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In the video above you hear excerpts from a live version of Arne Nordheim's "Spur" performed by Frode Haltli and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya (copyright NRK).

NEW RELEASE: 09.11.2012
Frode Haltli: Arne Nordheim Complete Accordion Works
Arne Nordheim: Spur - concerto for accordion and orchestra · Dinosauros ·
Signals · Flashing
Frode Haltli, accordion · Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen, percussion · Raoul
Björkenheim, el. guitar · Norwegian Radio Orchestra · Christian Eggen, conductor

Frode Haltli's musical instincts and instrumental finesse goes directly to the core of Nordheim's modernistic/romantic idiom. Accordionist Frode Haltli is held in the highest regard world wide for his innovative work over the past 10 years, including several successful albums in the ECM catalogue. On his new release Frode Haltli presents the first recording ever of the complete works for accordion by his fellow countryman and musical explorer: Arne Nordheim. Through his music he redefined what the accordion can be, evoking both the organic as well as the near-electronic soundscape that this instrument is capable of.

The Nordheim oeuvre for accordion belongs to the standard of the international repertoire for the instrument, but has never been presented as a whole - until now. Frode Haltli's musical instincts and instrumental finesse goes directly to the core of Nordheim's modernistic/romantic idiom.

«If I can write a piece for aquarium?», Arne Nordheim exclaimed

This story was told by the legendary Danish accordionist Mogens Ellegaard, after having approached Nordheim on a bad phone line in 1967. His invitation, after the initial misunderstanding had been cleared, resulted in Nordheim's first work for accordion. All in all he wrote five pieces, all of them associated with Ellegaard. In fact Ellegaard also contributes on this recording also, as it is his playing we hear on the tape track for Dinosauros.

Open for interpretations

Haltli describes in the liner notes how he finds Nordheim's scores very open for interpretation. Together with Christian Eggen and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra he has recorded a haunting version of the Spur concerto. The trio Signals also features the phenomenal guitarist Raul Björkenheim and percussionist Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen.

Frode Haltli

Frode Haltli (b. 1975, Norway) began playing the accordion at the age of seven. His debut CD "Looking on Darkness" was released on the prestigious German record label ECM in 2002. Further releases include "Passing Images" where he is joined by trumpeter Arve Henriksen, viola player Garth Knox and vocalist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, as well as "Yeraz" together with Trygve Seim. Haltli has performed as a soloist with orchestras worldwide and is equally comfortable playing on contemporary music festivals in Warsaw, Witten and Huddersfield as on major jazz, classical and world music festivals. He has established links with several composers, among them Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Bent Sørensen, Rolf Wallin, Atli Ingólfsson, Hans Abrahamsen, Jo Kondo and Sam Hayden.

Release: 09.11.2012 | Catalogue number: PSC1328 | EAN: 7033662013289 |
Grappa Musikkforlag AS | Akersgata 7 | N-0158 Oslo | Norway | www.grappa.no | info@grappa.no |

"- Most impressive of all is the 26-minute "Spur", in which Haltli layers low wheezings, breathy staccato chordings and long notes akin to electronic tones over a densely-structured orchestral bed. Inquisitive and engrossing, it's at once alienating and beguiling, the suburban timbre of the accordion defied by its employment. [Andy Gill / The Independent]"

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