Aurora records is pleased to present Kari Beate Tandberg – Deep Dive.

A work in which the double bass takes on the role of soloist opposite the orchestra is one of the rarities.

On the release DEEP DIVE with music by Kari Beate Tandberg, we find the work Dét with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Marius Flatby as soloist. The sore, fragile and heartfelt expression suits the big double bass well. In addition to the obviously virtuosic and offensive playing, the soloist’s voice offers percussive and whimsical instrumental techniques within a range of registers that few other instruments can accommodate.

The concert recording from 13 January 2023 includes in addition to the double bass concerto, the orchestral work Fabel. The latter is more dramatic in nature and repre-sents a musical fantasy world ”characterized by vigilance in the face of looming dan-gers and by battles being fought”, as described in the program introduction. Or it can illustrate the earth as an organism – its internal energy and external forces of nature.

The chamber work Porphyry Imitations contrasts the two orchestral works. Performers by Ingvild Habbestad; violin and Joachim Kwetzinsky; piano. The grainy pattern of the volcanic rock rhombic porphyry forms the starting point for the work’s musical associa-tions. This is also a recording from a previous concert in the NRK Store Studio in 2017.

Kari Beate Tandberg (b. 1958) is trained as a composer and pianist from the Norwegian Academy of Music. She presented her PhD through the National Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (2007). As a composer and research fellow, she has focused on how visual impressions and impulses can form the basis for a sonorous, musical expression. Her compositions have been performed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, The Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Ensemble Ernst, Cikada String Quartet and Nordic Voices among others. Her works have been presented in Japan, Germany, Scandinavia and broadcasted by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).

Kari Beate Tandberg has received numerous grants, including the Norwegian Government Grant for composers (Art Council Norway). In 1995 she received 1st prize in the international Fanny Mendelssohn competition. She has been represented in Nordic Music Days (NMD), Young Nordic Music (UNM) and the European Contemporary Composers Orchestra (ECCO). Her album “Modes and Moves” was released in 2016.