Norwegian Chamber Orchestra - Helge Iberg: Life Music [CD]

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Award-winning musician and composer Helge Iberg releases the second of two albums in early 2018: Life Music. Life Music consists of two works: a 'quartet+1' on a grand scale, as well as a concerto for solo violin and strings. The two works relate to different aspects of life: The Micro Cosmos (our individual destiny) and The Macro Cosmos (the existential challenges of mankind).

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The micro cosmos is explored in the Quartet through eight movements u2013 their assigned titles varying from the descriptive to the absurd. As a whole the movements are an analogy for life itself, from the first 'Tentativo (First Steps)' to the last 'Discesa (Descent/Exit)'. Although playful and vital, the music also exudes dissolution and death at other times. The moods vary between the constructive and the destructive, from the safe to the dramatic.

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With 'Sisyphus' Dance of Endless Struggle', performed by The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Atle Sponberg as soloist, Iberg thematizes existentialism. The mythic figure King Sisyphus was cursed to push a boulder up a mountain, only for it to roll back down and he to repeat the action forever. A parallel to the meaninglessness of life; or the constant pursuit of perfection through the arts.

Iberg: Quatour Pour la Vie Singulixe8re (Life Music) I. Tentativo (First Steps) 05:35

II. Corragio (Hoopla!) 05:29

III. Respiro (Exhalation) 01:59

IV. Hybris (A Goat in the Machine) 02:55

V. Assertivo (Cool) 05:21

VI. A-Gnosi (Dwelling) 05:56

VII. Persistenza (Still Crazy) 02:30

VIII. Discesa (Descent/Exit)

Sisyphus' Dance of Endless Struggle

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