Bjørn Morten Christophersen – Woven Brass

Oslo Philharmonic Brass

This album is now available in 5.1.4 Channel Auro3D 96k Immersive Audio.
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This album is spun out of the musical friendship between Christophersen and Haltlia, and features whirling overtone spectra, virtuosic gestures, beautiful melodic ambiguity and quiet spaces – musical moments and extended structures – all woven together into an hour-long musical narrative. Bjørn Morten Christophersen is continually in pursuit of new musical stories. Whether writing for choir, orchestra, chamber ensembles or TV drama, a clear voice always carries the narrative. The six musicians gathered for this recording are all members of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and they play together in the ensemble Norwegian Brass Expo. They are among the best and most experienced brass players in Scandinavia and come from a Nordic brass tradition advocating a homogenous and beautiful sound.

Tracklist

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1.
The Wind Blows Where it Desires
09:35
2.
A Brass Chat
02:03
3.
Passing Scherzo
00:33
4.
Air
01:56
5.
Sliding March
01:11
6.
Circo Dodecafonico
05:52
7.
Balloon Music
01:00
8.
Sentimental Pebbles
04:23
9.
Theme without Variations
00:53
10.
Ohrwurmer Fantasie
05:47
11.
Octatonic Song
03:09
12.
Intersubject
01:08
13.
Chaconne
07:14
14.
Woven Brass Quintet
13:51

Total time: 00:58:35

Additional information

Label

SKU

2L143

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Digital Converters

Merging Technologies, Horus

Editing Software

Pyramix

Mastering Engineer

Morten Lindberg

Microphones

DPA

Notes

We are pleased to announce the availability of this release in DSD 64, DSD 128 and DSD 256, as well as the original DXD recorded release.  These higher resolution DSD bitrates were produced from the original DXD recording using a Pyramix Digital Audio Workstation by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield.

The sonic advantage to these new Stereo DSD 64, DSD 128 and DSD 256 releases, as with all higher DSD bit rate releases, is the wider audio frequency passband prior to the onset of modulation noise.This results in allowing the listener’s DAC to use gentler and more phase linear filters for playback of the music.

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Producer

Morten Lindberg

Recording Engineer

Gjermund Skog

Recording location

Jar Church, Norway June 2017

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DXD

Release DateFebruary 13, 2019

Press reviews

The Arts Desk

Woven Brass is a disc to suit all listening habits, a collection of brass pieces ranging from 33 seconds to 14 minutes in length. They can be enjoyed in isolation. Or, heard in sequence, they form an extended multi-movement work.

Christophersen’s little Sentimental Pebbles was the starting point, a melting hymn for trumpet and organ here rescored for brass quintet. Here it’s a mellow centerpiece. We get pieces for quintet, trio, and an arresting opener for three trumpets.

The writing is so, so idiomatic, and Christophersen’s direct musical language is readily accessible. Trombone glissandi in the little Sliding March sound like distant sirens, and Circo Dodecafonico’s twelve-tone hijinks are witty and lyrical.

Trumpeter Jonas Haltia is outstanding in an extended solo Chaconne, and the disc’s disparate threads are knitted together in the final quintet piece, Woven Brass. Quite exceptional, and one of the best and most arresting brass albums I’ve ever heard.

The playing, each musician drawn from the Oslo-Filharmonien (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra), is stellar. Production values are very high too. 2L’s fiendishly advanced recording process is outlined in the booklet. Which wouldn’t matter if the results weren’t intensely musical. Listen with closed eyes and you can visualize exactly where the players are sitting.

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