FULL JUBILEUM FÖR HILLBORG Stockholm 2024 Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ida Falk Winland, Hannah Holgersson
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: JUBILEUM FÖR HILLBORG
- Composer: Hillborg Anders
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden
- Recorded: January 19, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Ida Falk Winland, Hannah Holgersson
- Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Chorus: Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: berwaldhallen
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: berwaldhallen FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Program:
1) Liquid Marble (1995) (11’)
2) Kväll (1995) (04’) – A song with the soprano Hannah Holgersson and the violin soloist. No orchestra, just the voice and the violin. It lasts only 4 minutes.
3) Violin Concerto Nr. 2 (2016) (34’)
4) The Breathing of the World (2019) (09’) – This is a very strange work for orchestra, reduced chorus and two instrumental soloist. Not vocal soloists: but a soprano saxophone and a cello.
5) Sirens (2011) (36’) – this is the most important vocal work of the program for orchestra, large chorus and the two soprano soloists. It is mentioned on your page as orchestra only.
Per Anders Hillborg (born 31 May 1954) is one of Sweden’s leading composers.
Anders Hillborg was born in Sollentuna, and studied composition, counterpoint and electronic music at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm from 1976 to 1982. His teachers were Gunnar Bucht, Lars-Erik Rosell, Arne Mellnäs and Pär Lindgren. An important source of inspiration was Brian Ferneyhough who was a visiting professor at the time.
Apart from some minor teaching positions, professor in composition at Musikhögskolan i Malmö 1990 and masterclasses, Hillborg has been a freelance composer since 1982. His output is vast and covers genres as orchestral, choir, chamber works as well as film and popular music. An example of his work in the popular realm is his collaboration with Eva Dahlgren, which resulted in the album Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda (1995). The project was first presented at the Helsinki Festival with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
His collaboration with Salonen has resulted in numerous works, among others Dreaming River (premiered by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999), Eleven Gates (2005–06) premiered and commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. and most recently the large-scale work Sirens jointly commissioned by the LA Phil and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Other important recent works Cold Heat (2010) which was co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra, Zürich Tonhalleorkestern. The piece premiered in 2011 at Berliner Philharmonie under David Zinman.
Quoted from Wikipedia