Label: NEOS 11201
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ARTISTS: ELISION ensemble: Daryl Buckley, Artistic Director. Richard Haynes, clarinets [04] & saxophone · Graeme Jennings, violin. Benjamin Marks, trombone · Carl Rosman, bass clarinet [06] & voice. Peter Veale, oboes · Tristram Williams, trumpet.

Label: NEOS 11208
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ARTISTS: Aleph Gitarrenquartett: Andrés Hernández Alba, guitar/acoustic bass guitar. José Javier Navarro Lucas, guitar. Wolfgang Sehringer, guitar/terz guitar.Tillmann Reinbeck, guitar Petra Hoffmann, soprano. Ernesto Molinari, clarinet.

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ANDERS ELIASSON (*1947)
Desert Point (1981); Ostácoli (1987); Sinfonia per archi (2001)

Arcos Chamber Orchestra/John-Edward Kelly
“Music was the only way I could survive in this world.” Even as a young boy, Anders
Eliasson used to arrange his toy soldiers into an orchestra, sit in front of them and sing, imitating the sounds of the instruments. The earliest music he can remember is “my own singing”. At the age of nine he was given a trumpet, received some lessons from experienced jazzmen, and soon became the leader of his own combo (two clarinets, trombone, drums, guitar and trumpet.
Listening to the three works on this CD, it becomes obvious that Eliasson’s style has changed over the years. It is a long way from the vehemence and timbral extremes of Desert Point to Ostácoli, which has become a sort of classic for string orchestras, or the broadly reverberant introspection of Sinfonia per archi, circumscribing a huge, delicately gossamer arc of tension. Yet no one can foresee what will come next, for each piece is a self-sufficient entity that poses its own demands.