Moving Circles "Årets Gang"
Ensemble Moving Circles - All year round.
Winter - Spring - Summer - Autumn.
The composer association ToneArts 25 years. 10 new compositions based on the time of year
As inspiration for setting the sound to the different seasons, each composer has taken a season as his starting point. We start from Liza Dalby's book "East Wind Melts the Ice", which contains a series of nice little old Chinese descriptions for each small week/period of the year.
Composers and program:
Early spring
Peter Danstrup : Fish swim upstream, breaking the ice
Pernille Bevort. : River otters sacrifice fish
Late spring
Emil Hess : Hawks become doves
Irene Becker. : Moles come forth
Summer
Pia Boda : Deer break antlers
Niels Gerhardt: Rotted weeds turn into fireflies
Autumn
Katrine Suwalski: The wolf sacrifices the beast
Dan Hjort: Insects tuck themselves away
Winter...
Line up:
- Anna Bignami: dirigent
- Mariane Bitran: fløjte
- Pernille Bévort: altsax, altfløjte, basklarinet
- Georgios Chrysanidis: violin
- Thomas Clausen: klaver
- John Ehde: cello
- Graig Earle: kontrabas
- Steen Hansen: basun
- Emil Hess: tenorsax, klarinet, basklarinet