Bent Sorensen:
Gondole for violin, viola and cello (2010)

Per Norgard:
Strings for violin, viola and cello (1992)
Tjampuan for violin and cello (1992)
Pastorale from ‘Babette’s Feast’ for violin, viola and cello (1988)

Kaija Saariaho:
Cloud Trio for violin, viola and cello (2009)

Henrik Hellstenius:
Rift for violin, viola and cello (2014)

Nordsendingwas the name given by southern Norwegian people of the late Medieval and Early Modern period to magical attacks from the sorcerous sub-Arctic and Arctic. It was the ‘broadcast from the north’. Other peoples had other names for it, but they all understood it similarly: the invisible medium through which splinters of iron, stone arrowheads and little mice were shot into the bodies of the healthy by Northern witches.

With this programme of string trios –and one duo –by four Nordic composers, Trio Aristoshas devised a nordsendingof their own: thoroughly contemporary, but equally magical. The members of Trio Aristos have in various constellations worked with each of the composers –most extensively with Per Norgard, the grand old man of Danish music, who is represented here with three works composed in the years around 1990, including the duo Tjampuanfor violin and cello.

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Recording: December 2009 (Strings); March 2010 (Pastorale); June 2012 (Tjampuan); January 2013 (Gondole); June 2013 (Cloud Trio); March 2014 (Rift ) at the Karol Szymanowski Academy Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland