NMH Sinfonietta

• György Ligeti (1923–2006): Melodien
• Simon Røttingen (2000–): nøct (world premiere)
• Olivia Køppe Christoffersen: The Largest Planet Is a Star That Failed (world premiere)

• Carola Bauckholt (1959–): Treibstoff
• George Benjamin (1960–): At First Light

Participants

• Rolf Gupta (conductor)
• The Academy's Sinfonietta

Simon Røttingen: nøct

The material of this piece is linearity, with its temporal qualities, and stasis and its spacial qualities. Follow the line. A quiet line, a focused line, a broken line, a sour line, a lonely line, an augmented line, a dramatic line.

Simon says about the piece:

– I did not plan on writing music about the night, a “nøctyrne”. Yet, I found that having a poetic image, or an uniting extramusical character, opened up new possibilities of reimagining the material I already was working with. Is the night concentrated or relaxed? Is the night quiet or loud? Is the night active or static?

Olivia Køppe Christoffersen: The Largest Planet Is a Star That Failed

Read more about Olivia's piece and master project here (Norwegian site).