Rehnqvist & Lindquist Alpaca Ensemble

• Karin Rehnqvist (b. 1957): In Orbit - a moving quartet:
• 1Rehnqvist: In Orbit - a moving quartet: I. Outer Space05:30
• 2Rehnqvist: In Orbit - a moving quartet: II. Transit00:29
• 3Rehnqvist: In Orbit - a moving quartet: III. Planet Play02:54
• 4Rehnqvist: In Orbit - a moving quartet: IV. Transit - Outer Space - Transit04:45
• 5Rehnqvist: In Orbit - a moving quartet: V. Laud05:19
• 6Rehnqvist: In Orbit - a moving quartet: VI. Transit - Outer Space02:07
• 7Rehnqvist: In Orbit - a moving quartet: VII. Epilogue05:36
• Ellen Lindquist (b. 1970):
• 8Lindquist: Far and Near08:03
• 9Lindquist: Groundings08:03
• 10Lindquist: Gaia07:27
• 11Lindquist: Somniloquy07:13
• 12Lindquist: Pastorale03:29
• Total Runtime01:00:55

Info for Rehnqvist & Lindquist

This recording is a result of Alpaca Ensemble’s close collaboration with two living composers. Both write music that reflects on humanity's place in a world profoundly greater than us. In the first work on the recording, Karin Rehnqvist takes the listener into outer space, while on the last track Ellen Lindquist paints us a vast landscape.

In the music of KARIN REHNQVIST, esoterism, mythicism and tradition are fused together with modernism’s propensity for resistance and estrangement. At the same time, its dialogue with traditional music, liturgy, rituals and folklore and adherence to vocal musical practice, allows the music to break into open forms and address the listener very directly. The music is intrinsically linked to voices, language, movement and the body.

In the music of ELLEN LINDQUIST, individual instruments and parts merge into large, sonorous landscapes. The composer often works in tandem with other art forms such as dance, poetry, performance and music theatre. In these interdisciplinary constellations, her music is allowed to insist on what is particular to instrumental music compared to other art forms, on its abstract, permeable qualities, which those other disciplines can approach, but never really achieve.

Sigrid Stang, violin
Marianne B. Lie, cello
Else Bø, piano
Rolf Borch, clarinet

Alpaca Ensemble
derives from the piano trio Alpaca Trio, a versatile chamber group frequently collaborating with other musicians, artists and composers. They initiate innovative projects crossing and questioning boundaries between established genres, and have had numerous works written for them.

Sigrid Elisabeth Stang studied with Bjarne Fiskum and Levon Chilingirian at the Music Concervatory in Trondheim (now NTNU), Norway, and later with Dona Lee Croft at the Royal College of Music, London, where she was awarded Distinction on her solo-/ensemble recitalist diploma. She has participated on masterclasses with Lorand Fenyves, Eugene Sarbu, Hugh Bean, Sergei Fatkouline and Leo Philips. She has appeared as soloist with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, as well as several chamber orchestras, such as the Trondheim Soloists and Midt-norsk Solistensemble. She won the “Best Performance” and the “Best Bach Performance” at the Ealing Music Festival i 1998, and “The Leonard Friedman Violin Award” at the Mendelssohn on Mull festival in 2000. Between 1999-2001 she worked as student assistant at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.

Since 2001, Sigrid has been based in Trondheim, Norway, working with Orquestra do Norte (Portugal), the Trøndelag Theatre, Ensemble NOOR, Camerata Nordica, Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, as well as most of the Norwegian symphony orchestras. She also is co-founder and -organiser, as well as a player, of Eisler Ensemble and Alpaca Ensemble, doing concerts, tours, artist collaborations, commissions and CD productions.

Since 2010, Sigrid has held a full time position as violinist in the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and the Trondheim Soloists.

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