{"product_id":"lwc1221-hornflowers","title":"Hornflowers","description":"The NyNorsk Brass Quintet (Nynorsk Messingkvintett) conducted by Christian Eggen are joined by a host of guest musicians on the new release \u003cem\u003eHornflowers\u003c\/em\u003e.  The album features performances of the music of composer Nils Henrik Asheim.\r\n\r\nIn our time, the poet Keats' famous adage \"\u003cem\u003ebeauty is truth, truth beauty\u003c\/em\u003e\" might sound like a lost dream, but Nils Henrik Asheim's collection \u003cem\u003eHornflowers\u003c\/em\u003e, reimagines this relationship and brings hope to contemporary ears. Asheim is not a beauty-worshipping esthetician in the same way as Keats, but he examines the idea of beauty through poetic compositions.\r\n\r\nToday, beauty and truth appear as opposites truths are disputed and dismantled, while reality can come across as anything but beautiful. The works on this release, performed by the NyNorsk Brass Quintet, are also full of contradictions. Collected fragments, sounds, patterns, words, and dichotomies are utilized as building blocks, freed from their original context, and strung together in surprising and powerful constellations.\r\n\r\nAsheim has also given several of the piece's oxymoronic titles, like \"Burning Ice\", \"Singing Stones\", and \"Scream Soft\", and by this invites the listener to reflect upon differences of opinion and improbable compilations.\r\n\r\nThe brass instruments occupy and explore spaces we do not normally hear them occupy undressed and playful and their obvious natural place and inclusion in these constructions is both astonishing and liberating. It is precisely in the surprises, in the contrasts, in the distance between the building blocks and the grout that holds them together, that the uniqueness and tactility of this music is revealed.\r\n\r\nIn this way, Asheim creates his own musical lyricism where beauty and truth are exposed through contradictions and improbabilities.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eNyNorsk Brass Quintet (Nynorsk Messingkvintett)\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\nErlend Aagaard-Nilsen - Trumpet\r\nJørgen Arnesen - Trumpet\r\nDaniel Weiseth Kjellesvik - Horn\r\nIngebjørg Bruket - Trombone\r\nBerger Iver Færder - Tuba\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eGuest Musicians\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\nAnders Eidsten Dahl - Organ\r\nJennifer Torrence - Percussion\r\nSunniva Rodland - Harp\r\nGuro Bjørnstad Kraft, Sebastian Haukås - Trumpet\r\nMarie Solum Gran, Lena Wik, Benedicte Elnes - Horn\r\nSimen Rudi Solbakken - Trombone\r\nAnders Dalhaug - Bass Trombone\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eConductor\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\nChristian Eggen\r\n\r\n ","brand":"Lawo Classics","offers":[{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739511402820,"sku":"LWC1221-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739511435588,"sku":"LWC1221-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739511468356,"sku":"LWC1221-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739511501124,"sku":"LWC1221-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739511533892,"sku":"LWC1221-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739511566660,"sku":"LWC1221-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57338760331588,"sku":"LWC1221-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/LWC1221.jpg?v=1778484610","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/lwc1221-hornflowers","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}