A Requiem in Our Time
A Requiem in Our Time is a gripping requiem written in memory of the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s mother. The piece became the composer’s breakthrough in 1954. Loss is the subject also of Edvard Grieg’s Sörgemarsj over Rikard Nordraak – an elegy to Grieg’s close friend and colleague, the composer Rikard Nordraak, who died when he was only 24 years old. Here we will hear the version for brass, arranged by Geoffrey Emerson in 1970. The concert was recorded in the Berwaldhallen Hall, 26th of February 2021.
Participants
Chris Parkes is a horn soloist with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also principal horn player of the John Wilson Orchestra and former principal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Furthermore, he performs with the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philharmonia Orchestra London and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Parkes has appeared as a soloist with, among others, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra led by John Wilson, Gianandrea Noseda and Daniel Harding. He has participated in chamber music projects and recordings with, for example, Anne Sofie von Otter, pianists Gwilym Simcock and Pierre-Laurent Aimard as well as with ensembles including Superbrass, the Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble and Fine Arts Brass. Parkes studied at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, where he has also been teaching since 2011.
Pedro Silva has been a member of the Swedish Radio Orchestra since 2020. He studied at the Musical academy of Lissabon and later on for Professor Markus Maskuniitty at Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media.
Norskfödde Tarjei Hannevold är solotrumpetare i Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester sedan 2005. Han har också varit engagerad som gästsolist hos orkestrar som Mahler Chamber Orchestra och Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Som kammarmusiker har han varit medlem av den internationellt erkända brasskvintetten Stockholm Kammarbrass. Tarjei Hannevold har vid flera tillfällen framträtt som solist med Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester.
Gianluca Calise is the principal leader in the trumpet section of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra since the summer of 2019. Prior to this, Calise studied at the City of Basel Music Academy and worked at the Zürich Opera and in the Oslofilharmonien.
James Kent is second trombonist in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Prior to this position, Kent has played in a.o. Orchestra Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Bruckner Orchester Linz, and Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with Munich Philharmonic, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Since 2018, Kent is on the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina and since 2020 of the Die Norddeustsche Orchesterakademie.
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