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Svartskog, 6 October 2020
A new CD with two works by Maja S. K. Ratkje: Pictures From a Sinking City and Tale of Lead and Frozen Light, performed by The Trondheim Soloists and artistic director Geir Inge Lotsberg.
250 composers celebrate Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn. Two hundred and forty three years later, in that same city, a pianist starts commissioning 250 pieces for piano for the 250th anniversary of the old master.
New violin concerto by Sofia Gubaidulina
One of the leading composers of our time has given us yet another masterpiece, a concerto dedicated to violinist Vadim Repin and conductor Andres Mustonen.
I have spent my life writing music
– I’m a happy composer when I can compose, but to fight for that space in my life is strangely difficult, because of the success. And yet, of course, nobody can complain about things like that, says Kaija Saariaho.
Kaija Saariaho, this year’s Festival Composer in Bergen
«This is a production that enhances the importance of the Bergen International Festival» in the view of Bodil Maroni Jensen, referring to the oratorio La Passion de Simone.
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