Dag Magnus Narvesen: Quod est in nomine? I Schlippenbach, Narvesen, PMP Ensemble, Dahinden

DAG MAGNUS NARVESEN: QUOD EST IN NOMINE?
(World premiere)
Prague Music Performance
March 24 2024
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Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano
Dag Magnus Narvesen - drums and percussion
Roland Dahinden - conductor
PMP Ensemble
Marcel Bárta - sax, clarinet, Martin Debřička - sax, clarinet, Pavel Zlámal - sax, clarinet, Pavel Hrubý - bass clarinet, Štěpán Janoušek - trombone, Didrik Ingvaldsen trumpet, Ladislav Kubát - trumpet, Radim Hanousek - bass clarinet, Petr Tichý - double bass, Kateřina Vacková - double bass, Antonín Procházka - drums and percussion, Štěpán Hon - drums and percussion
Quod est in nomine? is a piece which serves as a framework for exploring the interplay between a chamber ensemble and an improvising duo - Norwegian composer and percussionist Dag Magnus Narvesen and the legendary German free jazz pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. With some open parts, and some more strictly written parts (for the ensemble), it moves between different modes and moods at the crossroads of both preconceived and spontaneous musical material. The conductor has been given more agency through not only providing an opening for conducted improvisation, but also enabling him to insert parts of the composed material ad libitum, defying the temporal limitation of the score itself. In other words, many relationships are invited into the negotiation of the musical moment: The small and the large ensemble; the conductor and his instrument; and the composed and the improvised parts.
Director: © Marek Bouda