Aufstieg der Musik aus der Erde, wie aus einem volksmusikähnlichen Boden".

Britta Byströms (geb. 1977) Im Freien für Violine und Streicher (2020) ist das dritte Stück auf dem Album. Das zwanzigminütige Konzert, das für Malin Broman geschrieben wurde, entstand in den ersten Monaten der Corona-Pandemie, als die Komponistin, wie viele andere auch, in den sogenannten "Lockdowns" zu Hause saß. Das Stück ist auch von traditioneller westafrikanischer Musik inspiriert, die oft im Freien gespielt wird. "Das Stück ist wie eine Art musikalischer Ausflug ins Freie", charakterisiert Byström.

Abgeschlossen wird die Platte mit dem hellen und rhythmischen Recharged (2015/18) des finnischen Komponisten Sauli Zinovjev (geb. 1988). Der Rock-Hintergrund des Komponisten ist in diesem geradlinigen Werk, das in der Rezension von Helsingin Sanomat als "erste Explosion" beschrieben wird, deutlich zu hören.

Malin Broman, Violine & Leitung
Pekka Kuusisto, Violine
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

Malin Broman
is the first concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008. She served as artistic director of Musica Vitae in 2015–2020, premiering over 20 works and touring and recording extensively. In 2019, she succeeded Sakari Oramo as artistic director of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra.

As a guest leader, she has been invited to perform with ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. As combined soloist and leader she has performed with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Trondheim Soloists and ACO Collective. Soloist highlights include performances with the Gothenburg Symphony, Copenhagen Phil, BBC Scottish Symphony, Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields, and the Swedish Radio Orchestra, working with such conductors as Neeme Järvi, Andrew Manze and Daniel Harding.

In recent years, she has premiered concertos by Daniel Börtz, Britta Byström, Andrea Tarrodi and Daniel Nelson. She has recorded over 30 albums, including concertos by Carl Nielsen and Britta Byström. Recent releases include an album with music by Laura Netzel, and Stockholm Diary with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Her recording of Mendelssohn’s double concerto together with pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips and Musica Vitae was Grammy nominated in 2019.

She received much acclaim for her recording of Felix Mendelssohn’s string octet in the spring of 2020, where she played all eight parts herself. She has since made two similar recordings: Britta Byström’s octet A Room of One’s Own, and Johan Halvorsens Passacaglia recorded with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s solo contrabassist Rick Stotijn.

In 2001, she founded the Change Music Festival in Kungsbacka. She is also co-founder of Kungsbacka Piano Trio, with which she had played more than 700 concerts all ove the world, and of Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble which is made up of some of Europe’s most brilliant chamber musicians.

In 2008, Malin was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The Kungsbacka Piano Trio has received the prestigious Interpret Prize of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2019, she was awarded H.M. The King’s Medal. She is currently Professor of Viola at Edsberg Institute of Music in Stockholm. She plays a 1709 Stradivarius violin and a 1861 Bajoni viola, both generously loaned by the Järnåker Foundation.

Pekka Kuusisto
Violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto is renowned for his artistic freedom and fresh approach to repertoire. Kuusisto is Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor & Artistic Co-Director: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (from 23/24). He is also Artistic Partner with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, a Collaborative Partner of the San Francisco Symphony, and Artistic Best Friend of Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Kuusisto is an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music. In recent seasons Kuusisto has premiered new works by Sauli Zinovjev, Daníel Bjarnason, Anders Hillborg, Philip Venables and Andrea Tarrodi. He is also a gifted improviser and regularly engages with people across the artistic spectrum. Recent projects have included collaborations with Hauschka and Kosminen, Dutch neurologist Erik Scherder, pioneer of electronic music Brian Crabtree, eminent jazz-trumpeter Arve Henriksen, juggler Jay Gilligan, accordionist Dermot Dunne and folk artist Sam Amidon.

Kuusisto has released several recordings, notably for Ondine and BIS. With Pentatone, Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra presented the album First Light in 2021, featuring the world premiere recording of Nico Muhly’s violin concerto, Shrink. Kuusisto has recently recorded Ades’ Violin Concerto with Aurora and Nicolas Collon for Deutsche Grammophon, Hillborg’s Bach Materia and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos.3 and 4 with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard for BIS and Daniel Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra with the composer conducting for Sono Luminus. Past releases include Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Noesis concerto for violin and orchestra for Ondine and Sebastian Fagerlund’s violin concerto Darkness in Light for BIS, both recorded with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hannu Lintu.

Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (OCO)
Formed in 1972, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (OCO) is one of the best-known Finnish orchestras in the international arena. Under its founder, conductor Juha Kangas, it established an ambitious profile marked by a dynamic, quick-to-react sound and a repertoire stretching from the Baroque to the present day. Juha Kangas served as the orchestra’s Artistic Director until the end of 2008 and is now its Honorary Conductor.Collaboration with composer Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944–2008) spanning many decades is one example of the partnerships on which the OCO’s eminence is founded. The orchestra’s active role in promoting contemporary music has yielded over 190 premieres, many of which it has commissioned. The OCO has close relations with both Finnish composers and others in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Enjoying a wide international reputation, it has been awarded such honours as the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1993.The OCO has made over 80 recordings that have won acclaim and spread its name abroad. Recent examples are the CD of the Hamburg Symphonies by C.Ph.E. Bach conducted by Sakari Oramo (the Orchestra’s Artistic Director 2013–2019) that won a Finnish classical Emma in 2014 and was nominated as Record of the Year by the BBC Music Magazine, and A Finnish Elegy (Alba, 2018), conducted by Juha Kangas and nominated for both an Emma and an International Classical Music Award.In addition to performing in its home town, Kokkola, the OCO regularly tours both in Finland and abroad. In summer 2019 it made a return visit to the celebrated Würzburg Mozart Festival in Germany. Outside Europe, it has held concerts in Japan and New York.Sakari Oramo has been succeeded as Artistic Director by Swedish violinist Malin Broman, a renowned soloist, chamber musician and music director, who took over in autumn 2019.

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