Looking on Darkness is the debut CD of accordionist

Frode Haltli Frode Haltli (born 15 May 1975 in Levanger Municipality), is a Norwegian accordion player. Biography Haltli started to play the accordion at the age of seven and over the following few years he won several national competitions and scholarship ...

, released on

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New Series in 2002. The CD received a 'Norwegian Grammy' (

Spellemannprisen The Spellemannprisen (also referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards) is a Norwegian music award ceremony presented by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry#Local associations, IFPI Norge and :no:FONO, FONO. It was first awarded i ...

) in the category Contemporary Music, as well as the French 'Prix Gus Viseur 2003'. In addition to Haltli the CD features the

Vertavo String Quartet Vertavo String Quartet is a Norwegian group founded in Hamar in 1984. The four women forming the quartet are Øyvor Volle, Annabelle Meare, Berit Cardas, and Bjørg Lewis. They appeared on the album ''A Portrait of Jon Larsen ''A Portrait of Jon ...

on one of the tracks. The CD is produced by

Manfred Eicher Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records. Life and career Eicher was born in Lindau, Germany. He studied music at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He started as a double-bass player of classi ...

Track listing

* Bent Sørensen: Looking on Darkness (2000) * PerMagnus Lindborg: Bombastic SonoSofisms (1996) * Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje: gagaku variations, for accordion and string quartet (2001) *

Magnus Lindberg Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and the London Philharmonic Orchestra's composer-in-residence from 2014 to 2017. Ear ...

: Jeux d'anches (1990) *

Asbjørn Schaathun Asbjørn Schaathun (born 22 June 1961) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Career Schaathun studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London and IRCAM in Paris. Schaathun founded the Norwegian Academy of Music's C ...

: Lament (2000)

External links

* 'Looking on Darkness' a
ECM Records' homepage
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