Lasse Thoresen | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Ieva Jokubaviciute (piano)

Thoresen: Invocations, Op. 52
Þorvaldsdóttir: Scape
Sørensen, B: Nocturnes (12)
Saariaho: Prelude for Solo Piano
Šerkšnytė: Fantasia for Solo Piano
Vasks: Music for a Summer Evening
Thoresen: Invocations, Op. 52

The recording project Northscapes weaves works—from the first decades of the twenty-first century by composers from the Nordic and Baltic countries of Europe—into a tapestry of soundscapes, vibrating between landscape and the imagination, between the external and internal, between nature and psyche. What these works for piano solo share is a particular attunement to nature, reverberating out of the ever-present reservoir of pagan myths, legends, and folk music of the region. Their sensitivity to the sonic environment allows these composers to explore the liminal space dividing yet connecting landscape, soundscape, and mindscape.