1B1
offers a variety of high quality artistic projects, ranging from innovative
interpretations of classical masterpieces to multi-genre performances, and
programs for children. For booking requests, please contact Jan
Bjøranger or Erling Johansen. Contact details can be found here. |
Grieg, Grieg and Grieg
Featuring 1B1, 2 piano players and 3 X Grieg.
We make a journey trough Edvard Grieg´s Masterpiece «Aus Holberg´s
Zeit».The wonderful suite of dance movements is one of the composer’s
most performed pieces for string orchestra. The version for piano, which
actually is the original, and Grieg´s own arrangement of the piece is well
known to concert audiences all over the world.
When 1B1 makes another recording of this piece, it is also because of the third version that the orchestra developed in co-operation with the composer and pianist Erlend Skomsvoll. Here the composer finds his own way through the piece with his own comments, improvised parts and rearrangements of the original. He picks out energy points in the piece and develops the general character through focusing on these spots.
The production is a natural step in the «authenticy project» of the orchestra where we aim to play like children play with things they have in their hands, to rediscover the originals and develop the perspective on the tradition giving new energy for the future.
Christian Ihle Hadland, piano Erlend Skomsvoll, piano and composer 1B1, Jan Bjøranger
Good in life – «Dance»
Per Fronth:«Ode to a Hunter» – 6 minutes movie with music by Arvo Pärt and William Walton Grieg:«Aus Holberg´s Zeit» Bartok:«Rumanian Folk Dances»
Chiel Meijering:«Concertos for the Eagle and orchestra» – with Dan Laurin DJ (to be confirmed)
The end of the show will be like a dance party: The audience starts
dancing while the orchestra plays, and then the DJ comes along and continues to
play as the orchestra leaves the stage and starts dancing as well.
Dan Laurin, recorder Damien Bassman, percussion 2 or 3 dancers, plus amateur dancers in the audience DJ, Chiel Meijering, others 1B1, Jan BjørangerLibera Me – Good in life – «Singing»
Schostakovich op 110b Schoenberg "Friede auf Erden»
Peteris Vasks – short piece Peteris Vasks – commissioned piece
1B1, Jan Bjøranger Koris Latvija, Maris Sirmais
EEA supported project with premiere spring 2015 |
Big Bang – Concerts
for children, about taking part in music
Music by Grieg and Shostakovich
Host: Tony Valberg Child counterpart 1B1, Jan Bjøranger
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Bach and Telemann concertos for viola and bassoon
Lars Anders Tomter, viola Martin Kuuskmann, bassoon 1B1, Jan Bjøranger
 Kuuskmann, Tomter and 1B1 bring you a Bach you've never heard before.
Purists within the early music community; prepare to frown! We claim that this
is a natural continuance of the practice from Bach's own time.
Bach wrote 14 concertos for harpsichord around 1740 in Leipzig. That is; they are most known as harpsichord concertos – in reality they are arrangements of concertos for other instruments written as early as 1708. When working with the outstanding musicians of Collegium Musicum Bach re-worked his old concertos into new works, of course a completely standard procedure in those days.
Continuing his pioneering work with the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet in versions for viola, professor Lars Anders Tomter is joined by the outstanding bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann. Not only do they transcribe the solo concertos to fit their own instruments, they also construct a whole new concerto based on fragments and parts from other works. All in all much along the same lines which Bach and his colleagues did.
This project was released on CD by Simax in 2013. For more info and music clips: http://www.grappa.no/en/simax-classics/bach-and-telemann-concertos-for-viola-and-bassoon/
55 minutes show of suites
Telemann Suite in a-minor for recorder and strings Grieg «Aus Holberg´s Zeit», transition on Hardanger fiddle
Dan Laurin, recorder 1B1, Jan Bjøranger
A great program for ending conferences etcetera, this show was first
performed for Baker in Stavanger, October 2013
Scandinavia en-suite
Carl Nielsen: «Kleine Suite» op 1 Kurt Atterberg:Suite for violin,viola and strings
Edvard Grieg: «The Holberg Suite»
There is also room for a soloist work or other material in this program. It is well suited for churches. The program should not exceed 80 minutes, including a short break
1B1, Jan Bjøranger |
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