1. Lasse Thoresen: Invocation Of Pristine Light 2. Lasse Thoresen: Invocations Of Rising Air 3. Lasse Thoresen: Invocations Of Crystal Waters 4. Lasse Thoresen: Stages Of The Inner Dialogue 5. Maurice Ravel: Miroirs - Noctuelles 6. Maurice Ravel: Miroirs - Oiseaux Tristes 7. Maurice Ravel: Miroirs - Une Barque Sur l'océan 8. Maurice Ravel: Miroirs - Alborada Del Gracioso 9. Maurice Ravel: Miroirs - La Vallée Des Cloches
This is the first solo album by the Norwegian pianist Vebjørn Anvik. The album was recorded in the beautiful acoustics in one of the oldest concert venues in Oslo, famous for its lovely sound, Den Gamle Logen. The repertoire chosen for this project is the combination of Lasse Thoresen and Maurice Ravel.
Vebjørn Anvik, who has on a number of occasions given brilliant interpretations of my music, has told me that for this album release he has chosen a Ravel piece that represents Impressionism, and that this style and its subsequent derivatives throughout the years have certain features that he and others find similar to some of my works. He has asked me to comment on this.
Impressionism was far from my mind when I began composing. My first and most formative compositional ideal during my teenage years was Fartein Valen, a Norwegian pioneer of modernism, who wrote motif-based, atonal music that was o en very rigorously structured. His education and musical forebears place him firmly in the Brahms-Beethoven-Bach tradition of composers who favoured a strict structural basis for their compositions and who were partial to an organic development of form. My ideals in the area of compositional technique are found in this group, in other words they are German, not French.
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